{"id":1488,"date":"2025-10-02T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenhwhite.com\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:46:12","slug":"trump-classical-architecture-mandates-undermine-americas-history-says-congresswoman-titus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenhwhite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/trump-classical-architecture-mandates-undermine-americas-history-says-congresswoman-titus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump classical architecture mandates “undermine America's history” says congresswoman Titus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump<\/a> is doing “what dictators do” by passing executive orders that prescribe classical architecture for federal buildings, congresswoman Dina Titus tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m a strong believer that architecture is the way that you display many of your cultural values,” Titus told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

The Democratic representative from Nevada’s first district has spearheaded attempts to counter Trump’s moves to make classical and traditional architecture “the preferred styles” for civic buildings in the US.<\/p>\n

During Trump’s first term, she put the Democracy in Design Act<\/a> before Congress, which seeks to codify the 1962 Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture standards that give local areas power over design decisions for government buildings.<\/p>\n

“He’s undermining our history”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Titus’s bill was recently revived after Trump reinitiated his Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again executive order<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Republican politicians have said they will put forward legislation codifying Trump’s executive orders.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Dezeen, Titus argued that Trump’s executive orders and attempts to codify them undermine the diversity of the United States and its people.<\/p>\n

“I don’t believe we should all build to look the same, because we all aren’t the same, and our history and cultures and food and music all aren’t the same,” said Titus.<\/p>\n

“It fits right in with the whole undermining of America’s story that Trump is doing, whether it’s the museums or the national parks, the bases and the statues.”<\/p>\n

“He’s undermining our history and rewriting it, and this fits right in with that whole approach that he’s been taking, which I think is very much authoritarianism. It’s what dictators do, not what we do in a democracy.”<\/p>\n