Construction to pave over the grass area in the White House Rose Garden has begun. Photo via Bloomberg’s Kate Sullivan on X: - ThreadSky

He couldn't have just put in a few holes and saved the people the cost golf weekends away? AND the cost of this horrible decision?

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wendyatlanticcan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Absolutely psychopathic.

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sjbg.bsky.social•2 days ago

A total disgrace.

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pyperkub.bsky.social•2 days ago

They needed another unsold Tesla lot?

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juliadilliard.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dispicable.

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wonderdogabides.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because the trashy frauds that are currently inhabiting The White House can only destroy and not create beauty.

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kendracula.bsky.social•3 days ago

Let’s stop calling it a garden. What’s shall we call it? 🤔

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craftybk.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is just so sad. People should post pix of their gardens, a nearby park, even a damn potted plant in joyful resistance. Here's mine (roses in my yard)...

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dwolf4.bsky.social•2 days ago

Because last time he had to make up an excuse (high maintenance, lack of media hookups) and now he he can get away with silence. Thanks, media.

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dunnersmads.bsky.social•2 days ago

How deep is the bunker?

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peacewithin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fraud, waste, and abuse

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steviezbrooklyn.bsky.social•3 days ago

Everything about Trump and and his whore consort is ugly, classless, stupid, malicious, devoid of heart and aesthetics, crude, cruel, offensive, destructive, and an affront to beauty and decency.

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theronnshow.bsky.social•3 days ago

fucker

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loveisphere.bsky.social•2 days ago

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

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archerbro.bsky.social•3 days ago

Become a gold+platinum+Superericbestfriend+ member today and you can park on the white house lawn for easy access to president!

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randybud.bsky.social•2 days ago

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot

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mgeuder.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Tacky R Us presidency.

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bfriedman.bsky.social•3 days ago

I literally oppose everything Trump does. I do support the increase in SALT, but of course that will be cut out of the budget.

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benfranklinskite.bsky.social•2 days ago

Monstrous

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kmryan.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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shawn1959.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably planning to build another soon-to-fail Trump casino there. 🙄

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proudsocialistd.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is absolutely disgusting. Jacqueline Kennedy made this beautiful Rose garden for the White House. It's been there since the 60s and now it's vanished. Hopefully the next Democratic president replants the rose guard for Jackie 🫶🏼😭💙

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weareinittogether.bsky.social•3 days ago

JFC

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yecats47.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is so sad to me! I hope it’s reversed back to a garden when he’s gone!

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scassian.bsky.social•3 days ago

Next week Trump will personally chisel off the face from the Lincoln Memorial.

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fog627.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’d love this grass spot to be paved over…

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leobm.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's what I imagine Trump thinks, which for him is a wonderful garden. 😔

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emalily.bsky.social•2 days ago

Hey Trump, touch grass

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stubbornyankee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Almost as barren and ugly as Trump's heart

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myposeygirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dog’s pee everywhere to mark their territory. He’s basically like a dog. Gangs do this too to mark/claim territory. The good news is that space cannot be owned forever, just rented for a while.

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nbrockmann.bsky.social•3 days ago

I cannot give this a ❤️

Such a metaphor for everything Trump. Let’s not have nice things anymore. 😢

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chrisklay.bsky.social•3 days ago

🤮

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jweland.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump: Enshittifying absolutely everything.

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winetast3r.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fucker is breaking laws every day, but this one breaks my heart

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thefakefatskinny.bsky.social•2 days ago

With … [waves around frantically] … everything, everywhere, it matters not in comparison; but I just had a physical reaction seeing this.

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braj1318.bsky.social•2 days ago

A hundred bucks says that Trump will add a statue of himself.

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abruzzi09.bsky.social•2 days ago

Disgusting.

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mj46.bsky.social•3 days ago

Disgraceful!

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cyn5-laf-dean.bsky.social•3 days ago

Can it really be called a garden anymore with that much concrete?

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bearman02.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, is it even a garden if it isn’t paved?🙄

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steelrat.bsky.social•3 days ago

The only green space Trump likes is a golf course he can make money with

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swissgirl52.bsky.social•3 days ago

No one asked me if this is okay!

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bluecatsrule24.bsky.social•3 days ago

And this was necessary why? What an ass. Can’t wait for the orange turd to be gone!

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kerthulhu75.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cruelty's the point.. and brutalism, of course.

The garden was, if memory serves, something previous First Ladies worked on, so.. too 'feminine' too close to nuance for the manosphere.

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riley-3.bsky.social•2 days ago

Everything Trump touches dies or is destroyed.

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golfjoker.bsky.social•3 days ago

So much waste.

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meowsterpiece.bsky.social•3 days ago

Too bad they stopped looking for the waste, fraud, and abuse cuz this is all three in one awful place!

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rotter7.bsky.social•3 days ago

SAD

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bethpink.bsky.social•3 days ago

I cannot wait to jackhammer that monstrosity and return the garden

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valolo.bsky.social•3 days ago

One reason he gave for eliminating the lawn area is that it was hard to walk on in heels. Must've been JD who complained.

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orphanannie1958.bsky.social•2 days ago

This was at the request of the “hose bags in heels” of Fuck News and MAL. Really.

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squirrelproof079.bsky.social•2 days ago

I beg your pardon ......
🎶🌞

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turquoise919.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is this for the fake gold ballroom he thinks will impress people?

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gek1951.bsky.social•2 days ago

There wasn't a good place to hold campaign rallies outside.

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mijoda3.bsky.social•3 days ago

ETTD

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tweedyboy57.bsky.social•3 days ago

Spend Spend SPEND! THE WORLD is Trumps Oyster

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poteauthe11th.bsky.social•3 days ago

He's going to do it with public lands, too. And once they're gone, there's no getting them back.

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hyoscine.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fucking boomers paving over everything 🙄

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willempa.bsky.social•3 days ago

Make America Ugly Again (in all the ways)

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tea-n-me.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s a metaphor for what he wants to do to our National Parks.

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realmaryagnes.bsky.social•3 days ago

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot ... you don't know what you got 'till it's gone.

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cplovey.bsky.social•2 days ago

They certainly know how to ruin ruin ruin!

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shepgirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

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rjmullens.bsky.social•3 days ago

Roses? Garden? The Moron is so fond of renaming things wait for it to be “renamed” the Trump Patio or something else obnoxiously bad 😡

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andthelistgrows.bsky.social•3 days ago

Makes sense, they need a parking lot to match the truck stop flagpoles

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cfraase.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is so sad. Jackie's masterpiece.

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aoibhinngrainne.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is shameful. He may live there (for now) but it’s not his house!

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michaeldigi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Melania hates anything living and beautiful...

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leeb14.bsky.social•2 days ago

Shameful indeed!

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lauriedarln.bsky.social•2 days ago

Criminal

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00kjg.bsky.social•3 days ago

MF

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yarnlover.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Trump regime is doing the same thing to the Constitution.
#WITAOP?

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slc-islesfan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Next up, a golden outhouse and adult diaper station.

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clematis244.bsky.social•1 day ago

The perfect metaphor.

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cristafornia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wanna bet they going to call the parking lot "Rose lot" with not a single rose in sight. That is how they love to do it.

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ohtotxcurly1.bsky.social•2 days ago

FFS what's wrong with these people?

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margoforsaints.bsky.social•3 days ago

What next? Gold leaf on the plant pots? A sculpture of his highness?

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bluemeade7.bsky.social•3 days ago

Shh! That was supposed to be a secret.

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mitocoyotyl.bsky.social•3 days ago

They found all of the 5 white concrete workers in the country.

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brianeisley.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hate these people. I'm ashamed at how much hate they have inspired in me. I want them to spend the rest of their lives doing the hardest time imaginable.

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eyehate.bsky.social•2 days ago

Looking cold, pathetic, broken

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njproctor.bsky.social•2 days ago

WTH

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jerseybuckeyes.bsky.social•2 days ago

Other prior reporting on this? Just wondering. Seems like a huge issue that hasn’t been addressed before this.

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dorothea-brook.bsky.social•3 days ago

Kennedy’s Center, Kennedy’s garden, Kennedy’s family name. That f*cker wants to sully it all, because he’s so jealous or a Russian asset or both

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stevenerick1976.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump has angered the Kennedy family * He will never sleep well in the WH again.
* RFK jr excluded!

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mibooknut.bsky.social•2 days ago

I suspect that Trump is doing this because the Kennedy clan did not support him except for RFKjr (and he supposedly has a dead worm in this brain). Trump acts like a vindictive toddler.

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stevenerick1976.bsky.social•2 days ago

Absolutely 💯 and if you recall how Ted loathed him. Trump wants to BE Camelot … 😂 never gonna happen.

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brobinsnest.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fucking scumbags.

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barefootdog.bsky.social•3 days ago

WTF! NEXT IS THE TRUMP SIGN OUT FRONT.

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massdisillusion.bsky.social•3 days ago

they should put in some Trump Porta-potties, beloved piss on Donny, and shit on Melania.

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spbaseball.bsky.social•2 days ago

No roses, no grass, no garden, NO CLASS!

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valven13.bsky.social•3 days ago

😢

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geekgrammy.com•2 days ago

This is just sad.

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witwarrior.bsky.social•2 days ago

I bet the full-sized statue group of Trump and his Secret Service agents at Butler will adorn the patio.

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notaweed.bsky.social•3 days ago

Everything this administration touches dies. What the People’s House doesn’t need is more pavement🤮

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wuzzupg.bsky.social•3 days ago

Easier to roll a wheelchair on concrete than on grass.

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leighfotop.bsky.social•3 days ago

ETTD

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wyldangel420.bsky.social•3 days ago

Like everything else, it’ll look like white trash who just won the lottery

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spmlady.bsky.social•3 days ago

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kmr-kevin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Where was DOGE when this project was being considered?

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mlflaherty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Tacky, as always.

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freegirlnow.bsky.social•3 days ago

Make it as ugly as possible. Make it impossible to deny that this vulgar man is without taste or respect

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stephanieshultz.bsky.social•3 days ago

How much is this costing taxpayers?

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oatsdad.bsky.social•2 days ago

They paved paradise and put in a MAGA lot.

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nikosleverenz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Costly and loathsome. Hopefully an English garden gets planted with the next WH occupant.

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oneless77.bsky.social•2 days ago

Classless pice of orange shit.

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tpoodz77.bsky.social•2 days ago

First they take out the cherry trees, now they concrete over the lawn. What's he going to do? Build another Trump Tower? God, I hate this guy.

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alvisinger.bsky.social•2 days ago

as if bombing iran wasnt bad enough

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camofarc.bsky.social•2 days ago

To make it “like mar a lago."

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brenk24.bsky.social•3 days ago

Disgusting.

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paulg5.bsky.social•2 days ago

Just trumps way of hating on the kennedy’s, rfk jr. is to stupid to notice that

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mop-fautneddy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Have jackhammers at the ready, January 2029.

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ohcanadienne.bsky.social•2 days ago

A) those workers must be very conflicted about doing that shit
B) we will undo that shit

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thnksmga.bsky.social•3 days ago

He's putting in a used car lot. He'll be flying those plastic pendants from the new flag poles he had installed yesterday

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phoenix5.bsky.social•13 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/phoenix5.bsky.social/post/3lsd2r355gs2n

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ggl25.bsky.social•2 days ago

A symbol for his presidency

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massach.bsky.social•2 days ago

gaaaaah

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independentme.bsky.social•2 days ago

FUCK!

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agnesanne.bsky.social•2 days ago

keep an eye out for bodies

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heytommy.bsky.social•3 days ago

Wait For It: the TRUMP name on the White House⁉️

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anneroberts54.bsky.social•3 days ago

Environmental vandalism in the extreme. But of course they don't give a damn.

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smalljane.bsky.social•3 days ago

😡

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clemesq.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why do that?

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headcrash.bsky.social•3 days ago

"How are you with a Bobcat?"

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bethygal.bsky.social•3 days ago

Green space means nothing to this man and his minions.

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scott7876.bsky.social•3 days ago

"You don't know what you got till its gone, they paved paradise and put in a parking lot"

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realmaryagnes.bsky.social•3 days ago

GMTA. Same.

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joriesue.bsky.social•3 days ago

Imagine hating nature so much.

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cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social•3 days ago

still pissing on everything

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itsallgreektome.bsky.social•3 days ago

This defilement is the perfect metaphor for what trump has done to our country: torn up, rolled up and laid bare the ugly.

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blafrance.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope they rip it up in three and a half years. He literally ruins everything.

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mirimg.bsky.social•3 days ago

🤬

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artie502.bsky.social•3 days ago

Their fascism is even symbolic.

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cristabelle.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's the freakin' Rose Garden. No concrete!

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jandel237.bsky.social•3 days ago

😡😡😡😡😡

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blasphemousjones.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ah, yes. The Historical Trampled Rose Car Lot™. A popular senior hangout.

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onelittlelight.bsky.social•2 days ago

3&&(&@?\25$,./48@,fffff

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kerritarmey.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yet another criminal action by trump.

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cyndiw1.bsky.social•3 days ago

From beautiful aromatic roses and grass to cold,unforgiving concrete!
😡🤬

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readerofposts.bsky.social•3 days ago

He's ruining the White House. Soon he will install a golden escalator, or maybe a gigantic outdoor screen playing Fox News.

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petabu.bsky.social•2 days ago

A parking lot for the golf carts?

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blackenedmerlin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Next will be a big tRump merch kiosk with ATM machines to buy the family's various scam-coin

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megabeth18.bsky.social•3 days ago

From Jackie O to Gray Gardens ..

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markabuchanan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Vandalism.

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susanhollander.bsky.social•2 days ago

What Bruce Springsteen said, no joy or humanity. They paved paradise, and made us a parking lot.

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anderk.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤬🤬🤬

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citizenesskane.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cue the music...
https://youtu.be/CiShREyVv0E?si=MD_ybRs_b9x0YHZc

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rogueblue007.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fuck those fuckers 🤬🤬🤬

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beechlvr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Terrible

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swimher24.bsky.social•2 days ago

He intends to destroy America because we dared to reject him once.
The Rose Garden of the widow of an assassinated president is now a parking lot.

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pfiddly.bsky.social•3 days ago

He’s always removing beauty and love from America.

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lhbari.bsky.social•2 days ago

And culture. Or is it cultcha?

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stevenactual.bsky.social•3 days ago

Vandalism pure and simple.

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gpac30.bsky.social•3 days ago

Despicable. I'm convinced that no matter how bad things are rn, his legacy will be appropriately conveyed as an evil sack of 💩

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martinoost.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's going to be a putting green 💚

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joedecam.bsky.social•1 day ago

Felon47 turning the White House into his permanent residence—a gaudy Mar a Lardo of DC. His promise to become dictator slowly coming true.

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tasha0811.bsky.social•3 days ago

Horrible

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sandy2950.bsky.social•2 days ago

Pave over the world!!

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somedutchman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Next some concrete, a couple of cheap adirondack deckchairs, a parasol and a BBQ...

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jack1973.bsky.social•3 days ago

A patio like no one has ever seen....

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teri15.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hope a gardener saves at least some of them to plant back later.

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artemidorus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Will trump have it spray painted in gold? Keeping it "classy".

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kauaiarts.bsky.social•3 days ago

He is wrecking the White House now

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kelinpdx.bsky.social•2 days ago

There's absolutely nothing he can't fuck up.

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ravenna321.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seems metaphorical

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pbgvsruletheworld.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is why Trump is a zhlub.

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pistachio-pesto.bsky.social•2 days ago

Disgusting. That whole family is trash

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theaporkalypse.bsky.social•3 days ago

And tear down those ridiculous flagpoles too.

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kayteemade.bsky.social•3 days ago

Of all of his moral, criminal and societal crimes this seems the most absurd. Who gets rid of roses?!

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reader-writer.bsky.social•2 days ago

How very analogous to what he’s doing to the country.

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gamulholland.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes! I was an English major, and I was going to say that but you beat me to it.

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mensa-goose.bsky.social•3 days ago

The fuck is this bullshit

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josey75.bsky.social•2 days ago

Next he'll put tables and chairs and sell memberships so he has an audience that will clap for him when he goes to dinner and of course, cricket from Congress...

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bp740.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably high on his to do list.

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cactusf1ower.bsky.social•2 days ago

It won’t matter

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jenhaw.bsky.social•2 days ago

He brings out the worst in people & I think he enjoys doing it.

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bluekjs.bsky.social•2 days ago

Maybe they’re building a high rise Trump hotel. At least they didn’t build over the WH. But that might be phase 2.

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annmartin1947.bsky.social•3 days ago

What do you expect of a guy who lived in a gold plated NY penthouse his entire life and touches grass only when playing golf? Would he do the same at Mar-a-Largo? Pave the whole property so he doesn’t have to pay undocumented to mow and manicure the landscaping?

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rabblerous.bsky.social•3 days ago

If it were appropriate/allowable to have a concrete golf course, he would

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annmartin1947.bsky.social•2 days ago

Only if all of the “greens” were concave (and painted green), so that once a ball hits the “green,” it would automatically go into the cup..eventually.

Might have to change par for each hole.

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cindic324.bsky.social•2 days ago

Then removed and roses planted when new admin comes in , in 2029

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asrothstein.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just why…

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theladyred.bsky.social•2 days ago

as my dad used to say his taste is all in his mouth.
the decorator for his NYC penthouse designed interiors for the Golden Nugget Atlantic City...

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legalminimum.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because he has the most mid taste. Remember how Melania decorated the White House for Xmas and how it looked like a hotel lobby? He thinks expensive hotels are the height of style.

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legalminimum.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was discussing this with a friend. I wrote a book on Jung when I was in college (don’t bother, it’s terrible) and do like his theories of extraversion and intraversion. Tl;dr: intraverts see themselves through the lens of the world, and extraverts see the world through the lens of themselves.

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legalminimum.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump is a classical Jungian intravert who hates that he is one. He can only perceive himself the way he’s perceived by the world, and he hates that because he knows how the world perceives him. That’s why he surrounds himself with sycophants.

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robwi.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hear that there were many good books written on Jung that year.

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legalminimum.bsky.social•2 days ago

This was not one of them.

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robwi.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://imgflip.com/gif/1qe09u

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asrothstein.bsky.social•3 days ago

The “updates” were bad. This is just bad. I can understand why the lawn in the middle might not be inspiring, but it’s a garden where you *can* hold events, not an event space.

Ju

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wrongbottom.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maralago on the Potomac.

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asrothstein.bsky.social•3 days ago

Imagine choosing to live in a gilded but emotionally and historically hollow cage. Everything *looks* nice if it’s your esthetic, but nothing has meaning. That’s what’s always surprised me about Trump. With his wealth even if grossly inflated he can afford ANYTHING. And yet he goes for maralago.

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