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It’s a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.
It also looks like something you’d find at a cheap, trashy resort where children poop in the pool.
A manicured grass lawn is not nature
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.
Edit: it’s just a joke guys, don’t take it too seriously lol
If you just want to be a contrarian for the hell of it, you’re doing great.
I guess a concrete lot is better in your opinion.
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.
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.
The problem is, have you ever noticed how much hotter you are in a parking lot on a warm day than when you are in a park? Well, now those events are happening on a parking lot and not a park. Furniture can be designed to work on turf, or temporary fixtures could be put in place to mitigate the drawbacks of furniture on lawns, but the absorbed and reflected heat will be hard to get rid of. Hopefully this area is small enough to not have a big impact on the temperature there.
I honestly don’t think it looks bad, but I suspect it’s more for Trump to put his stamp on it than anything else, and to erase the efforts of others before him. And I suspect it will be more uncomfortable than it was before.
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.
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
It’s nature…just not “wild” nature.
That’s not the version from Clerks 2, though 😛
I came to the comments looking for this song. I did not expect to learn that the version by Counting Crows was a cover however. Neat!
They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
Are these the Epstein files?! 😶
No but they are buried underneath.
Epstein Tiles
He’s like a rat gnawing on the wires of democracy and this is the visualization of his excrement. Fucking disgusting.
My rats were pretty intelligent and they didn’t shit where they ate or slept. And they weren’t in the Epstein files. So this comparison doesn’t fly at all.
Weren’t in the Epstein files as far as you know.
But yeah I had rats I’d vote for them over trump for anything.
I like the idea that ok that list amongst Clinton and Trump and Prince Andrew is “that guy’s rats”
When this asshole finally dies or goes to jail (please), we might as well burn the place down and start over. You ain’t ever getting the stench out the walls…
Give Canada a call - we did it once before for you guys… 😏
Come on down, the address hasn’t changed.
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I’m not familiar what’s the history there?
War of 1812. They burned the White House.
Don’t worry, Canada still takes credit for it.
Well today I learned!
Reference to the war of 1812, it was still ~50 years before Canada slipped the British leash but there’s some weird nationalist revisionist history surrounding it.
Where’s the sign up sheet? I’ll stand on guard for thee.
Outside the various shitty adjustments he’s making now, we cannot forget something perhaps bigger. Because of him, an enemy state flag (the flag of the Confederacy) was flown in the White House.
you mean this?
No. Though if I got a nickel for every time Trump is associated with the Confederate flag… it’d be a rich man.
I was specifically speaking to the Jan. 6 intersection attack. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/kevin-seefried-confederate-flag-capitol-jan-6-sentenced-rcna69784
That’s the capitol, though, no…?
You know what, you’re right. I must have vaguely remembered both and blended the two stories.
That’s the capitol building though
Or the ketchup.
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.
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.
Honestly it’s more symbolic of what this regime has done to America
Let the pigs have their mud.
There’s your problem. All that grass makes for a terrible child sacrifice during their pedo parties. The blood soaks right in and you never get a chance to collect it for the Sangria mix.
He’s slowly making Obama’s joke come true.
IIRC, Biff Tannen was based on Orange Hitler.
He was.
Another casino he is going to ruin
Complains windmills make Scotland ugly.
Proceeds to pave over the Rose Garden.
People: Save the Earth!
Trump: Pave the Earth!
Nothing is more beautiful than polished white marble and gold. Lots and lots of goolllld!
Between this and the ballroom it would be a minor blessing if Canada burnt the place down again.
Again?
Again.
We (as Brits) burned it in 1812.
Never mind minor, the world would breathe a sigh of relief.
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.
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”
But the sign on the door should read “Classified Document Storage”
Rename it to the “Barack HUSSEIN Obama” Ballroom.
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.
Why keep the ballroom? Take a bulldozer through it.
He hardly needs to try when he’ll be an irrevocable unmovable stain on the US ledgers of record and national reputation forever.
Good. America should never forget.
wierd amount of people coming out of the woodwork to defend the concrete pavement by trump.
what was once lush, green, and beautiful, is now a grey, ugly, boring looking stain.
Earth in about 80 years when runaway heating deletes us all and makes Venus 2: Anthropogenic Boogaloo
Looks like a condo roof
Like a tacky outlet mall
Of all the things he’s changed about the country, I bet something like this is what he cares about the most. I can just imagine the tantrum trump will throw when the next president* digs this up and returns it to grass, or better yet, an actual garden.
* if we get another president.
Oh they are all petty twits.
Regan pitched a fit and removed the solar panels Carter left on the roof when he left office. This is just more proof the regressive party has no taste.
