The White House’s security checkpoint is getting a modern makeover—if Trump’s design team allows it

For more than 20 years, anyone visiting the White House in Washington, D.C., has first stepped inside a trailer. Technically a temporary building, this trailer on the southeastern edge of the White House grounds is where visitors are screened for security. When there’s a big event, which is often, security screening bleeds out of the trailer into temporary tents, much to the chagrin of the U.S. Secret Service. “This has not been the best situation for those visitors coming to visit the White House. They’re outside. We cannot deploy all the technology we’d like to at all the different times, and it’s very limiting as one security screening lane,” said Andy Stohs, senior adviser for technical operations with the Secret Service. [Image: cfa.gov] His comments came during a formal presentation of the recently released conceptual design for an updated security screening facility on the White House grounds. The facility would support security screening for