Trump's barbaric white lie hides a ghastly past

Donald Trump has a problem with the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. For over 150 years, its French Second Empire granite has stood elegantly next to the White House. I’ve been in that building numerous times. To me and many others, it’s an architectural marvel.

But Trump looks at that historic stone and sees a flaw. He wants it painted white, which is his wish for everything else to make America great again.

At a projected taxpayer cost of more than $7.5 million, Trump is attempting...