the New York Times at the time that the order was"an effort to use culture to send coded messages about white supremacy and political hegemony," likely referring to the right-wing's promotion of traditional Western architecture as superior to other styles.
"We will get rid of bad and ugly buildings and return to the magnificent classical style of Western civilization," he said in aWagner says Trump's embrace of classical architecture echoes the right-wing war on modernism that began in the 1980s. As part of that backlash, mainstream traditionalists and far-right, reactionary opponents of modernism found themselves aligned.
Those who argued that people prefer traditional designs, including the influential modernist critic and architect Leon Krier, also promoted the idea that American design was"degenerate." Notably, Adolf Hitler and, characterized modern and Bauhaus architecture as"degenerate."