Less than three months ago, the world watched the Trump administration reduce the White House’s historic East Wing to a pile of rubble to begin construction on a massive new ballroom. But it looks like the dust from that demolition will have barely settled before Trump starts another project to turn the presidential residence into his own personal real estate development endeavor.

This week, Trump and the head architect behind the ballroom construction, Shalom Baranes, revealed several heretofore unknown plans for the nation’s most symbolic building. They include multiple proposals that would add considerable architectural bulk to a White House that’s already set to be burdened by a 90,000-square-foot East Wing (for context, that’s nearly double the square footage of the White House’s main residence). 

Trump’s ostentatious vision for the White House feels alarmingly similar to the ethos behind America’s suburban monstrosity, the McMansion: Maximizing for square footage by adding a hodgepodge of extensions,........

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