Trump Is Reportedly Considering Paving Over the Historic White House Rose Garden

Designers have “drafted options for how to remake the surface of the Rose Garden,” with conversations taking place regarding which materials would make the most sense to utilize and the “possibility of installing hardwood floors for dancing.”

Despite its name, the garden more closely resembles an open lawn lined with rose bushes and other plants rather than a traditional more sprawling garden. Per the Times, “The roses, apparently, will stay.”

While the administration has yet to comment on the record about specific plans for the Rose Garden, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung released a more general statement outlining Trump's intentions to modify the building.

“The White House has not been given any tender, loving care in many decades, so President Trump is taking necessary steps in order to preserve and restore the greatness and glory of ‘the People’s House,’” he said.

This is not surprising at all.

He is such a trashy fucker.

Where have I heard this before?

I noticed, during his meetings with visiting leaders, that he has installed large gilded mirrors and festooned the mantel with large gilded vases or statues. There are very ornate flags with streamers. The walls are covered with portraits, with no attention to aesthetics. It all looks crowded and tasteless, like if Borat were president.

Likely this proposed patio will be fitted out with tacky fountains, maybe even a statue of Trump. Trump can host events and import his Mar A Lago crowd where they can dance to YMCA as their leader does his double jerk dance.

I can't imagine Trump is someone who enjoys the beauty of nature, the smell of plants and mosses, the chirps of birds and crickets.

While he is firing 200,000 federal workers.

[quote]Designers have “drafted options for how to remake the surface of the Rose Garden,”

I hope they’ve also drafted options for how to stay in business after they don’t get paid.

R4 He also has a framed photo of his mug shot hanging in the OO hallway.

Separate story but my late boss did a somersault in the Rose Garden when he went to an event during the Carter Administration. RIP, friend.

[quote]I hope they’ve also drafted options for how to stay in business after they don’t get paid

He's spending our money, not his, of course they'll get paid.

Can’t wait until this asshole keels over and dies.

He also plans to build a ballroom for the White House.

I will NOT be balling him there. Or anywhere else.

You and me both, r10. You and me both.

He should be fucking ashamed. He has no shame, though.

[quote]There are very ornate flags with streamers. The walls are covered with portraits, with no attention to aesthetics. It all looks crowded and tasteless, like if Borat were president.

I simply cannot understand why New York Society never took to Trump.

"I hope they’ve also drafted options for how to stay in business after they don’t get paid."

No one has to worry about getting paid. The materials will "fall off a truck" in true Trump fashion.

The free labor will be supplied by inmatesxxxx, er check that, "patients" from one of RFK's "wellness farms." Heavy construction work will be part of their "therapy."

As we speak, Trump is drawing up plans for an entirely new city, Trumpgermania. It will be the grandest city ever, with the biggest, most beautiful collection of buildings to rival the skyline of NYC (for which we all know Trump was responsible). Millions of happy laborers from the wellness farms will be utilized to build this veritable heaven on earth.

He's out of his fucking mind.

Everything Trump touches dies. Including us.

People need to stop speaking about him like he's not batshit crazy.

It would be cool if they could squeeze in a Ferris wheel and miniature golf.

THIS will surely bring down the price of eggs!

Eye stard new White How game. Eye shoot ping ball from meye poosey thru Obal Orfice Windo from fuckin rose gardin!

Donnie would do about 3 mean things a day. So I had Fred send him to military school until adulthood.

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

2029 is going to be a fun year undoing all this fucking insanity.

I BEG YOUR PARDON, I never promised you this Rose Garden.

He's an unfit moron. Just die.

The last Trump admin tore out every bit of historically significant landscaping and replaced it with insipid garden center plantings. There's nothing worth preserving there anymore.

^ That's not true.

^ um yeah it is.

"Let Dtrump be Dtrump"!! It's not the "AMERICAN CITIZENS HOUSE", its Dtrump house!

THEY voted for him, let the fat asshole do what he wants.

On one hand, I think this is more Dump Noise Machine crap to get everyone all spun up and get attention, on the other hand, I could see the gimpy old fool have trouble walking across the lawn without stumbling, so he wants to pour concrete so he has less chance of falling on his fat ass.

I beg your pardon

"so he wants to pour concrete so he has less chance of falling on his fat ass."

But if he falls on concrete he'll increase his chances of breaking a hip, a perilous condition for someone of his vintage and girth.

Yup. Fattie can't walk

R29 You know nothing about the Rose Garden and the renovations that were carried out in 2021

Notice that we didn't hear a peep about the Rose Garden all during the Bush administration. No attempt to correct any wrongs. You know why? Because the renovations were correctly and expertly done.

Educate yourself.

A rosebush doesn’t live 60 years. I deplore what he’s doing, but it is one of the more reversible of his stupid acts.

Estimated cost of Trump's plans for the rose garden, per the NYT: $100 million.

Which means it will cost at least double that.

Quite the fiscal conservative, he is.

Can’t we just pave right over him?

At R35 I meant to write: "Notice that we didn't hear a peep about the Rose Garden all during the Biden administration. "

Sorry about that.

Who's he burying in that backyard?

[quote] A rosebush doesn’t live 60 years. I deplore what he’s doing, but it is one of the more reversible of his stupid acts.

What future President is going to want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to undo this travesty?

This is going to be permanent.

Maybe destroying the Rose Garden will cause the American public to uprise.

And, then, they can rename the White House as "Kremlin West".

Don't worry, Ivana. I only bury my ex-wives in the best places: the maintenance yard of my golf clubs.

I save my back yards for swimming pools and putting greens.

This is of a severity necessary to cancel my candlelight supper.

Pardon us while we spin in our caskets.

^^^^Jackie on Assistance and Bunny Mellon.

Is that John Kennedy, Jr. in OP's photo?

Looking forward to the gold plated toilet.

Bump for original thread.

It would be possible to restore the garden to its original state even if Trump does put in a patio. He will not be president forever.

He's basically announcing ,"I can't walk on grass!"

Pave paradise and put up a parking lot

Next up: The Lincoln Bedroom will be upgraded to the "Trump Trophy Room."

Vulgarian

I imagine the decorating within the WH is up to the current occupant, which can be easily corrected by the next occupant. The White House is a National Historic Landmark, which means it must be preserved. Why is Trump being allowed to make these changes to the grounds, and plan to build a tacky Mar A Lago ballroom? The man is like The Blob, just rolling over and consuming everything.

I look forward to the future date when all vestiges of Trumpism are torn down gleefully, much like the Russians and Germans did when they triumped with their regime changes, post tsar and Hitlerism.

[quote] New Photos Show Latest as White House Rose Garden Is Bulldozed, Paved Over as Part of President Donald Trump's Renovation Plan

The historic White House Rose Garden looks almost unrecognizable as renovations are underway.

New photos reveal just how different the area looks nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump began their White House alterations on June 9.

What was once the grass center square of the Rose Garden is completely gone, as gravel now sits on top of the area, with bulldozers and other construction equipment nearby.

Other photos, which were obtained by Town and Country Magazine, show dirt being moved by bulldozers, as well as workers carrying equipment and other items to the central area.

Some greenery remains, however, as the original hedges around the Rose Garden could still be seen bordering the area.

The most recent photographs differ from images taken at the beginning of the renovations. Those photos initially showed a grassy area being dug up and parts of a limestone border — installed by Melania, 55, during her husband’s first term in office — being moved in order to lay down a concrete surface within the border.

Donald, 79, previously explained his reasoning for alerting the White House area in a March interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham.

“You know, we use [the Rose Garden] for press conferences, and it doesn’t work because the people fall,” he said at the time.

"The terrain can be wet, and the soft ground can be an issue for some," Trump added. "Women, with the high heels, it just didn’t work.”

At the start of the renovations, a White House official described the new construction as a "restoration" and told PEOPLE that Donald and Melania "have deep respect for the history of the White House and for the Rose Garden."

"This restoration to the Rose Garden preserves the beauty of the space and builds on the work done in 2020, with a focus on enhancing practical use and guest experience for those attending special events," the official added.

Still, many have criticized the new renovations, sharing their thoughts on social media.

“To remove Kennedy’s Rose Garden is removing a piece of our White House history. And for a patio," one person wrote in a post on X.

Another said on the social media platform, “White House Rose Garden gone. Absolutely crazy.”

Melania previously faced significant backlash when she initially redid the Rose Garden in 2020. At the time, she made a rare public statement, saying that the “Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colorful blossoming of roses."

The remarks came after NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss described her botanical vision as “grim.”

Other current White House renovations are set to include the installation of a ballroom in the White House, per the Associated Press, as well as two new flag poles on the North and South Lawns.

Donald announced in April that he would be personally funding the work, telling reporters, “They’ve needed flagpoles for 200 years," despite the American flag and the POW/MIA flag flying atop the White House on a flagpole each day.