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People Are Ridiculing Melania Trump’s White House Rose Garden Renovation With Savage Tweets
Ever since 1961, when President Kennedy came up with the idea to design the Rose Garden at the west end of the White House, the garden has become an icon by itself.
Designed by the gardener Rachel Lambert Mellon, it has been home to a colorful selection of magnolias, cherry trees, roses, tulips, and other botanical beauties. Both harmonious and subtle, it has framed the view toward the Cabinet Room and the Oval Office and reflected every changing pattern of American history.
But on Saturday, the First Lady unveiled her Rose Garden remake that was meant to bring the space to its original roots. But the redesign received strong backlash on social media with people being far from impressed with the results. The internet dubbed Melania’s makeover “#RoseGardenMassacre,” comparing the result to a lifeless "parking lot." The hashtag is now trending and people have a lot to say about it.
After you're done reading this one, check out our new article on the gardener who stepped in to defend Melania's redesign.
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LS S 5 years ago
The TDS is massive here. 1. The area was NOT handicapped accessible. It was redesigned so now Everybody can experience it (guess that’s only important if a liberal did it). 2. The trees were moved. Jackie never intended them that large and they obstruct the view. 3. It’s another Jackie design, so many of you are accusing Jackie, not Melania. 4. Nobody seems to care that some flowers are now out of season. (Timing of pictures. They rather be manipulated by the media into anger) Sad.
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Mary Padgett 5 years ago
Actually, if you read what they did, they MOVED the trees to a location that they could grow to full maturity without killing off all of the other plants underneath (roses especially) who were never meant to be in shade. Jackie planted them and they were fine for a few decades but are now too large and were in a position that they would damage themselves (not enough space) and everything around it. She simply corrected a bad situation. They aren't chopped down either - they were moved.
Dot Bushman 5 years ago
Thank you Mary Padgett for correcting the knuckle heads who judge without knowing the facts!
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Gabby M 5 years ago
I can only hope the bulbs and trees etc were DUG UP as I would imagine any gardener would do. Perhaps moved to another location.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
Trees may be moved someplace where a little shade would be appreciated. We won't know about the bulbs until Spring. There may be a lovely display.
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Alida Boyes 5 years ago
Why would you cut down Cherry trees that were planted by one of the most famous persons in your history????
Felix Feline 5 years ago
It's a new garden, and it takes time for it to reach its full potential. The crab apple trees (not cherry trees) were shading the roses and other plants and inhibiting their growth. The tulips and muscari shown in the photo on the left don't bloom in August, only in the Spring. Gardens, all gardens, need rejuvenating periodically.
WillemPenn 5 years ago
Where is your evidence they were shading and inhibiting growth? Many flowering plants require the type of dappled light provided by ornamental trees, including flowering bulbs. Boring boxwoods replace a significant portion of the flowers, and the remaining flowers are white and off-white.
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Susan Thomas 5 years ago
It is only as tragic as the person viewing it sees it! It’s all in the eye of the tragic beholder...
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Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
Not that it matters to you, they WERE MOVED, not cut down.
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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Such a sad state, it is sinful, to cut down any trees, but beautiful trees, should be left alone, and I agree, you are leaving soon, but you had to, leave your mess behind, I sincerely hope, the rose garden is restored, I could care less, what a gardener has to say, if he is your gardener, he likely got a bonus !!!
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TheaterNerd 5 years ago
(because it was so hard for me to read for some reason) it says the "white house reveals some newly decorated space that seems to capture melania's joyless screaming on the inside" aesthetic
Ellis Pascual 5 years ago
When our Universal Designer, God, puts plants here and there, nobody says anything pro or con. When a human, like Melania does the design, everybody seems to shout, wrong this, wrong that. Give time for the newly planted landscaping to grow up, and everybody will see the result. Shall we still hear "wrong this, wrong that?" A baby grows up and everybody says, "wow, what a beautiful lovable baby you are." Just let everybody wait for Melania's landscaping design. What they don't know is God, our Loving Universal Designer, will make Melania's design an outstanding beauty.
Molly Kasun 5 years ago
That's hardly a fair assessment. Bette Midler is snarky to her, but what else can you expect from a jealous, fat dumpy lounge signer has-been. I'd think you would be kinder, Jon.
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Hello it Smee 5 years ago (edited)
If there had then it would have at least had some color. Is she planning for husband funeral or what?
jevais 5 years ago
We can hope that he'll blow up like a hot balloon that he looks like and go merrily to another planet.
Load More Replies... Mary Padgett 5 years ago
Actually, if you read what they did, they MOVED the trees to a location that they could grow to full maturity without killing off all of the other plants underneath (roses especially) who were never meant to be in shade. None of the color was removed they have simply been pruned back as part of the process. Also the tulips shown in all of the iconic past images are a spring flower - they don't bloom in summer (it's August now) and the color itself isn't much different than before.
La Petite Morte 5 years ago
There are plenty of late summer/ fall flowers that are colorful, and she chose white and pastels. How can you say that the color isn't much different when you go from bright swaths of color 3/4ths of the year, much like Monet's Gardens at Giverny (which were planted with 3 season flowers and architectural plants for winter) to faded pastels and white? The change is drastic, even comparing the Late Summer/Autumn Rose Garden colors to this.
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Peter Roeder 5 years ago
Note the last name is Buttigieg, Husband of candidate, Pete Buttigieg.
PhantomBuni 5 years ago
I like rainbows and I’m not gay, so maybe just exuberant happy people? Or maybe just people who don’t want the White House to look like a Tim Burton film?
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
what does that mean i don't get it i am still young. People, explain?
Joyce Brazel 5 years ago
YOU SHOULD HAVE WENT WITH THAT YOUNG GUY, GAY OR NOT, INSTEAD OF THAT BRAIN DEAD OLD MAN.
The iconic Rose Garden came to being after President Kennedy and the first lady returned from a state visit to France. In the summer of 1961, they visited the gardener Rachel Lambert Mellon and invited her to bring the space back to life.
In a piece written for the White House Historical Association in the early 1980s, Mellon revealed that “Kennedy noted that the White House had no garden equal in quality or attractiveness to the gardens that he had seen and in which he had been entertained in Europe. There he had recognized the importance of gardens surrounding an official residence and their appeal to the sensibilities of all people.”
The garden was begun in the spring of 1962 and finished at the end of the same year. Most importantly, its creator said that “It was truly President Kennedy’s garden” and he always showed how much he cared about it.
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Hello it Smee 5 years ago
This! What the heck is with her dark depressing style of decorating?
Anthony Murphy 5 years ago
Look at the marriage she's in. It's a reflection of that.
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*eats pancake* 5 years ago
the 2014 one looks warm and inviting. the 2017 one looks like the entrance to a frozen hell
Disgusting Sehun 5 years ago
Honestly, they're such a disgrace to the U.S. as a whole country. I hope people in the future decide to rule him out of history and say that Obama was elected for a 3rd term even though it's not possible. Also, I wanted to see how many morons decided that electing Trump was a good idea here.
MammaG 5 years ago
We have to keep the lesson in order to learn from the mistake. Although Hitler is in the history books, tRump is actually the in the White House I suppose stupid people won't read anyway.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Every time I look at pictures of the ruined—-sorry—-“renovated” Rose Garden, my first thought is “Where TF are the roses”? Then again, we must remember her rows of red “Handmaiden” Christmas trees. A woman of little taste and imagination—-of course, look who she married. Unless drumpf has a meltdown tantrum from sensory overload when he sees too many colors all at once.
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
OK. I am definitely not a fan of the Trumps, but let's be reasonable. Tulips are Spring. They would not be in a pic this time of year. August is typically the end of the rose season when people prune them. Interested to see what this looks like come July 2021. Not a fan of the paving but it does make the garden more accessable to some. Totally agree with you about her Xmas decorations.
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Darwinist 5 years ago
If Trump can't even make the white house better, making america better is a bold statement
Molly Kasun 5 years ago
Where have you BEEN for the past 4 years? Under a rock? Head in the sand? He's made incredible inroads to hugely boost our economy, which translates as '....YOUR WALLET. Mr. Darwinist.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
And removing old growth trees and roses put in by past First Ladies (who actually were ladies) is unconscionable.
Mary Padgett 5 years ago
Ya'll. Read the articles. The trees weren't destroyed. They were cramped and ruining the other items especially the roses. They were relocated to keep them from dying.
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y'all_won't_like_me 5 years ago
haha, i see now... since Trump is doing such an amazing job in the White House and protecting out amazing nation, they've fallen back to bullying his wife for her garden choices... haha, it all makes sense now...
Molly Kasun 5 years ago
Man, these Pandas must be REALLY bored if they find fault with a freaking GARDEN!
H.L.Lewis 5 years ago
When I heard she was redoing the rose garden, I knew nothing good could come of it. Does anyone know if all the plants were just cut down? Or if the actual gardeners were able to dig them up and save them. She should Not have been allowed to do this! I agree it was just wanton destruction.
That Melania Trump took on a task so clearly associated with the Kennedys doesn’t come as a surprise, since President Trump told Fox & Friends that “We have our own Jackie O. It’s called Melania, Melania T.”
Today, the flowers in the garden are largely pastels chosen according to the tastes of the first lady, including taller white roses, which were in honor of the first papal visit to the White House by Pope John Paul II in 1979. The most obvious change to the garden was the addition of a 3-foot-wide limestone walking path bordering the central lawn.
But after the first lady tweeted the first images from her renovation, the new Rose Garden received many mixed reactions.
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OCDRobot 5 years ago
100% it looks like a cemetery now. It's so ugly and sad now. What a disgrace.
Parrot Person 5 years ago
nope i think cemeterys look better (at least the ones i've been to do)
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ISAAC HARVEY 5 years ago
Or, after 2024: "Here resides every lie ever uttered, knowingly or unknowingly, by Trump, the President who never was."
Sharon Ingram 5 years ago
The US is NOT a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. Thank GOD.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Eugene, I am sending you, many hugs, for your excellent comments, well said, good man !!!
Joseph OReilly 5 years ago
Okay, I’ve tried to hold out, but I need to ask. Do you know what socialism is? Do you understand that those checks that trump sent out, that your people have praised as the most generous thing a president has done, is a form of this evil system known as socialism?
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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Well said, I agree, a Huge, disappointment, a disgrace, serious destruction of great beauty !!!
Molly Kasun 5 years ago
I have a feeling you'd better start getting used to her! And weren't you the one with your hand out when the Covid money was passed around? I'm sure you liked him fine the day you got your check!
Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
What's a "natural garden"? If it's natural, it isn't a garden by definition. The rose garden had a ton of problems with it. The drainage was poor, it wasn't wheelchair accessible, you couldn't grow roses well because of the mature trees, and it was poorly designed for the type of the events they wanted to hold. It desperately needed a makeover.
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Mary Padgett 5 years ago
They weren't chopped down. They were moved to a different location to save them and the roses underneath. They should never have been planted there in the first place - it all would have ended up dying. She saved the cherry trees from death. Also, this comparison is from a past spring photo. Tulips don't bloom in summer. None of the actual color has been removed long term.
Jason Doakes 5 years ago
Me reading the title and text right before seeing the pictures; "Come on, there's plenty things goin worse in the White House, we don't need to grasp at str... Wait, these are the before/after pictures? What.The.Whitewashing.Hell happened here?!?"
David Hartmann 5 years ago
Colorful flowers are symbols of diversity. Well, I've never heard such c**p in my life. Mark Twain said politicians and their wives need to be changed as regularly as babies diapers.
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Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
"Soul? We don't need soul! Color? We don't need color!"... and that sums up the Trumps IMHO
Analyn Lahr 5 years ago
When Trump loses the Secret Service better watch him and his ilk to make sure they don't take or destroy anything else.
Chelle R. 5 years ago (edited)
@Analyn Lahr Unfortunately whenever Trump does leave & pray to God we will find out the Great news November 3rd, not soon enough though! To the the point: Unfortunately Trump & his garden destroyer spouse will continue to have secret service for life, just scaled down, all President's receive that perk! Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to fall under the act upon leaving office. The original act provided for a lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents. ... All living former presidents and their spouses after Dwight D. Eisenhower are now entitled to receive lifetime Secret Service protection.
Load More Replies... Downunderdude 5 years ago
Donald is the most disgusting person on earth. But I actually feel sorry for Melania. She never looks happy (how could she, married to him). I may be wrong, but I think she is desperately unhappy.
Ann Rudder 5 years ago
Its a European Sanitorium, beware of guards coming to grab you back inside!
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
i like trees. trees i like. how did they grow so well, green and elegant?
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
The Cult of Personality needs to stay out of politics. No more Reality TV hosts and their nude model trophy wives.
Analyn Lahr 5 years ago
Are we sure Melania isn't some sort of android/sex doll? I mean, is she a real person?
Disgusting Sehun 5 years ago (edited)
I can't understand the logic of people who thought the Trumps were fit to be in their position. They're disgusting liars, manipulators, incredibly stupid, they do NOT think at all, and they're frauds. I used to want to meet the president when I turned 13, but now I don't want to meet any future or past presidents/first ladies except for Mr. and Mrs. Obama. They should've been elected for a 3rd term, which I know is not how it works. I know what I'm talking about. Though I'm only 14, even I could do a better job as president.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Sassy said it well, more than well, actually, extremely well, you go girl !!!
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Googleman1234 5 years ago
I am being totally unironic in this statement, this is not a joke, this is not me being making a joke at melania's expense. The toilet bushes genuinely look ,cooler,more dynamic and overall better then the paved over garden with the unoriginal lack of color.
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Kesam 5 years ago
That makes you an expert, and we all know what the Trumps think about experts! (I use the word "think" very loosely here.)
Googleman1234 5 years ago
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DONE WITH EXPERTS. WE NEED A BROKE REALITY T.V. SHOW HOST WHO IGNORES THE PLAGUE SO PEOPLE DONT WORRY AND PAYS NO TAXES
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Toasty 5 years ago
Also, they weren't removed, they were transplant elsewhere on the grounds.
Load More Replies... Disgusting Sehun 5 years ago
Imagine being hired to do that? I would change my name, my face, my gender, and my race. To Canadian because why not.
Anna Salerno 5 years ago
Hey Claudia the Cherry 🍒 trees were NOT removed they were relocated! Get a grip!!
suzanne werbiski 5 years ago
Seems to me that it would be a lot easier to move the roses to a new area than to relocate mature trees
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kkathleen517 5 years ago
Well everyone who's bitching better not have voted them in. Let's not forget a bunch of people wanted this. Great job everyone
Joseph OReilly 5 years ago
In fairness, trump lost the popular vote by a hilariously huge margin. Not a lot of citizens wanted this, but enough “representatives” did, so they ignored the vote of the people(in what is supposed to be a government run by the people, I might add) and elected trump anyway
Load More Replies... Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
A landscape designer? Then why don't you know that they were crab apple trees -- not cherry trees -- and that you can't grow first-class roses under mature trees? These are not the types of mistakes a real designer would make.
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Death Metal Kitty 5 years ago
In all fairness... even Trump's own sister thinks he's a piece of turd.
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
I actually feel sorry for the rest of the Trumps.... I mean, no one else here can relate to having a national embarrassment on their hands
Joseph OReilly 5 years ago
Whatever that number is(which is largely irrelevant if America is the place you say it is), I can almost guarantee that he worked for it. Trump was given everything he has by his father, who was actually a good businessman, unlike trump himself. All that trump has done is host a failed reality tv show, sell what is largely acclaimed to be the worst steak you can get in a poorly managed hotel, and ruin an entire country through his desire to not be responsible for his actions. I rest my case
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PhantomBuni 5 years ago
New plan: sneak in and rose bush by rose bush, slowly replace it with the original plants
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
Melina Trump and her orange husband are both ugly, rascist disgraces to our country. They need to be put down like the rabid dogs that they are.
Bunny Wood 5 years ago
We can hope that the gardeners have secretly kept all the bulbs and trees somewhere nearby ready to replant once 45 and his dull wife have been given the elbow
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Each time I look at the, before shot, I am shocked at the loss, how could a sane person destroy this great beauty, I did say sane !!!
Ann Rudder 5 years ago
THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL, maybe Jill Biden can restore aspects of design decency
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Kookamunga 5 years ago
Trump: "It was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe." What a delusional egomaniacal moron.
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
Donald Trump = a fat, aroggant, delusional, egomaniacal, anticharismatic moron. Oh, did I forget INTERNATIONAL EMBARASSMENT?!?!
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ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
ahem ahem he is THE PRESIDENT i am done stating my point
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Heather Reynolds Atwood 5 years ago
Well, once again, narrow-minded folks not doing their research! There were few (if any) historical rose bushes left. What was done here really had nothing to do with FLOTUS. Duh!
Claire Robinson 5 years ago
the rose garden was actually first made by Dolley Madison, the first lady from 1809 to 1817. this is just sad. what a disappointment
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
I thought they were, cherry trees, the photo of the garden massacre, actually looks as though it's in mourning !!!
Ann Rudder 5 years ago
Was ANY historic agency contacted prior to this corruption? Permission granted by whom? AND to just read about the roses contributed by earlier First Ladies, and learn of this rewrite is WRONG!
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Watching 5 years ago
Private donors include: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
XianJaguar 5 years ago
Actually, the estate of Jeffrey Epstein would be donating to the Clintons. After all, ol' Bill used to party on pedophile island, and there are pics that prove it. As for the other two, nope, lil' Kimmie and Putin hate Trump.
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Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
It was paid for by private donors. Jeez, Farrow, get your facts straight before posting.
Christian Miller 5 years ago
how about getting out there and Donating food then you rich b***h!
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Good point Mia, actually, if possible, the Americans should have been able, to vote, to make such a tremendous change, then at that time, the people would have voted, to leave it alone !!!
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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Yes Kathryn, I also said, white is for funerals, am I wrong ???
Load More Replies... Rustyn Birch 5 years ago
I think that's the sad and scary message for these four years, "made it all white". :(
Heather Reynolds Atwood 5 years ago
Nope, no cherry trees there-just dying crab-apples, just like the dems
jevais 5 years ago
When you're friends with Jeffrey Epstein it's impossible to be a real Christian.
XianJaguar 5 years ago
True. But we all knew that about Bill Clinton when he was caught with Monica in the Oval Office.
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Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
They didn't cut down the trees, they move them. And they weren't cherry trees.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Because they would’ve preferred Nixon over Kennedy. But even Pat Nixon knew better than to cut down Jackie’s trees!
Googleman1234 5 years ago
AH SHORE DO MISS DA DAYS WEN AH CUD TEHL AH BLACKIE THA A NEGRO LIKE EM SHUD BE USIN DA BLACK WATAH FOUNTAN
Stephanie Ashley 5 years ago
Wow! Y’all are the ugliest, nastiest people I have ever read comments from. Would you want your kids, or your mothers, reading the hateful things that you’ve written?
Sakeena 5 years ago
Not sure you understand what hateful really looks like.
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Aoibhneas Bergher 5 years ago
Also, she could have been raising money for something worthwhile, like food banks, but no. She raised money so she could erase history
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Dragonfruit'nrollerskates 5 years ago
Goli soda, nobody needs that pro-trump negativity today. Thanks.
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
Thank you for brining us back to reality, John. Someone needs to realized that people are dying and the Trumps are doing nothing to stop it. Did you know that the President gets test every day for COVID-19? He uses handsanitizer, will be the first person to get the vaccine, and no one is allowed within 6 feet of him. He knows EXACTLY how to stop this pandemic. He just doesn't give a S**T about YOU.
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago (edited)
YOU HEARD THAT COMMENT ON CHINA??? UNACCEPTABLE @GOLI SODA UNACCEPTABLE
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GOLI SODA WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ABOUT CHINA I SWEAR MY RAGE WILL FOLLOW YOU
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PhantomBuni 5 years ago
Erm, nice bloody spikes ya got there, maybe from somewhere we don’t want to know about? Just like that paper towel skirt and matching q tips?
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago (edited)
DID YOU SEE WHAT GOLI SODA SAID ABOUT CHINA ON #24??? UNBELIEVEABLE UNACCEPTABLE NEVER IN MY LIFE
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Juririn 5 years ago
Cemeteries in Eastern Europe are really vibrant, full of color, trees and flowers and singing birds, they tell stories and are not, suprisingly, somber or sad, they are not barren and devoid of feeling and Melania should know that if she had a shred of humanity in her; this new "garden" looks like an uneducated thruster's idea of "sophistication".
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Kesam 5 years ago
This is mostly about symbolism. People are dying and she talks about the rose garden. The comparison with Marie Antoinette really hits the nail on the head.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
She could go into cemetery landscaping—-since she’ll have to find a job when drumpf goes to prison and all his assets are RICO’d. And she’s now too old for the “modeling” she used to do.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Now after all this time, frump would not , turn in his financial information, I wonder how it will turn out, how did he get away with, not giving the information, it boggles my mind ???
Load More Replies... Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
Those colors existed for a few weeks in the spring. You think tulips bloom all year long?
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
All white. Like he envisions the US—-a country built by diverse groups of immigrants. Including his ancestors, and his wife.
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
Donald Trumps main goal in life is to import all the illegal immagrents back to "where they belong." If that happens, it's only a matter of time before black people like me are shipped off to Africa.
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Heather Reynolds Atwood 5 years ago
I guess Mia can't tell the difference between a crab apple (which was dying) and a cherry tree.
ShareMusic 5 years ago
In public gardens like this, tulips are treated as an annual and new bulbs are planted every year. The loss of the trees are what's really sad.
staygoldponyboy 5 years ago
Actually, the CRABAPPLE trees were simply relocated to other areas. If you have ever had a CRABAPPLE tree in your yard, you know: 1) they are beautiful, messy trees; 2) they require a lot of maintenance, 3) they are not CHERRY trees, and 4) any CRABAPPLE tree planted in the 1960's would be much bigger than those that were relocated.
Felix Feline 5 years ago
You have to be down-voted for stating a fact. "Where are the tulips? That monster Melania killed them!"
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ISAAC HARVEY 5 years ago
Probably so her 'husband' can golf whilst not having to endure the pain of walking anywhere else...
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Marin Pasaric 5 years ago
I guess it's just an expression of her inner self, entirely devoid of color and joy.
Missy Corron 5 years ago
Anybody else see M in the border? Isn’t there a law about defacing government property?
Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
Why are you comparing a garden in that one week in spring when everything's in bloom to a garden in August?
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AntiNutjob 5 years ago
Trump never added Obama's portrait to the grand foyer as is long tradition. Now he has moved Bush and Clinton's portraits as well. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/17/white-house-moves-clinton-bush-portraits-into-little-used-room/
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago
Exactly people won't vote for him. However, Electoral Collage will vote for him regardless of how much lead VP Biden has. These are republicans, the most wretched, greedy, power-hungry, evil beings.
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Marek Yanchurak 5 years ago
Rob Delaney's a comedian. Pretty sure he's being sarcastic about the final straw thing.
Load More Replies... Disgusting Sehun 5 years ago
I'm sorry. You VOTED for him?! Absolutely disgusting. My disappointment is disappointed. It makes no sense to vote for someone who has the audacity to alter a HUGE part of history. I'm sorry, but this doesn't fly with me.
Niko Alarcon 5 years ago
" My disappointment is disappointed." Absolutely sent me lmao. i love that
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Dawn Murin 5 years ago
Of all the reasons to not vote for Trump, *this* was your "final straw"? 0_o
Tracey Tait 5 years ago
I certainly support you not voting for him but this, THIS is the "last straw" nothing else bothered ya enough to say "nah, dude"
Dori Semenov 5 years ago
It took you a destroyed rose garden to not vote for the son of Satan? He is trying to destroy our democracy for the benefit of his ego. He should be in jail.
PhantomBuni 5 years ago
Uhhhh, sorry, son of Satan? He’s going to Hell AFTER he goes to prison.
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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Thanks Kathryn, I love the way you think !!!
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Louloubelle 5 years ago
Their history won't be erased. We will remember lord dampnut and his evil crone of a wife for many years.
Violet Radar 5 years ago
I think she knew it was horribly inappropriate and that's why she did it. I used to feel sorry for her until I realized she's as awful as he is and this is undoubtedly her final "I really don't care, do you?" to Americans.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Erasing beauty, to leave her, mark of ugliness, let's celebrate a long waiting departure soon !!!
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Well, what TF does the drumpf family know about a kitchen garden? They don’t even know where the kitchen is.
Bobby Sammons 5 years ago
Sure they do. It is what is in the back at McDonalds.
Load More Replies... Rebekah 5 years ago
Let's take a moment and appreciate this photo of a lovely woman, working with kids, out in regular clothes, all normal and inspirational. And human.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Oh, I had forgotten, Michelle's garden, shame on me, I so wish, Barack Obama, and Michelle, were still in the white house, and, I am Canadian, but I watched them, and respected them !!!
Dennis Sigut 5 years ago
Well, that was because you can't grow a taco bowl or Big Mac in a garden...
Jamie Brennan 5 years ago
Thought it was the people's garden. Whoever is FLOTUS has the right to change it.
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
All Donald Trump knows how to do is f*ck sh*t up. That's LITERALLY IT. And his WIFE is JUST AS BAD. Maybe that's why they got married.
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Jo Johannsen 5 years ago
Puleeease... we are not her (or his) citizens. We are citizens of the US who made a bad choice and are now paying for it.
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Destructive overspending craze because she knows her time is coming to an end.
Jamie Brennan 5 years ago
OMG is he really responsible for everything? You people need to get a grip!
#35
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Once they’re gone, the next First Lady will need to replace the trees with seedlings grown from cuttings of the originals. Thing is, it’ll take 60 years to get them to where they were before she cut them down.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Yes indeed, that makes it much worse, the time it will take, to regrow, what did she do with the trees and plants ???
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sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
For people who are happy, don't look at this, you will be severely depressed, we should get a print, of the before photo, hang it up to remember, the history behind it !!!
Analyn Lahr 5 years ago
There's nothing to look at and enjoy. That defeats the purpose of a garden.
#36
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
That turf is pathetic, I have put some down myself, it looked much better than this, and I am no gardener, but they have one, paid well I am sure !!!
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Grass and pavement. The two most ecologically destructive landscaping features.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Yes Kathryn, you keep bringing up, huge important issues, I agree, it still boggles my mind, as I ask again, how could, a sane person, massacre so much beauty, I love nature, and all animals, but when someone, creates beauty, it shouldn't be destroyed, it was meant to be enjoyed by everyone !!!
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Dennis Sigut 5 years ago
I don't see any wheelchair ramps in the photo. Probably because Drumfp can't walk down them very well....
#38
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Yes! She cut down—-murdered—-old growth trees planted 60 years ago!
Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
Crab apple trees have a limited life span. When these reach their life they become bug infected.
Load More Replies... XianJaguar 5 years ago
Crabapple. A nuisance tree that is very messy, and drops messy small crabapples all over the sidewalks so that wheel-chair bound people can't use the sidewalk without a million bumps and getting their wheels all covered in c**p.
Load More Replies... Jamie Brennan 5 years ago
The trees were not destroyed. They were taken to be moved elsewhere.
#39
Kookamunga 5 years ago
Goli Soda, why b***h about the Obamas? Barack isn't currently in office. Instead we have a orange sociopath and his gold digging wife.
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
@Goli, trust me, the hatred of Trump is FAR, far from "blind".....there are literally dozens of reasons to strongly dislike that man, no one has blinders on except his blind followers who act as if his every move is perfect.
Load More Replies... shado 5 years ago
I call 'fake news' on the Big Orange Turd's claim to be 'giving away' (??) his presidential paycheck ... I can't see him letting go of a single cent if and when ever he can get away with it
Pusfarm 5 years ago
Yep! Money and himself are the only two things he loves!
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Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
I like how even simple statements of facts are downgraded if they're inconvenient.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
The tax payer's money. Or did you really think that Trump would spend one cent of his own money on something that will never give him any profit?
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
“Empty and bleak like her husband’s presidency”. And our lives for the last 3 years, 7 months. Vote BLUE and we could see a light at the end of a very dark, dank, stinking tunnel.
Jamie Brennan 5 years ago
Why are all the pictures from Spring? Of course it was full of color then but those tulips have not been around for a few months. Try to get some newer before pictures please!
Colleen Garland 5 years ago
And like her personality. I'd like to feel sorry for her but F*** you, you get what you deserve.
K.Kobayashi 5 years ago
Look past the tulips, and you'll notice many rose bushes have been removed.
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Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
i hope the next president replants some nice flowers so the garden is diverse, not just stupid grass and WHITE flowers.
#42
Linda Spidel 5 years ago
Before M.T. Destroyed the rose garden that was beautiful. Now it's dead with no life like the frumps that live there now.
Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
Once again, comparing a garden in that one week in spring when everything is blooming to a newly installed garden in August.
#43
ChinaPandas122 5 years ago
i almost laughed at this comment but i did not for that someone insulted china so bad i cried and my nose started bleeding because of anger
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M O'Connell 5 years ago
Marie Antoinette did have a pastoral chateau constructed on the Versailles grounds where she could pretend to order peasants around, the 'Petit Trianon'
Stewart Trickett 5 years ago
We're in an economic depression. This work helped to stimulate the economy. It's precisely the time the work should be done.
#44
Amelia Earhart 5 years ago
Completely misses the point of a garden... she has made it no more than landscaping for a walkway.
Daria Z 5 years ago
I sort of like both versions... but what do I understand in gardening living in a city?
Lyra Rey 5 years ago
Where in this tweet does it say a single word about tulips and crabapple trees?
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Aria Whitaker 5 years ago (edited)
She STILL took out the beautiful Cherry trees, the gorgeous tulips and Lilacs, and replaced with a bunch of boring white flowers and squat bushes. Come on...it is horrid, no matter the season. Those boring white things will look no more colorful or bright in the summer.
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#45
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Well, the fact of it being historical means you leave it the f**k alone. Maintain it, don’t level it.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Impeccable taste? She always dresses like some runway model who accidentally stumbled into the White House on her way to a fashion show. She never looks the part of First Lady.
Elizabeth VanDyke 5 years ago
You think Melanoma has "impeccable" taste? Look at what she married. Look at her ugly squinty-eyed face. I guess you didn't see her nude pictures with her hands over her pussy....probably to try to protect it from Mango Monkey. Who is after all, the repukes hero who is going to make America great again. I hope they both die long and painful deaths and all the repukes who enabled them receive the same.
Ann Rudder 5 years ago
Uh Oh Meghan, I thought YOU had impeccable Reason...but now not so much
Hazel Gray 5 years ago
The fact that you think she has impeccable taste tells me that you are incrediblally stupid
Harley Hoglin 5 years ago
Pro-Jim Crow anti-black and thus anti-American statues are in no way historical or important. All that proSouth c**p shouldn't have been put up.
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Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
Oh, she’s probably spinning her way out of her grave. Hope she haunts Melania.
M O'Connell 5 years ago
I just hope Lady Bird Johnson is spinning in the same direction, lest they cancel each other out. (She championed the beautification of public places)
#47
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Even a cemetery can look more inviting. Hell, she didn’t even put in any statuary to break up the monotony—-though I shudder to think of what kind of statues she’d pick.
Elijah Kenny 5 years ago
Judging by her design choices, probably tombstones
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She made it a f*****g cemetery then "plant" a cross for every American who died from COVID 19!
#48
#49
Colleen Garland 5 years ago
I think that may be one of the first thing done. I hope someone there (garden people) kept them in a safe place.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Enough with the sick trees! The trees were removed for the VIEW, not their health. OK? OK. It's in the press statement on the reno.
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Mama Panda 5 years ago
I am really getting tired of entertainers bitching about homelessness and hunger in the US but will instead rally for support for other countries. Don't get me wrong, I know there are needy people across the globe. My problem is that they will point fingers at people they don't like and accuse them of not helping the problem yet they refuse to help as well. If you don't fix your backyard, you have no business fixing others' backyards.
Dori Semenov 5 years ago
I'm no expert on Mia Farrow but a lot of celebrities put serious time and money into charities and doing "good". They don't necessarily promote it.
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Aoibhneas Bergher 5 years ago
And again, she could have been raising money for something worthwhile but instead she spent her time and energy on destroying a garden that everyone loved
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#62
Downunderdude 5 years ago
Well, guys, you know what the French did to their self-styled Sun King... Get on with it, willya?
#65
#79
Aoibhneas Bergher 5 years ago
There were roses there planted by more than a century of First Ladies. This wasn't a renovation or a restoration. It was an erasure
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
The original design sucked. Oh, and the trees are gone ALL YEAR LONG.... BTW, it was already ADA compliant! (The vitality of plants requires they be removed?!... Wow.) SO much wrong in this remark.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
That tweet above, not my remark, altho' fair is fair, I'm no sweetie on a Monday.
Load More Replies... WillemPenn 5 years ago
(1) "to bring back the original design" and remind us of a time when slaves were forced to build the White (only) House. (2) "ensure vitality of the plants" - pretty sure digging them up and replacing them did nothing for their vitality and (3) space can be made accessible without completely taxing it.
XianJaguar 5 years ago
No , unfortunately they couldn't. Crabapple trees drop all sorts of sticky, bumpy fruit on the ground, which makes it harder for wheel-chair bound people to get around. This renovation helps differently-abled people.
Load More Replies... sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Bottom line is, she wanted, to leave her mark, make a statement,she can do as she damned well wants to, just like her husband, if her point was, to make people angry, she did a good job, she has no class, only thinks of herself, like her husband, two of a kind !!!
Ann Rudder 5 years ago
gee, more expense, the location cannot be called "the rose garden", where in the sterility of the design are her planted white roses? Haven't seen one yet!
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Cori 5 years ago
My grandparents had a beautiful flowering dogwood tree in their front yard. They are iconic in the city where they lived (Quincy, IL). After my grandpa died, my grandma sold the house and moved to Florida. The first thing the new owners did was cut down the dogwood. This reminds me of that. They probably tore out my grandpa's roses as well. I don't know. We couldn't stand to drive by any more after that.
Taibhse Sealgair 5 years ago
I have no problem with people having an opinion, but they should at least get their facts straight. The rose garden has had the so called "central lawn" since it's redesign by Rachel Lambert Mellon in 1961. So no real change there. (Just carefully and deceptively cropped photos.) Those weren't cherry trees. They were crabapples. And the sidewalks were required by the ADA, which, yes, even the White House has to follow. So in summary: same layout, old crabapples removed, federally required sidewalks installed. Grrrr, the outrage.
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Still looks hideous...even with the "facts straight".....and yes, having it go from soulful, bright and full of color to....this......YES grrrrrr....the outrage is right.
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ShareMusic 5 years ago
A lot of the comments I've read show a lack of public gardening knowledge. For example, in public gardens, tulips are treated as annuals and new bulbs are planted every year. After they're done blooming in spring, they're dug up, thrown away, and replaced with summer annuals. D.C. is warm enough to have winter annuals such as pansies and flowering kale.
ShareMusic 5 years ago
Tulips grown in residential gardens last only a few seasons before they quit blooming. That is, if they survive being munched on by chipmunks and rabbits. I gave up tulips in favor of daffodils and narcissuses because they're poisonous to wildlife and they reproduce.
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Joe Blowe 5 years ago
The trees were crabapple trees and were blocking the sun from the flowers (roses) that depend on large amounts of light. The trees were transplanted elsewhere. The sidewalks were uneven and lopsided. The roses have been deadheaded (pruned) so that they may continue to grow.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
And the bulbs have been removed so there's nary a crocus nor tulip to be found.
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Hans 5 years ago
Frankly, a few of these postings make fun of Trump (and Melania). This is fine. Many over-dramatically play the "I am oooof sooo offended" card. A garden re-design typically means removing stuff. Whether you like the new garden or not is a matter of personal choice. Interestingly, those people who are offended most probably do what helps Trump the most: taking unimportant topics as this as a decoy to get people wondering about the real issues.
Al Jones 5 years ago
I agree, this is a personal choice and you either like it or you don't. There are enough things to get outraged about atm without getting upset about a garden.
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Mad Mar 5 years ago
Hope people understand the trees are in the greenhouse and not destroyed. And the rose bloom in May not August. So give it a season an see how it looks. Also it's nice there is pathways for disabled folks to use. Everyone hates on her for just trying to do a nice thing.
Nianudd 5 years ago
We have roses blooming now, and I'm a c**p gardener. And the trees are already shedding their leaves here
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Toasty 5 years ago
I just read more into this and this is what I found. Every administration has done some sort of change to the garden, it is pretty much expected. The recent changes include better drainage system for healthier plants, and for the first time, access for the physically impaired. The crabapple trees which were removed were replanted elsewhere on the property. Melania does prefer pastel colors so the scheme may not be as vibrant as prior, but it is worth noting that most of the flowers were just planted, and anyone who knows anything about flowers knows that it takes tome for the plants root systems to take hold, and only after that will it fully bloom. Furthermore, the before pictures were taken in spring (tulips bloom only in spring), which adds a tremendous amounof color which wouldn't be showing now
Toasty 5 years ago
I do not like the Trumps. I am simply pointing out how blinded people have willingly become. You can see only want you allow yourself to see.
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Piet Zwanenburg 5 years ago
The tulips and trees were a mess, now the columns and the building look way better, why hide them? And no, I do not like Trump, or his wife, but this garden is simply modern, and not half bad.
Electric Ed 5 years ago
I've seen the old version only in photos on this page - but that did look like the typical amateur garden: just plant what ever you can find at a discount in the local garden center. I guess there were emotional and historical values with the old one. But this new version fits the location better. The White house is not a friendly, cuddly place. One of the places where the world's future is decided. This new garden echoes that nicely.
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Ginny Weasley 5 years ago
Yes, I do think sidewalks were needed for the disabled, but even then, why have the sidewalks if there isn't any color to look at??
Cori 5 years ago
My grandparents had a beautiful flowering dogwood tree in their front yard. They are iconic in the city where they lived (Quincy, IL). After my grandpa died, my grandma sold the house and moved to Florida. The first thing the new owners did was cut down the dogwood. This reminds me of that. They probably tore out my grandpa's roses as well. I don't know. We couldn't stand to drive by any more after that.
Taibhse Sealgair 5 years ago
I have no problem with people having an opinion, but they should at least get their facts straight. The rose garden has had the so called "central lawn" since it's redesign by Rachel Lambert Mellon in 1961. So no real change there. (Just carefully and deceptively cropped photos.) Those weren't cherry trees. They were crabapples. And the sidewalks were required by the ADA, which, yes, even the White House has to follow. So in summary: same layout, old crabapples removed, federally required sidewalks installed. Grrrr, the outrage.
Aria Whitaker 5 years ago
Still looks hideous...even with the "facts straight".....and yes, having it go from soulful, bright and full of color to....this......YES grrrrrr....the outrage is right.
Load More Replies... ShareMusic 5 years ago
A lot of the comments I've read show a lack of public gardening knowledge. For example, in public gardens, tulips are treated as annuals and new bulbs are planted every year. After they're done blooming in spring, they're dug up, thrown away, and replaced with summer annuals. D.C. is warm enough to have winter annuals such as pansies and flowering kale.
ShareMusic 5 years ago
Tulips grown in residential gardens last only a few seasons before they quit blooming. That is, if they survive being munched on by chipmunks and rabbits. I gave up tulips in favor of daffodils and narcissuses because they're poisonous to wildlife and they reproduce.
Load More Replies... Joe Blowe 5 years ago
The trees were crabapple trees and were blocking the sun from the flowers (roses) that depend on large amounts of light. The trees were transplanted elsewhere. The sidewalks were uneven and lopsided. The roses have been deadheaded (pruned) so that they may continue to grow.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
And the bulbs have been removed so there's nary a crocus nor tulip to be found.
Load More Replies... Hans 5 years ago
Frankly, a few of these postings make fun of Trump (and Melania). This is fine. Many over-dramatically play the "I am oooof sooo offended" card. A garden re-design typically means removing stuff. Whether you like the new garden or not is a matter of personal choice. Interestingly, those people who are offended most probably do what helps Trump the most: taking unimportant topics as this as a decoy to get people wondering about the real issues.
Al Jones 5 years ago
I agree, this is a personal choice and you either like it or you don't. There are enough things to get outraged about atm without getting upset about a garden.
Load More Replies... Mad Mar 5 years ago
Hope people understand the trees are in the greenhouse and not destroyed. And the rose bloom in May not August. So give it a season an see how it looks. Also it's nice there is pathways for disabled folks to use. Everyone hates on her for just trying to do a nice thing.
Nianudd 5 years ago
We have roses blooming now, and I'm a c**p gardener. And the trees are already shedding their leaves here
Load More Replies... Toasty 5 years ago
I just read more into this and this is what I found. Every administration has done some sort of change to the garden, it is pretty much expected. The recent changes include better drainage system for healthier plants, and for the first time, access for the physically impaired. The crabapple trees which were removed were replanted elsewhere on the property. Melania does prefer pastel colors so the scheme may not be as vibrant as prior, but it is worth noting that most of the flowers were just planted, and anyone who knows anything about flowers knows that it takes tome for the plants root systems to take hold, and only after that will it fully bloom. Furthermore, the before pictures were taken in spring (tulips bloom only in spring), which adds a tremendous amounof color which wouldn't be showing now
Toasty 5 years ago
I do not like the Trumps. I am simply pointing out how blinded people have willingly become. You can see only want you allow yourself to see.
Load More Replies... Piet Zwanenburg 5 years ago
The tulips and trees were a mess, now the columns and the building look way better, why hide them? And no, I do not like Trump, or his wife, but this garden is simply modern, and not half bad.
Electric Ed 5 years ago
I've seen the old version only in photos on this page - but that did look like the typical amateur garden: just plant what ever you can find at a discount in the local garden center. I guess there were emotional and historical values with the old one. But this new version fits the location better. The White house is not a friendly, cuddly place. One of the places where the world's future is decided. This new garden echoes that nicely.
Load More Replies... Ginny Weasley 5 years ago
Yes, I do think sidewalks were needed for the disabled, but even then, why have the sidewalks if there isn't any color to look at??
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