2026-04-11T20:46:53.032Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：贝琪·克莱因
3小时前
发布于 2026年4月11日，美国东部时间下午4:46
2026年4月9日拍摄的白宫附近的艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼。
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据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）获悉，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普私下提议为白宫旁一座华丽的联邦办公楼涂刷一种“含硅酸盐的魔法涂料”。但在对这座规模宏大的镀金时代建筑进行外部改造的关键投票前夕，专家小组警告称，这种所谓的魔法涂料可能与艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼的花岗岩外墙不相兼容。
在第二任期内，特朗普花费大量时间按照自己的审美品味改造白宫和华盛顿特区，此次他提议将这座华丽的办公楼粉刷成亮白色。
负责监管联邦建筑改造的美国美术委员会此前已被特朗普的忠实支持者填满，该委员会将于周四首次对该方案进行审议并发表意见。
提交给委员会的效果图展示了两种潜在方案：一种是将整栋建筑粉刷成白色，另一种是将建筑主体刷白，但保留裸露的地下室和半地下室的原有花岗岩外观。
白宫在周四会议前提交给委员会的材料中称，这座现存建筑“自19世纪末建成以来基本无人照管”，并指出花岗岩表面存在污渍、因“多年来维护不力或根本未进行维护以及整体疏于照料”造成的磨损和裂缝。
但反对总统改造计划的两家保护组织警告称，推进这项粉刷工程是非法的，而且这种涂料实际上无法在艾森豪威尔行政办公大楼的表面发挥作用。
去年11月特朗普在福克斯新闻采访中提出粉刷这座建筑的想法后，华盛顿保护联盟和文化遗产合作伙伴提起诉讼，要求华盛顿特区美国地区法院阻止特朗普和联邦官员对该建筑进行任何改造，直至其完成标准审批流程。
据CNN获得的一份文件显示，特朗普私下声称这种“魔法涂料”能够“强化石材、防止渗水、避免污渍、易于涂刷且几乎无需再次粉刷”。该文件详细介绍了保护组织开展的专家分析结果。
在此次分析中，这些组织召集了25名未具名的专家，他们“曾主持过美国一些最著名石材建筑的大型修复项目，涉及矿物硅酸盐涂料的使用，其中包括白宫和美国国会大厦”，同时还邀请了一些“曾参观过矿物硅酸盐涂料生产商的海外生产设施并接受过该涂料使用培训”的专家。
这些专家得出结论称，“矿物硅酸盐涂料不适用于花岗岩”，并解释称这种石材无法与这类涂料发生化学结合。他们补充道，对花岗岩进行底漆处理会造成“永久性损坏”，而且这种涂料“无法强化花岗岩或提升其结构耐久性”。它也无法起到防止污渍的作用，反而“污渍在涂料表面可能比在现有花岗岩表面更加明显”。
文化遗产合作伙伴准备的一份幻灯片演示文稿已提交给特朗普政府，其中提出了升级这座建筑的替代方案，包括“采用保护级清洁方案”、整修铁艺制品、更换照明设备、安装窗膜以提亮外立面以及新增景观设计。
CNN已联系白宫，就这些保护组织的调查结果寻求置评。
保护组织的法律诉讼辩称，特朗普政府在未完成必要的环境和历史保护审查的情况下，不得推进粉刷工程。这些组织指出，绕过这些审查可能会造成无法挽回的损坏。
艾森豪威尔大楼于1888年完工，最初是国务院、战争部和海军部的办公场所，如今为总统幕僚团队提供辅助办公空间，其中包括副总统办公室、国家安全委员会和管理和预算办公室。大楼内部设有553间装饰华丽的镀金房间、青铜楼梯栏杆、手绘瓷砖、雕刻木质装饰、彩色玻璃圆形大厅和复杂的铸铁构件。
但这座建筑独特的法国第二帝国风格从建成之初就颇具争议。据拜登政府白宫的资料显示，该建筑的建造耗时约17年，完工时“第二帝国风格已经不再流行，（建筑师阿尔弗雷德·马利特的）杰作被善变的维多利亚时代人士视为仅仅是对过去古怪建筑品味的尴尬纪念”。
带领游客游览白宫建筑群的导游经常会提及作家马克·吐温的话，据传他将这座建筑描述为“美国最丑的建筑”。
Trump wants to cover a White House office building with ‘magic paint.’ Experts advise against it
2026-04-11T20:46:53.032Z / CNN
By Betsy Klein
3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2026, 4:46 PM ET
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, near the White House, is seen on April 9, 2026.
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President Donald Trump privately advocated for painting an ornate federal office building next to the White House with a “magic paint with silicate,” CNN has learned. But ahead of a key vote on exterior changes to the sprawling Gilded Age structure, a panel of experts is warning the so-called magic paint could be incompatible with the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s granite exterior.
Trump, who has spent significant time during his second term shaping the White House and Washington to his aesthetic taste, is proposing painting the ornate office building a bright white.
The Commission of Fine Arts, which oversees changes to federal buildings and has been stacked with Trump loyalists, on Thursday will review and weigh in on the plans for the first time.
Renderings submitted to the commission show two potential options: one with the entire structure painted white and one that paints the structure white but leaves the building’s exposed basement and sub-basement in its original granite.
The existing structure “has been largely neglected since its construction in the late 1800s,” the White House said in materials sent to the commission ahead of Thursday’s meeting, pointing to staining on the granite, abrasions and cracks from “years of poor or non-existent exterior maintenance, and general disregard.”
But a pair of preservationist groups challenging the president’s changes is warning that moving forward with the painting project is illegal — and that the paint won’t actually work on the EEOB’s surface.
After Trump floated painting the building in a Fox News interview last November, the DC Preservation League and Cultural Heritage Partners filed a lawsuit asking the US District Court for the District of Columbia to stop Trump and federal officials from making any changes to the building until they go through a standard review process.
Trump has privately claimed the “magic paint” would “strengthen the stone, keep water out, prevent staining, be easy to apply, and rarely require painting,” according to a document obtained by CNN that details the results of an expert analysis conducted by the preservationist groups.
For that analysis, the groups assembled 25 unnamed experts “who have overseen major restoration projects involving mineral silicate paints on some of the United States’ most prominent stone buildings, including the White House and the U.S. Capitol,” along with some experts who have “visited overseas manufacturing facilities of mineral silicate paint producers to receive training” in how to use the paint.
The experts concluded that “mineral silicate paints are not suited for use on granite,” explaining that the stone does not chemically bond with this type of paint. Priming the granite, they added, would incur “permanent damage,” and the paint would “not strengthen granite or improve its structural durability.” It would also fail to prevent staining, which, they said, “is likely to be much more visible on paint than on the existing granite surface.”
A slide deck prepared by Cultural Heritage Partners and shared with the Trump administration offers alternative solutions to upgrade the building, including “a conservation-grade cleaning program,” refinishing ironwork, new lighting, the installation of window film to brighten the façade, and new landscaping.
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment on the groups’ findings.
The preservationists’ legal challenge argues the Trump administration cannot move forward with painting without going through required the environmental and historic preservation reviews. Going around those reviews could result in irreversible damage, the groups argue.
Completed in 1888, the Eisenhower building originally housed the State, War and Navy departments, but now serves as ancillary office space for the president’s staff, including the Office of the Vice President, the National Security Council and the Office of Management and Budget. The building’s interior includes 553 ornately gilded rooms, bronze stair balusters, hand-painted tiles, carved wooden fixtures, stained glass rotundas and intricate cast iron.
But the building’s unusual French Second Empire style has been controversial since its inception. It took roughly 17 years to build, and by the time it was done, “the Second Empire style had fallen from favor, and (architect Alfred) Mullett’s masterpiece was perceived by capricious Victorians as only an embarrassing reminder of past whims in architectural preference,” according to the Biden White House.
Guides leading tourists around the White House complex are often heard quoting the author Mark Twain, who reportedly described it as “the ugliest building in America.”
