A “giant tarp” printed to resemble the columns it now covers has been quietly draped over an area of the White House one Trump appointee wants to redo so it will resemble Mar-a-Lago, witnesses reported on Thursday.
Scaffolding at the White House’s North Portico entrance was covered Wednesday as construction crews continued a makeover of the 200-year-old structure, according to multiple reporters on the scene.
A White House official told MS NOW correspondent Vaughn Hillyard the draping is for “standard stonework and crack repairs” — and the plan is “presently to keep the columns white.”
Descriptions of the tarp varied.
“A giant tarp with a print of the White House North Lawn entrance is now being draped over the construction work being done on the columns,” Taylor Popielarz wrote on X.
PBS NewsHour correspondent Liz Landers wrote that workers had dropped “a semi-transparent covering over the side closest to the West Wing.”
“It reveals the President’s new design,” Kellie Meyer, a NewsNation White House correspondent, wrote on X.