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Eugene

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Sat Aug 30, 2025, 10:39 PM Aug 2025

Trump lashes out at Rose Garden worker for damaging stone in controversial redesign - and shares video of the culprit: '

Source: The Independent

Trump lashes out at Rose Garden worker for damaging stone in controversial redesign - and shares video of the culprit: ‘Stupid’

Mike Bedigan
Sunday 31 August 2025 00:36 BST

President Donald Trump has lashed out at a “stupid” contractor working on his controversial redesign of the White House Rose Garden for damaging a piece of stone, posting a video of the incident on social media.

The president announced on Truth Social Saturday that while “as a Builder” he had “love and respect for contractors,” the person responsible for the mistake would “never work at the White House again.”

Alongside a short surveillance footage clip online, filmed on “the finest security equipment anywhere,” Trump shared a lengthy anecdote which led up to the catching of the culprit.

“I used, at the White House, the most beautiful marble and stone available anywhere. Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder,” the president crowed. “As everyone knows, I built many GREAT Buildings, and other things, over the years.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rose-garden-contractor-video-b2817155.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-lashes-rose-garden-worker-211932584.html

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Trump lashes out at Rose Garden worker for damaging stone in controversial redesign - and shares video of the culprit: ' (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2025 OP
Ive seen Taco Bells with better patios Johonny Aug 2025 #1
If I posted what I truly thought of the buildings he's mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #2
Watch one of his shizzy buildings implode struggle4progress Aug 2025 #3

struggle4progress

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3. Watch one of his shizzy buildings implode
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 03:08 PM
Aug 2025

Inside Edition
Feb 17, 2021

Once a symbol of the high-rolling life of Donald Trump, the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City has come crashing down. The building was reduced to rubble Wednesday with 3,000 sticks of dynamite. The crumbling building became a hazard and had to go. Hundreds braved frigid temperatures, gathering on the streets and on the beach, to watch the implosion. A series of loud detonations came shortly after 9 a.m., before the hotel came tumbling down as many cheered with glee

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