The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was expecting it to be vulgarly gilded. The orange utan is letting himself go.

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  • Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s SO plain looking, I’m surprised too! He usually goes for “tackiest possible approach” so this feels like an oversight, even though its objectively a better outcome.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    he only does it indoors, like with the 200million ball rooms hes going to do.

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  actually infuriating

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• AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They paved paradise and put up some pavement…

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Subtitle to the story of civilization

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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Truely mild compared to all the scientific executions that happened

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• Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fitting for the shitshack it has become.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hows drainage?

  Also they kept the much cheaper pavers around it, which looks stupid as hell.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here I was glad to see Trump didn’t insist on making it rose gold they didn’t have to change the name

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would have returned it to nature with native plants. Krasnov created a smaller Red Square and now he wants a fucking Ballroom for $200 million! WTF!

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• KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Am I missing something here? It looks like the roses are still there and he just paved over the big useless lawn.

  Anyone else see this? Those rose bushes are still clearly there on the right side of the image. Ifball were talking about is the replacement of some shit grass anyways, who gives a fuck?

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  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It looks tacky and shitty. Like something a child rapist with no taste would like.

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    • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So does a fucking lawn. Actually, imo, lawns are worse. It’s a perfect representation of the toxicity of the “American dream”. It’s an unnatural landscape that’s inhospitable to life, sort of like the concrete, but it gets some weird psychological pass because it’s green. It’s shit either way.

      Talking about “he ripped out the rose garden” is just more sensationalism horseshit when the roses are right there, just fuckin dandy. He tore out a lawn that was equally as shit.

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  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lawns are bad, yes, replacing lawn with hard impermeable surface, worse.

    It’s as if someone turned their whole front yard in to a parking lot.

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  • Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And that looks good to you?

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    • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean i would’ve preferred clover instead but the concrete is precisely as useful to bugs as that grass was.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Think of the savings in lawnmower fuel, it’s so ecological!

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  • Elaine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed, the whole clutching of pearls over the rose garden is ridiculous. It’s widely accepted that lawns are an unnecessary flex. This area is used for seating so nothing but some grass that was probably in need of constant repair because of all the traffic. This is a big nothing sandwich.

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    • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right, a marble floor is not a flex at all

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  • betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A lawn? Absolutely not. It’s a resource sink for no other reason that vanity. If they weren’t going to put in something useful, like clover or any actual productive plant life, then I’d rather see it capped off and no longer watered. Golf courses too for that matter. Pave them over entirely and build dense urban housing instead on a national scale.

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  • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah that grass square always seemed strange to me even as a kid, since they hosted outdoor parties for visiting foreign dignitaries and grass isn’t the best surface for fancy shoes, especially women’s heels. My brothers and I would sometimes wonder if it opened up to reveal a secret missile base or Aurora landing pad.

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fucking disgusting

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• flango@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But when?

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  • FloatingAlong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The remodeling started in March or April.

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• StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "Rose garden"

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• thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Should make a small nature center there and lead by example. But nah…

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  • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Love to see a change.org petition to this effect

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A change in architecture to accompany the change in form of government.

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