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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,475 posts)
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 08:52 PM Aug 2025

White House Rose Garden Patio Now Features Umbrellas from Mar-a-Lago but still looks tacky

The White House Rose Garden is almost back in business following a summer of renovations, and press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered reporters a close-up look at the new patio before the official reopening ceremony.

On Tuesday, Aug. 19, Leavitt took the White House press pool on a field trip to see the Rose Garden while President Donald Trump was playing his own music selection over the loudspeakers — something he's been known to do at Mar-a-Lago events.

While songs like "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum and Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" played, Leavitt answered reporters' questions about the most significant updates to the Rose Garden since the Kennedy administration — including why it looks so much like the president's West Palm Beach club, and whether first lady Melania Trump is satisfied with the final product.

One of the first questions revolved around the patio's viral yellow-and-white-striped umbrellas, which look identical to the umbrellas at Mar-a-Lago and have been lampooned in countless social media posts for resembling a smattering of chain restaurant patios.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-rose-garden-patio-171422940.html

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White House Rose Garden Patio Now Features Umbrellas from Mar-a-Lago but still looks tacky (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 OP
Entire place should be bulldozed when he croaks and rebuilt to remove his & her stench. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Aug 2025 #1
Soulless and vulgar. How fitting. Harker Aug 2025 #2
Hesitately saying I think they're cheery AND they Never Should have Covered the grass, Took Away many of the.. electric_blue68 Aug 2025 #3
Looks like a food court in a deserted mall. Polly Hennessey Aug 2025 #4
Historically, the presence of large lawn areas was considered a status symbol indicating great wealth, Totally Tunsie Aug 2025 #5
The word uncouth comes to mind. nt cliffside Aug 2025 #6
The Slovene backworker is looking rough (and orange like Motherfucker) Celerity Aug 2025 #7
gawd Skittles Aug 2025 #8

electric_blue68

(27,329 posts)
3. Hesitately saying I think they're cheery AND they Never Should have Covered the grass, Took Away many of the..
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 10:43 PM
Aug 2025

roses, some of the trees, added the chairs, tables, and their umbrellas over all in the first place!

Rip most of the concrete up (hopefully!) after Jan 20, 2029. Re-sod. Re-rose bushes! New big sapling trees as possible: ?magnolias, ?crab apples, etc
:lawngrass: emoji 🌹🌹🌷🌷🌹🌳👍


Totally Tunsie

(12,028 posts)
5. Historically, the presence of large lawn areas was considered a status symbol indicating great wealth,
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:09 PM
Aug 2025

the thought being that if one were wealthy, they had acreage that had no intended purpose except to exist. Consequently, trumpie has chosen the path completely counter to the original sign of wealth. Figures!
He's tacky as hell.

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