[roenxi]

While opinionated, there is nothing weird about liking classical architecture or powerful people imposing their artistic preferences.

I'm not sure how anyone could manage to spin promoting classical architecture as some sort of unpleasant scheme, but I'm sure someone is going to try. The stuff is beautiful. At some point there has to be some admission that Trump isn't wrong about literally everything.

[qsort]

> restrictions on the architectural design

That's not the equivalent of saying 'classical architecture is beautiful', that's the equivalent of saying 'no architecture except classical architecture is beautiful'.

Is St. Peter's Basilica ugly because it is Baroque? Is Notre-Dame ugly because it is Gothic?

Come on, far from me to espouse the "neoclassical bad" twitter-tier nonsense take, but the claim that only neoclassical should be allowed is... weird, Trump or no Trump.

[skewart]

The weird part was banning people from building anything that isn’t neoclassical. The order wasn’t promoting neoclassicism as much as it was attacking everything else.

If the Trump administration’s approach was just to build a lot of neoclassical buildings nobody would have cared.