White House Rose Garden bulldozed as work starts paving it over

[progree]

Source: Newsweek via msn.com

Construction has commenced on projects at the White House ordered by President Donald Trump, with the Rose Garden having been bulldozed as work begins to pave it over.

. . .

On Monday of this week, reporters noticed that work had begun in the Rose Garden.

The Associated Press reported that the project will be completed in approximately two months, citing a White House official who was not authorized to comment publicly.

. . .

Images show the process of paving over the Rose Garden, first with construction crews digging up the grass, then poles and mud in the garden area. The most recent images show the garden covered in what looks to be gravel.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-rose-garden-bulldozed-as-work-starts-paving-it-over/ar-AA1H6tKD

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DJT says the grass is always wet, and it's an inconvenience for women in high heels.

Obviously, he genuinely cares about women much more than most of us at DU give him credit for

(sarc).

He also recently oversaw construction of two 30.5 meter (100') tall flagpoles. (That's when he asked construction workers if they were here illegally)

That, and he's garishly redecorated the White House with gold this and gold that and gold the other.

The article doesn't say what's going to be put there (in what was the Rose Garden) but mentions that he wants to build a ballroom like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago

[FakeNoose]

1. Please! Save the roses and replant them in anticipation of Chump kicking the bucket

... as soon as possible.

[Igel]

41. Looks like the actual roses/garden are being untouched.

It's the grass that's being torn up--as the OP says.

Also looks like either they're putting in some heavy duty irrigation, which seems backwards, or a drainage system, which is consistent with the claimed implied goal in the OP.

Now, will the grass be replaced when the modified french drain is done?

Dunno. Might not be a french drain at all--just "stylist" gravel with PVC pipe scattered about on top. That seems unlikely to me, though.

[Seinan Sensei]

53. "French Drain" has officially been renamed ...

to “American Drain”

[twodogsbarking]

2. Will they tear down the White House and build a Golden Palace. Oh wait, they will torch it so it won't have to be.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. Nah,

he will just have the exterior painted in Gilded Gold, or have it remodeled to look like the Taj Mahal........

[mwooldri]

58. If DJT pisses off the Canadians even more...

... then the Canadians might want to pay a repeat visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[AZJonnie]

3. This MOTHERFUCKER!!!

[FalloutShelter]

28. My reaction 100%

[underpants]

4. Pic

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1H6D0w.img?w=768&h=512&m=6

[JoseBalow]

13. Pic embedded

[underpants]

18. Thanks. Looks horrible 😡

[JoseBalow]

24. It does look horrible. Literally everything he touches turns to shit.

[mpcamb]

80. Golf cart parking area?

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Reminds me of the scene in the 1975 movie, The Stepford Wives.

The Tina Louise wife comes back from a week-end and her friends visit her.

The friends watch in horror as the beloved tennis court of TL is bulldozed. Her husband is down there, smiling and waving at her. She smiles back, satisfied.

She explains to her friends that she's been soooo selfish with her tennis court when her husband has always wanted a swimming pool. Well, now she only wants to make him happy.

[PJMcK]

69. Funny off-topic story

The Stepford Wives was partly filmed in my hometown of Westport, CT which is a NY suburb.

For the tennis court/swimming pool sequence, the producers made a deal with the parents of a classmate of mine. Curiously, they filmed the sequence in reverse: the pool scene was first, then they replaced it with the tennis court. The real pool was broken and needed major repairs and my friend’s parents wanted a tennis court instead. Accordingly, the film producers paid for the change!

[NEOH]

6. I hate him...

[Mr. Jinx]

7. Disgusting

He's trying to turn the White House into another Mag-a-loco. When he's gone, there needs to be a lot of preservation protocols put into effect.

[BidenRocks]

42. Agree

First we restore it and then preserve it in a bill which includes National Parks.
Any changes need to be approved by committee.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Surely

him wanting a ballroom, etc is because he thinks the White House is going to be his Residence forever.........AND the Mega Donor Oligarchs want to come to the White House, rather than Mar A Gago

[Deuxcents]

9. With all due respect, I sincerely hope you're wrong but I've even thought he has no intentions of leaving

Watch what he does and not what he says comes to mind..

[DENVERPOPS]

34. Every time in the past 8+ years

I have said He/Republicans WON'T dare do that, or have said He/Republicans CAN'T do that, or it is Illegal, against the law, or un-constitutional........
................................................

[regnaD kciN]

17. I think God/nature will have something to say about that...

[Karasu]

23. He'll fucking die, sure. But the intent is to keep his regime in power indefinitely regardless. That's how

fascists work.

Hence why I use the term "regime" in the first place. Administrations are temporary. This is not an "administration" by any comparative historical metric. They are behaving like people who think they have absolute power, and won't be giving it up voluntarily.

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Good call !!!!!!!!!!!

Mother Nature is increasingly acting out with Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Volcanoes, Floods, Droughts, etc. She is totally fed up with the way WE are treating HER planet.............When the last humanoid is wiped from the planet, My bet is that the planet will recover (she has all the time in the world)
and in 100k years she will put a new intelligent and caring species on earth and it sure won't be humans.......LOL
Have you noticed that it's mostly the RED states that have been getting hit the hardest by her?????? Especially the South East and Bible Belt...

[Bayard]

10. A ballroom.......

We've all seen his moves.

The Rose Garden was a thing of beauty and history. I'll take it over his sorry ass any day.

[3catwoman3]

31. Dancing generally involves moving your feet...

...unless you are in a wheelchair. That ain't dancing

[DENVERPOPS]

38. It was reported that all the soldiers

behind him were Hand Picked........no "fatties", and only ones showing allegiance to the MAGAot and voting Republican............

When he plays YMCA and dances to it.....he must not understand the significance of that song, and the guys who sang it......LOLOLOLOL

[Figarosmom]

45. Some of those cheers have to be a soundtrack

There were not enough people there to make that much noise. He was jerking around to empty bleachers.

[Layzeebeaver]

66. Looks like he's jacking off two elephants.

He’s an idiot.

[JoseBalow]

12. Vandal

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

14. At some point TACO will want "his" Secret Service to dress in pagentry uniforms.

1970, President Richard Nixon, inspired by the ceremonial pageantry he’d seen during European state visits, decided to revamp the uniforms of the White House Secret Service Uniformed Division. The result? A $16,000 wardrobe of white double-breasted tunics trimmed with gold braid, black pants with white stripes, and stiff, peaked hats called shakos—topped off with gold ceremonial shoulder cords.

The press and public were not impressed. Critics compared the look to everything from toy soldiers to doormen at a fancy hotel. One official even said the guards were “greeted with gales of laughter” when they first appeared.

The backlash was swift, and Nixon eventually scrapped the uniforms. In a final twist of irony, they were sold to a local high school marching band for $10.

[3catwoman3]

32. I remember those.

They were hideous.

[electric_blue68]

15. It looks like the roses are still there At least what Mel left..

"just" paving over the grass.
Which I hate. It's supposed to be a green respite!
😬

[malthaussen]

16. Poor Eddy.

Eddy was a famous White House rose who was featured in a few Doonesbury strips many years ago.

-- Mal

[sinkingfeeling]

19. As an American citizen, I'm a part owner of the White House. Time to sue the bastard for destroying federal

property. Wish I had the money t file class action suit.

[Deuxcents]

36. I agree. It's OUR White House and he's a guest/caretaker of our belongings.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

20. By the time he gets done, the place will look like a strip mall & car lot. Buy Here, Pay Here.

[Irish_Dem]

26. And it will have cost the US taxpayer a fortune to make it look that bad.

[cstanleytech]

21. What a fucking asshole, it's to bad Trump's Dad didn't pull out in time.

[somaticexperiencing]

22. it will be such a pleasure to see the jackhammers breaking up that pavement when Trump is finally gone and out

[LoisB]

25. I will risk going to hell but I HATE "IT" (him).

[walkingman]

27. The man has no class - gold tchotchkes, he stinks (everyone says).....

calls people names, racist, homophobic, xenophobic , Islamophobic, Christian Nationalist - simply deplorable and yet almost 80M people like him.

[Paladin]

29. Classic trumpian action:

Take a beautiful, historically significant place, destroy it, and replace it with something profoundly vile and ugly.

I've seen whorehouses with more class and taste than trump's gold-plated White House. And it gets worse by the day.

[doc03]

30. I am guessing a Democrat started the Rose Garden. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

50. Jackie Kennedy.

[CTyankee]

59. She is weeping in heaven....

[Rhiannon12866]

60. Breaks my heart, too

It was bad enough when they messed around with the Rose Garden when they were last there, I remember it was a national story at the time. But now they're thinking of paving it over and building some kind of "ballroom?" Aren't there plenty of rooms for entertaining international visitors already in the White House?? That Rose Garden is historic and means a lot to people. And how much is this new addition going to cost the American people??

[ificandream]

73. Would love to hear what Caroline has to say ...

[Rhiannon12866]

75. Same here! I'm sure she was old enough to remember...

[buzzycrumbhunger]

76. Yup...

[progree]

56. According to the article, the Rose Garden was established in 1913 by Ellen Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson

The Rose Garden ( https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-rose-garden-pictures-1961-2021-1604230 )was established in 1913 by Ellen Wilson, the wife of President Woodrow Wilson. It was later redesigned by President John F. Kennedy to serve as a space for outdoor ceremonies. It has since become a regular venue for various events, including receptions, press briefings, and other occasions.

[progree]

74. A Visual History of the Iconic White House Rose Garden

https://www.veranda.com/outdoor-garden/a33793720/white-house-rose-garden-history/

[3catwoman3]

33. "...and it's an inconvenience for women in high heels."

So maybe don't wear stilettos when you know you are going to the Rose Garden?

[Deuxcents]

40. That "excuse" or whatever, is insulting.. chivalry is not an attribute he's familiar with

[niyad]

62. Funny that this had not been a problem until the trumpford wives and their

8" stilettos. Almost 60 years, after Jackie's redesign, without a problem. I used to wear 4" heels, but never if I was going to be on grass.

[3catwoman3]

63. "...but never if I was going to be on grass."

Kind of a no brainer, eh?

[niyad]

70. One would have thought so, but aparently not.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. The hooker did what with my garden?

[turbinetree]

43. Maybe its time to place the baby trump balloon up in front of the white house.........the one sitting on a toilet.......

because this is probably the place he gets these ideas to just spend taxpayer money while at the same time trying to kick 13.5 million people off healthcare.........and thinking about all those woman in heels sinking in grass..........he really is a psychopath.........

[yellow dahlia]

47. Waste and abuse

[Figarosmom]

44. Well, since malania tore it all up

And put in cheap Iceburg white roses it wasn't much of a rose garden anyway.

What she tore up were many roses sent here during WWII to protect the species in including the Peace Rose. I sure hope the landscapers she hired to redo the garden knew what they were tearing out and took them for themselves.

[yellow dahlia]

46. The bulldozing of the Rose Garden is emblematic of all the other destruction he wreaks on our Democracy...

and all the other foundational elements of this country.

Yeh! - what's it going to be called now? Is he going to pave it over in gold and call it the gold garden.

Money and power...and no taste. (Just like the make over to the oval.)

[Diraven]

48. He wants to turn the WH into a country club

I'm pretty sure this is what's going to happen. Members (all billionaires and foreigners of course) will be required to buy $100 million of his memecoin instead of paying dues, so he can claim they're not paying bribes when of course they are.

[Rhiannon12866]

49. Good Grief! Not Again!

And how much is this going to cost the American people?!

[CentralMass]

51. He has no class.

[LudwigPastorius]

52. He's running out of room to bury ex-wives?

Maybe he's going to put up a Tomb of the Unknown Trophy Wife.

[Initech]

54. Fuck this fucking piece of shit and the pieces of shit that voted for him!

[lostnfound]

55. I don't really care, do you?

My attachment to symbols of American idealism and power went up in smoke in November.
Too many in the US make a mockery of it, both the technocrats/oligarchs and the racist regressive base.

[kkmarie]

57. My first thought was a staging area of sorts

https://imgur.com/a/TVoShgM


Something like hitler used. And on the gaint new flag poles? A trump flag possibly?

Please if someone could let me know how to post pictures videos. A few months back someone answered thus for me but I have forgotten.
I'd prefer the photo instead of the link.

[progree]

67. Here is the imbedded image displayed

How I got it:

I went to your link https://imgur.com/a/TVoShgM
I right-clicked on the picture and chose "Copy image link" from the right click menu.
Then I pasted it (Control V) to the above.

The image's URL looks like:
ttps://i.imgur.com/KkvmYRZ.jpeg

except pre-pend an "h" to it so that it starts out https

[Oopsie Daisy]

61. It will return. It's just one more thing to add to the list that needs to be repaired, rebuilt, reconstituted, redone *

* reconstituted, renovated, reclaimed...

It's really quite obvious that he only cares about SHITTING on everything that's beautiful, traditional, historic, sacred. We'll have a LOT to clean up.

[CTyankee]

64. "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

Anybody remember "Big Yellow Taxi"?

[Botany]

65. He is doing this just to be a prick

And he is bat shit crazy too.



This didn’t need his help.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

68. Is he going to put red lights on the top of the poles for Marine One?

Is there even enough clearance to land a chopper safely?

Why the f*ck does he need two giant poles where none are required?

He's not going to get his deposit back when he's evicted.

[eppur_se_muova]

72. There is already a flagpole on the roof of the WH -- at one point (WWI) there were two ...

That flag, seen in the pic, flies higher than the ones on the new flagpoles .... waste, fraud, and abuse, anyone ?

[Hekate]

71. I guess motoring over to Arlington Cemetery to spit on JFK's grave was too much trouble

[Hotler]

77. A garden to symbolize their hate. nt

[LilyBelle]

78. Like TACO doesn't wear heels.

Got to watch the slip & falls.

[progree]

79. tRump standing on a board in the grass in the Rose Garden

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-dementia-fears-leg-1201968
The Mirror 6/11/25 (yes, I know it's not the most reliable source
Dementia fears raised as mysterious lump spotted in Trump’s pants
Donald Trump went viral on Tuesday after hawkeyed critics spotted an odd flare in his pant leg as he stood in the White House's Rose Garden, with many people speculating that it may be a catheter