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Fucking disgusting
Are these the Epstein files?! 😶
Epstein Tiles
No but they are buried underneath.
I’m torn - while I’m not a fan of the new look, I’m also viciously anti-lawn-grass so I can’t complain too much.
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At least it gives him a hard surface to break some brittle old bones on if he falls over.
A girl can dream
That would be some excellent karma!
I was expecting it to be vulgarly gilded. The orange utan is letting himself go.
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.
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.
It’s a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.
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!
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
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ugly and only heat, i do not see the better for this nonsense
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 don’t see why pavement is worse than manicured grass
Because it’s a garden?
That being said pre Wilson, it actually had garden beds where the lawn was.
Also ask yourself in the context of a garden, what is better vegetation than grass to walk on?
It’s ugly and trashy
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Ants can and do live in paved spaces. There is a layer of sand under the slabs that is easy for them to excavate tunnels from, with the entrance between two slabs.
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It’s the white house. It gets sprayed for insects anyway.
They should spray a lot more, plenty of bugs there.
You need to get the 12 gauge spray for the kind of bug you’re thinking of.
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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.
Someone should create a fuckgrass community so all the virtue signalling can be contained.
I think there are communities like that… but for replacing lawn with native plants not paving them over lmao
Gross. It looks like an open air mall food court.
They paved paradise and put up some pavement…
Subtitle to the story of civilization
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!
Truely mild compared to all the scientific executions that happened
It must be strange to only have the grift / destroy setting and no other desire. Tyrant.
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.
