Previously:
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!
Let me guess… these were democrat, woke roses?
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.
Thats fucking horrendous lmao
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.
If there ever will be a next US president I expect him to first tear down that new gold wing, then to dig up this shit.
Anything else can wait
that new gold wing
Is the Epstein list buried under there?
Just the list
Hows drainage?
Also they kept the much cheaper pavers around it, which looks stupid as hell.
Here I was just glad to see Trump didn’t insist on making it rose gold they didn’t have to change the name
wierd amount of people coming out of the woodwork to defend the concrete pavement by trump.
“Pave paradise and put up a parking lot”
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.
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…
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
Give Canada a call - we did it once before for you guys… 😏
Come on down, the address hasn’t changed.
If you’re still offering…
Can I sign up for this mailing list?
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.
Or the ketchup.
Should make a small nature center there and lead by example. But nah…
Love to see a change.org petition to this effect
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.
Nothing is synthetic it’s all made of stuff we have here on earth!
Everything that exists is natural. That’s why the supernatural doesn’t exist.
I see your point and raise my promethium-146 sprinkled in my tiles.
That’s just organic star stuff.
It’s nature…just not “wild” nature.
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’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.
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.
Ugly and only heat, i do not see the better for this nonsense
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
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!
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
Like a tacky outlet mall
