Amid the ongoing and highly contested renovations to the East Wing, the new head of the federal arts commission is hoping to please the president with new plans to replace the White House’s iconic columns with something flashier. Trump appointed Rodney Mims Cook, Jr. to be the new chairman of the federal Commission of Fine Arts at the end of January. The chairman told The Washington Post in a story published Sunday that he is proposing to replace the columns adorning the White House’s entrance to match Trump’s design preferences. The current columns are Ionic, which are slender and feature an elegant scroll-like capital. Cook wants to change them to Corinthian columns, which are more ornate and align with the president’s gaudier style.