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This and everything else he has done is expected when you have methed out gutter trash in the White House with no comprehension or respect for history. Would not be surprised if the leg lamp from A Christmas Story is near the entrance.
actually infuriating
It’s a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.
A manicured grass lawn is not nature
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
I guess a concrete lot is better in your opinion.
Yeah, for this space that is frequently used to host people or filled with chairs for a press conference, it is better and makes more sense.
I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
In principle, I don’t mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It’s not as if lawn can’t be put back there in the future. Lawn isn’t a heritage tree or rose shrub.
To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.
Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.
Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.
Ugly and only heat, i do not see the better for this nonsense
It doesn’t require constant watering and fertilizer that leeches into ground water just so you can have perfectly green 2" tall grass fully exposed to the sun that doesn’t want to live there and call it “nature”.
If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.
It’s more nature than what’s there now
Stone isn’t nature? Looks like natural stone to me. It’s ugly AF but both are artifical and have little to do with nature.
If you just want to be a contrarian for the hell of it, you’re doing great.
Nothing is synthetic it’s all made of stuff we have here on earth!
I see your point and raise my promethium-146 sprinkled in my tiles.
That’s just organic star stuff.
Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.
It also looks like something you’d find at a cheap, trashy resort where children poop in the pool.
I don’t see why pavement is worse than manicured grass
Because ants can live on grass but not pavement? Lawn is bad for biodiversity but concrete is much worse.
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Ants can and do live in paved spaces. There is a layer of sand under the slabs that is easy for them to excavate tunnels from, with the entrance between two slabs.
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It’s the white house. It gets sprayed for insects anyway.
They should spray a lot more, plenty of bugs there.
You need to get the 12 gauge spray for the kind of bug you’re thinking of.
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It’s ugly and trashy
Because it’s a garden?
That being said pre Wilson, it actually had garden beds where the lawn was.
Also ask yourself in the context of a garden, what is better vegetation than grass to walk on?
Of everything, this is low on the list of things to be annoyed about. While there were probably better ways, this is an area used for gatherings and DC being DC, it is pretty marshy and unusable as a lawn. There have been plans for a long time to do something like this.
Let the pigs have their mud.
More importantly, this will be easily undone later, unlike much of the other damage he has done or plans to do. Compared to those things, I can’t get too worked up over this.
Also the actual roses were in the bushes on the side.
I’m pretty sure they did actually get rid of a lot of the flowers anyway and got rid of things they shouldn’t have, but the layout of it isn’t so drastically changed and the lawn can easily be replaced.
More space for a Tesler showroom.
That looks like a little mini Tiananmen Square. Dictators love a big slab of concrete.
Dude’s heels were probably sinking into the dirt during press conferences.
I wonder what kind of entry fee he’s going to concoct now that it had been new and
ruinedimproved.Are these the Epstein files?! 😶
No but they are buried underneath.
Epstein Tiles
lol the insignia in the corner, very American
It’s actually very fascist but USAian is basically same thing.
Visually it’s striking how similar it looks to how Nazi Germany also put eagle motif crests everywhere.
i like that the drain grates are American flags… kinda symbolic.
also, this pisses me off, but not as much as his “Goldifying the Oval Office”
But when?
The remodeling started in March or April.
They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
I don’t suppose the organic garden is still around along with the whitehouse mead made from honey of beehives on the grounds.
Honestly, I’m amazed he managed to restrain himself from making it mostly gold. Can’t imagine that this ballroom will have such restraint.
The cans of gold-colored spray are still around, I’m sure.
This and the ballroom are Trump trying to leave a permanent mark on the White House behind. If nothing else, he’ll die of natural causes within the next decade, and he knows his name will be cursed from then on. If you have to call it “The Donald J Trump Ballroom”, then he still has something.
No no it’s the Epstein distraction ballroom.
Why keep the ballroom? Take a bulldozer through it.
I will make sure to always call it the “Fuck Donald J Trump Ballroom” in his memory
Rename the ballroom to whatever, but name the restrooms the “Donald J. Trump Shit and Piss Closets”
Fuck that just tear it down. But in the most “fuck this were not going to reuse any of this” kinda way. The new president whips his dick out after and pisses on the rubble.
