Not content with paving over the Rose Garden lawn, Donald Trump is now insisting that all federal buildings in the nation’s capital must meet his ye-olde design standards.

Trump signed a presidential order on Thursday titled ‘Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again’ to ensure that courthouses and government office buildings in Washington, D.C., are to his liking—and stick with the White House aesthetic.

His order complained that the Design Excellence Program established in 1994 while Bill Clinton was president resulted in federal buildings that “sometimes” impressed the “architectural elite” but not the American people. “Many of these new Federal buildings are not even visibly identifiable as civic buildings,” he stated.

The president now wants federal buildings to “embrace classic

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