By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
President Trump has become obsessed with revamping the FBI headquarters because he can’t stand looking at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington D.C.
“The building is terrible” a source cited Trump as saying, Axios reported. “It’s one of the brutalist-type buildings, you know, brutalist architecture.”
Brutalist architecture generally refers to buildings with exposed concrete.
“Honestly, I think it’s one of the ugliest buildings in the city,” Trump reportedly said.
The source said Trump, who is known for micro-managing building projects in the private sector, reportedly wants to do the same with the FBI building, treating it like a Trump tower project.
But those projects don’t have the same level of security required for an FBI building.
“POTUS has interest in the issue and has met with FBI officials, but more importantly the GSA [General Services Administration] team. GSA has concerns that the building can’t be rehabilitated particularly given the security requirements and has relayed that to him,” the White House told Axios of Trump’s plans to renovate.
The FBI has been searching for a new headquarters for years, but funding problems continue to delay the project.
