{"id":56209,"date":"2025-02-15T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56209"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:26:28","slug":"trump-wants-to-pave-over-the-rose-garden-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/15\/trump-wants-to-pave-over-the-rose-garden-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wants to Pave Over the Rose Garden Lawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that destroying democracy, ratcheting up in inflation with his tariffs and trade war, abandoning our longtime allies, kissing Putin\u2019s ass and firing people would keep Donnie busy enough.<\/p>\n<p>But now he\u2019s investigating his desire to pave\u00a0over the lawn in the Kennedy Rose Garden so it more closely resembles his Mar-a-Lago place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Plan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Plan.jpg 699w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Plan-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Plan-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Iconic_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Iconic_2.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Iconic_2-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Iconic_2-150x129.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(An aerial view of Kennedy Rose Garden\u00a0<u>PRIOR<\/u>\u00a0to Melania\u2019s desecration)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While that\u2019s galling enough,\u00a0White House Communications Director\u00a0<em>Steven Cheung<\/em>\u00a0released a statement\u00a0<em>\u201c<u>justifying<\/u>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Trump&#8217;s intentions to modify the grounds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/society\/politics\/a63805484\/president-trump-white-house-rose-garden-jackie-kennedy-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>\u201cThe 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 \u2018the People\u2019s House.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Boy_FIRED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Boy_FIRED.jpg 468w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Boy_FIRED-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump_Pave_Rose_Garden_Boy_FIRED-126x150.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Designers are already busy drafting\u00a0options for how to \u201cremake\u201d the Rose Garden to then\u00a0recreate the patio experience at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>But Donnie isn\u2019t stopping there with his makeover plans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Hang a grand chandelier from the ceiling of the Oval Office<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Gold vases and statuettes and at least one gold figurine embedded in an elevated wall molding<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Build a ballroom at the White House, \u201clike I have at Mar-a-Lago,\u201d which Mr. Trump says would cost $100 million<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, the White House Historical\u00a0Association has no statutory authority over the premises.\u00a0 Additionally,\u00a0the Rose Garden is outside of its scope because it is outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>And worse, the National Park Service, controlled by the Department of the Interior, maintains the grounds, including the Rose Garden.<\/p>\n<p>At least the roses are currently reported to remain.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else reminded of the lyrics from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/UQDmGSV\"><strong>\u201cBig Yellow Taxi\u201d<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>Don&#8217;t it always seem to go<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>That you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ve got &#8217;til it&#8217;s gone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>They paved paradise, put up a parking lot<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>STORY SOURCE:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/mar-a-lago-trump-grass-rose-garden.html\">Trump Considers Paving Grass at White House Rose Garden to Match Mar-a-Lago &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that destroying democracy, ratcheting up in inflation with his tariffs and trade war, abandoning our longtime allies, kissing Putin\u2019s ass and firing people would keep Donnie busy enough. But now he\u2019s investigating his desire to pave\u00a0over the lawn in the Kennedy Rose Garden so it more closely resembles his Mar-a-Lago place. (An <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/15\/trump-wants-to-pave-over-the-rose-garden-lawn\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6227,6226,6225,6224,4864,6171],"class_list":["post-56209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-mar-a-lago","tag-no-class","tag-pave","tag-rose-garden","tag-trump","tag-white-house","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}