‘We Want to Have a Good Standard’: Trump on Plan to Revamp Federal Architecture

President Donald Trump on Sept. 2 spoke about an executive order he signed last week to order the use of the classical style in federal building architecture, saying his goal was to set “a good standard.” “We want to see beautiful buildings,” Trump said during a White House press conference in response to a question from NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet. “We want to have a good standard. We’re building something here.” In an Aug. 28 executive order to “[make] federal architecture beautiful again,” Trump ordered the federal government to favor classical architecture in designing, renovating, or reducing new or existing federal buildings....