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Work has begun on the presidents plan to pave over the grass in the Rose Garden lawn.Bulldozers have begun ripping up the grass and digging the foundation for a new flagpole in the White House Rose Garden lawn, making good on President Donald Trumps plan to install a Mar-a-Lago-style patio.
Employees with the National Park Service, which maintains the White House grounds, began work Monday on the project. They expect to finish sometime during the first half of August, the Associated Press reported.
Trump walked over to inspect the work and told reporters he was installing two beautiful flagpoles paid for by Trump because the grounds have needed flagpoles for 200 years, according to the AP. The White House already flies the American flag and the POW/MIA flag on the roof every day.
The president had announced in mid-February he wanted to remove the Rose Garden lawn, which is often the site of bill-signing ceremonies, press conferences, award presentations, and formal dinners. He later explained that the reason was because women had trouble walking in the wet grass in high heels.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-bulldozes-the-white-house-rose-garden/
orangecrush
(28,274 posts)OKIsItJustMe
(21,709 posts)Obviously, on the list of awful things Trump has done in his second term, adding tacky gold trinkets to the Oval Office ranks pretty low. But the changes, and the taunting ways Trump and his team have shown them off, reflect the broader themes of his second term. Its like Trump has cast himself in an HGTV show about how to make your home reflect your kinglike abuses of power and quest for revenge.
B.See
(7,751 posts)to bulldoze everything TRUMP.
OKIsItJustMe
(21,709 posts)During the first term, he decided that he didnt like the way historic feet had worn the marble stair treads on the portico. So, he had them replaced. That history is lost.
Somethings, when they are broken can neither be fixed, nor replaced.
Today, hes destroying environmental legislation. Put it back in place in 4 years
thats not the same.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1150661
5 June 2024 Climate and Environment
We are playing Russian roulette with our planet, said Mr. Guterres. We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell, and the truth is we have control of the wheel.
18 months to save the world
Pulling back from the brink is still just about possible, he continued, but only if we fight harder. It all depends on decisions taken by political leaders during this decade and especially in the next 18 months.
The need for climate action is unprecedented, but so is the opportunity, not just to deliver on climate but on economic prosperity and sustainable development, Mr. Guterres explained.
Lets see June of 2024 + 18 months = December of 2025
Botany
(76,371 posts)
Walleye
(43,807 posts)We can see now that what he loves to do is waste our money. He thinks every dollar in the US treasury belongs to him.
Botany
(76,371 posts)The Architect (Sears) was very good @ bringing Jackie Kennedys idea to life.
A relaxing green experience where the President and others could meet and talk
in a less formal setting. The head of construction went onto to become the head of
the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, the design used the shadows of trees and columns
to make a wonderful walk way from the living quarters to the west wing, it used to
have roses who went back to Mary Lincoln, it did not need to be fixed up, and it was
one of the first knot gardens in America.
When Krasnov had work done the first time they broke the drainage system and it had
to be dug up and fixed.
This is shameful waste of money and it replaces class with crass tacky crap.
Burning America to the ground.
Walleye
(43,807 posts)calimary
(89,028 posts)He makes me think of an unruly kid who simply MUST leave his fingerprints all over the place. And preferably dirty ones, too. Fingermarks on the walls, woodwork, all the windows and glassware, paintings, elegant wallpaper, and scuffs and splinters everywhere. Gotta leave his mark.
If I were the incoming First Lady, Id have a special historical curator advise me on what bits of trump crap to keep (for historical purposes), and all the rest to throw OUT. Id have all those excessive portraits moved so the presentation was back to the way Biden had it. Some if not all of them could be displayed elsewhere. Id restore the Rose Garden as close to the way Jackie Kennedy had it, and install a special permanent plaque in her honor, commemorating the original garden she had installed when she was First Lady.
And dont need a ballroom. Maybe a gallery featuring the relocated portraits plus examples of original art from some of the most historic and distinguished painters and sculptors in American history. Might have some works lent by the most significant American museums on a regular basis.
Escurumbele
(4,019 posts)delisen
(7,212 posts)Pathetic really. Wasted money.
We will have a citizen makeover of the White House ala Jackie Kennedy when he is gone. A great project. We can all participate and be part of a national project.
can piss on his grave.
Magoo48
(6,688 posts)C_U_L8R
(48,849 posts)Fuck that guy.
kentuck
(115,092 posts)It's really old and needs a replacement more suitable for royalty and visits from princes and kings.
Dave Bowman
(6,621 posts)durablend
(8,896 posts)Going to likely need to do it (if) when he vacates anyway.
DFW
(59,729 posts)And yeah, we'll all know who, alright.
hamsterjill
(16,965 posts)He has no regard for history and precedent and decorum. Yeah, I know - I'm stating the obvious.
Kid Berwyn
(22,889 posts)...when he's pushing up daisies should be a national holiday.
Dave Bowman
(6,621 posts)Passages
(3,986 posts)Baitball Blogger
(51,694 posts)made in China.
Yep. It's the world we live in.
Bayard
(28,531 posts)Think of all the presidents giving speeches there, and other special occasions that took place. He wants to destroy American history, and write his own. I bet one of the flags he puts up will have his ugly mug on it.
Baitball Blogger
(51,694 posts)They will restore the Rose garden to its previous glory.
Bayard
(28,531 posts)rzemanfl
(31,106 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,313 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,569 posts)Ping Tung
(4,137 posts)FSogol
(47,524 posts)taxi
(2,676 posts)I would be very suspicious of any woman who had to ask me what shoes to wear. But come to think of it, my ex did ask that once, once.
kentuck
(115,092 posts)But the majority of the American people probably disagree with digging up the Rose Garden?
Use it against him politically.
elleng
(141,926 posts)surfered
(11,462 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,147 posts)...and we are the enemies of the (Trumpist) state.
dalton99a
(92,070 posts)hildegaard28
(792 posts)Evil, so he must destroy all beauty.
Initech
(107,399 posts)Initech
(107,399 posts)Fuck him!!!!
Moostache
(10,972 posts)FUCK ANYONE THAT EVER VOTED FOR HIM. AND FUCK THEM HARD!!!!
Initech
(107,399 posts)he is out of his mind, and having temper tantrums. We all know this. He is a weak scared felon, willing to take everything and everyone down with him. This is not a drill this is happening in real time.
I just listen to Simon Rosenberg a DU'er just posted his video. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220386184
Coolgoober
(231 posts)Turns to shit!
stillcool
(34,407 posts)my mind doesn't go that far out.
NoMoreRepugs
(11,798 posts)position of constantly having to defend himself or respond.
Evolve Dammit
(21,488 posts)nowforever
(586 posts)The ignorant bully, who was given total control and autonomy, is destroying everything and anything for two reasons to show that he can and because he derives pleasure from it.
JBTaurus83
(872 posts)"Trump walked over to inspect the work and told reporters he was installing two beautiful flagpoles paid for by Trump because the grounds have needed flagpoles for 200 years, according to the AP. The White House already flies the American flag and the POW/MIA flag on the roof every day."
This part reminds me of Dear Leader Kim in ridiculous pictures where he is "inspecting" some project or another in N Korea.
mdbl
(8,105 posts)What else would a criminal do?
milestogo
(22,549 posts)Dave Bowman
(6,621 posts)

Orrex
(66,669 posts)ReRe
(12,164 posts)That SOB is paving over HISTORY. I want to know where those roses are going. Would that we had a proper WH Press Corp who would ask that question. Of course, he had to do this when they are in full bloom. Could he not wait till the fall to do this?
That man is a POS!
Hekate
(100,132 posts)He (and /or Melania) called in some ham-handed landscapers to yank out everything beautiful and historic, install a concrete surround
Hes a vandal hes doing this on purpose to cause misery for others
ReRe
(12,164 posts)NoSheep
(8,314 posts)Hekate
(100,132 posts)Utter trash
electric_blue68
(25,807 posts)that area over.
Ruining a nice area of respite.
Eta
Googled it up (photos). Melanie removed a lot of the roses. Also took down a bunch of flowering trees.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,841 posts)The White House grounds has it's own staff of gardeners and landscape professionals and I read where they contract with 2 or 3 very high end nursery's in the DC area that supply the grounds with all manner of plants, including the roses.
Sure, what Trumpy did and will do is an insult, but the building and the grounds are still under the auspices of The National Park Service and the White House Historical Association.
They will modify it to a presidents taste within reason and tackiness, but every thing can be redone and put back like it was.
Hekate
(100,132 posts)There are just too many outrages to keep straight.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,841 posts)Of that you will get no argument from me!
The bullshit never ends with this dumbass.
Jill Biden replanted the Rose Garden.
We all know he's a POS with no heart. I hate the fucking guy, and all the rest of them.
Dave Bowman
(6,621 posts)🤢
Torchlight
(6,304 posts)Ministry of Arts will soon release photos of strong, optimistic, blonde haired and blue-eyed boys engaging in productive state activity.
Hekate
(100,132 posts). He later explained that the reason was because women had trouble walking in the wet grass in high heels.
IOW, hes having trouble walking in his high heels.
pandr32
(13,767 posts)He had said the White House was a dump.
ihaveaquestion
(4,394 posts)I go to a lot of estate sales and Orange Turd's taste reminds me of a lot of the things I find in the wealthier homes... ostentatious, gaudy and overvalued. I rarely buy anything other than kitchen or garden items in these places.
struggle4progress
(125,327 posts)sprinkleeninow
(22,103 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,319 posts)Grim Chieftain
(1,221 posts)Every freaking day is a new horror. Holy hell - enough!
dchill
(42,660 posts)Next, a little something for the Supreme Court building?
twodogsbarking
(17,569 posts)JCMach1
(29,082 posts)Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)In a few years.
artemisia1
(1,354 posts)Canada Kid
(257 posts)Plowing under the landscape to put up flagpoles is an absolute defamation of the regal splendor of the grounds of the White House, and by extension a shitting on all Americans everywhere. One flagpole should be reserved for Trump.
hadEnuf
(3,520 posts)especially in rows in front of government buildings?
Martin Eden
(15,358 posts)These new poles are needed for the Confederate and Nazi flags.
He's contemplating a 3rd pole for the Russian flag.
Figarosmom
(9,721 posts)This is disgraceful. First his wife destroys it to replace heirloom roses ( some sent during war for protection from France) snd put in common iceberg roses so it would be all white. Now tearing it all up to put in pretty much a parking lot. I wonder what hus thing is agai st the garden? Mar a Lago looks like a truck stop to me.
tanyev
(48,657 posts)
Mr.Bee
(1,630 posts)That property, the White House and Oval Office belongs to the American taxpayer !
Keepthesoulalive
(2,119 posts)The man is a walking destruction machine.
Retrograde
(11,375 posts)badhair77
(5,082 posts)He leaves every weekend. Now he wants to build a ballroom, for what? Just because he has one at Mar-a-Lago. People are suffering and hes spending uncontrollably. And he has no class and no taste.
riversedge
(79,347 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,889 posts)And now Traitor Trump goes by King Taco.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,841 posts)And Truman took up residence across the street in "Blair House"
It was necessary because the inside of the building was literally crumbling. These days it probably needs it again if for no other reason than the reported infestation of bugs and vermin and to bring the electrical and communications infrastructure in the walls up to 21st century standards. Make room for a proper, modern kitchen as well.
Not to mention the optics it would create.
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/collections/president-trumans-renovation
The next Democratic President should order the same thing, completely ripping out every shred of the stench that orange shitgibbon has stained that building with.
And then they could restore the Rose Garden and the entire grounds back to the way it should be.
I said the same thing during his first administration. They need to do this for the symbolism of ridding this nation of that asshole once and for all.


Just gut the place and rebuild it.


Do it. DO IT.
Xavier Breath
(6,470 posts)Gutted, indeed.
RoeVWade
(805 posts)nt^
Stinky The Clown
(68,920 posts)RandomNumbers
(19,056 posts)I have no other words that are printable.
Solly Mack
(96,317 posts)That's why all the gaudy gold in the oval. All the portraits of himself.
allegorical oracle
(6,165 posts)needs a ballroom.