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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,468 posts)
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:06 PM Jul 2025

Opera aficionado Melania has replaced the Whitehouse rose garden with a concrete slab

The White House Rose Garden is almost unrecognizable as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump continue their summer renovations.

A new photo taken on Tuesday, July 22, showed the large concrete slab that now rests where grass once covered the historic space, which was given a central lawn in 1961 at the request of President John F. Kennedy.

In a March interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, Trump explained the decision to put down concrete and design something more similar to a presidential patio.

“You know, we use [the Rose Garden] for press conferences, and it doesn’t work because the people fall,” he said. "The terrain can be wet, and the soft ground can be an issue for some... Women, with the high heels, it just didn’t work.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-rose-garden-lawn-154908855.html

The Beverly Hillbillies had more class than these two. (Yes, I know it was just a show)

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Opera aficionado Melania has replaced the Whitehouse rose garden with a concrete slab (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2025 OP
White trash pigs vapor2 Jul 2025 #1
I want to see her sing the role of Brunhilde. greatauntoftriplets Jul 2025 #2
They can sell trump White House "Merch" from there IcyPeas Jul 2025 #3
She should have put her husband under it. Turbineguy Jul 2025 #4
"They're lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut." Swede Jul 2025 #5
What a pity that in the entire WH complex, there was no other area suitable Totally Tunsie Jul 2025 #6

IcyPeas

(25,803 posts)
3. They can sell trump White House "Merch" from there
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:20 PM
Jul 2025

“The paving of the Rose Garden is well underway.” - Dispatch/photo from today’s White House radio pool reporter, Tamara Keith of NPR

Steve Herman (@w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy) 2025-07-23T20:38:12.000Z


Totally Tunsie

(12,024 posts)
6. What a pity that in the entire WH complex, there was no other area suitable
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 09:22 PM
Jul 2025

to hold press conferences and other events. One would think that Jedd Clampett and Co. could have used a nicely air-conditioned room for such extravaganzas. Hmmm, wasn't the Inauguration held inside? See, it works during the winter as well!

Dumb asses.

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