Architectural Critic : "Trump's to-be-realized Vision of Mar-A-Lago ON THE POTOMAC" may be realized at record development rate"

 Michael Kimmelman

Nov. 8

arts/design/east-wing-ballroom-trump.html

Discusses

Marbled Bathrooms (Lincoln bedroom)

Triumphal Arch

Giant gilded Trump Ballroom . . .

contrasts with original POTUS

George Washington's resistance to

building a presidential palace

that echoed VERSAILLES.

Other presidential "Re-Modelers"

included Thomas Jefferson,

Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt,

FDR, Truman, JFK