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The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete (www.indy100.com)
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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago

It looks like they’re getting rid of the grass that was under the seating area. They’re also putting French drains around that gathering area.

The roses and topiaries are still there, they’re just redoing the area where the chairs and tables go.

This is landscaping change is pretty low on my lists of concerns about Trump. I have a lot of greenery in my yard, and I also put gravel and stone under the seating areas.

[-] sthetic@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I agree. I despise Trump. But removing a lawn and putting in hardscape, in a spot where people often gather for events, is not an insult to heritage or anything like that.

If a president that I otherwise liked did this, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

It's not as if a lawn is super environmentally valuable. And I doubt people spread picnic blankets and play Frisbee on this lawn - they put chairs on it and walk on it with heels and hold events and stuff. A hard surface is the right thing for that type of use.

And if a future president decides to put lawn back in, they can! It's not as blades of grass and sandy growing medium are irreplaceable.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ah if it’s just grass, fine. I hate grass. Always needing water or it’s gonna catch fire. And allergies to go around. Grass can go.

Let’s save all the outrage for cutting Medicare, starting wars. That’s where my ragebait is.

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

trump could be eating crackers and that would make me anti-cracker eating

[-] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 weeks ago

Does this guy just sit up all day trying to find new ways to be a fucking piece of shit asshole?

[-] towerful@programming.dev 17 points 3 weeks ago

It's part of the strategy.
Overwhelm the news cycle, see what the news picks up and push that more, let the actual bad stuff go under-reported.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

People keep trying to attribute planning to what can be much more plausibly explained by idiocy. Trump is not "strategically" dozing the rose garden to distract from the real news, he's just a tasteless brutish moron.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

People keep trying to attribute maliciousness to stupidity as well. Mostly because it's easier to dismiss stupidity than argue against it.

He's shortsighted, narcissistic, and petty. But he doesn't do things just to prove how much of a big idiot he is. Dismissing everything he does as "idiocy" just gives him more leash to piss on everyone from.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't say those two things are mutually exclusive, Trump is dumber than shit and also a raging malicious bastard. The Nazis were both malicious as hell and stupid as fuck.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I would argue that malice is born from stupidity.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I would say the opposite. At least for the basis of this train of thought. That maliciousness makes one single-minded in their ideals and goals, which inevitably devolves into "Get mine, fuck them". Which is inherently destructive, both for the person in question and those around them.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Which is inherently stupid.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

But why? Just calling things dumb, or stupid, or idiotic without any explanation is just a grade school way of saying "I don't like a thing". Without seeking a way to understand, and thus overcome it, it's always just going to be "I'm smart and they're dumb", which is often the argument of those you'd criticize of "inherent stupidity".

[-] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

He is. But the people around him and controlling/handling him aren't idiots.
It's either in project 2025, or some other republican playbook. Scattershot out a bunch of crazy news to swamp the news cycle and overwhelm everyone, then get to work doing the dirty stuff

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's the gish gallop of news: do as much bullshit as possible so nothing can be effectively blocked or countered.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

No. It comes naturally from decades of practice.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah how you wake up at 3:00 in the morning with a great idea but by noon you realize it was stupid. Noon never comes for him.

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

He is the white trash of presidents

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago

Gonna pave it with gold toilets so he can shit together with all his friend

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Dunno man, he and Elon are having quite the "will they, won't they ruin America" moment right now. He'll be solo for a bit.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Ten bucks says the next part is a statue.

[-] syaochan@feddit.it 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This one?

NSFW

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mark that shit as NSFW, please. That's worse than Burns' portrait.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I really doubt his ass isn't covered in shit.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, what the fuck am I looking at? Is that actually the toddler in chief?

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Next up: painting the White House with cheap gold paint.

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Especially the showers

[-] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It'll be expensive gold paint from one of Don's mates

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

How long until he changes the US flag to one with his face on?

Like his social media avatar

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, it will happen.

And when will he force every home and business to have a portrait of himself on the walls? Because, that will probably happen, too.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

i'm perfectly capable of hanging pictures facing the wall

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

He's admitted he admires North Korea's dictator and the way he's treated

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds like something he would do on July 4th

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, he cares about that holiday, not ones that celebrate minorities. So I'm guessing some time again this month in opposition to Pride, or Indigenous Peoples' Day will have some bullshit. Even though Google already got rid of that from their calendars and kept Columbus.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

kill the fucker duo already

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Cosmetic injustices like this are an intentional distraction from the regime's attempts to steal all public funds, kill Americans who need Medicaid, continue their ethnic cleansing campaign at home and support Israel and Russia's ongoing genocides.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

it's for parking his motor coach

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Is this just to lower the property value? I thought Trump understood things about real estate.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

he needs a place to bury melania.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I believe the succubus is returned back to hellfire once they depart this plane of existence.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

He needs a place to be buried.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

preferably in a dog park

[-] Lanske@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Turning the white house into mar-a-lago 2?!

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Just inspected the site of the new Ballroom that will be built, compliments of a man known as Donald J. Trump, at the White House," he began in a post on Truth Social earlier this month.

"For 150 years, Presidents, and many others, have wanted a beautiful Ballroom, but it never got built because nobody previously had any knowledge or experience in doing such things — But I do, like maybe nobody else, and it will go up quickly, and be a wonderful addition, very much in keeping with the magnificent White House itself.

He is so fucking full of himself it's almost unbelievable. I'm sure this will turn out just as well as the wall that's being built and paid for by Mexico.

[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone check if there’s any evidence there?

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine being this tasteless

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