I cannot tell a lie. Melania chopped down the cherry trees and made the Rose Garden all white — make of that what you will. Melania promised “a significant renewal” of the Rose Garden in July. Today that “renewal” was unveiled. You see what you think of it.
This is John Kennedy Jr. in 1963.
In front of the trees that are now gone. ? pic.twitter.com/bEfF6AoepV— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 22, 2020
I'm afraid not. Here's an aerial photo. Looks like a cemetery. @FLOTUS ruined it. #ETTD pic.twitter.com/KzCpTCc4PR
— Eric Slater (@ericsslater) August 22, 2020
You destroyed our garden! How DARE you! Do you have no appreciation of history? Do you have no understanding of America, of what this gorgeous place MEANT?! Your tasteless, crass, white-power mindset is disgusting.
Get out of OUR house! It's not yours to destroy!
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 22, 2020
This is basically raping the land, but it doesn’t surprise me in the least coming from the mentality of the people who currently infest the People’s House. Do you recall this debacle?
This looks like something out of a horror movie. But stark and barren appear to be Melania’s tastes. She has no chic. This is the woman who went on a state visit to the UK and greeted the queen barelegged and didn’t know enough to take her hat off upon entering the palace. She didn’t know that you don’t greet the Queen of England dressed like a Piccadilly tart and that you don’t wear a hat inside someone’s home. And then later she put on that bizarre yellow gown that made her look like something out of a road show of Beauty & the Beast.
These people can’t leave soon enough. They are trash with cash.
At least the Christmas decorations could be removed. The trees and flowers that were destroyed in the Rose Garden are another matter altogether.
This is her sole contribution as first lady? Destroying an already beautiful garden and taking out iconic cherry trees. Be Best at fucking things up!
Yeah, this is BeBest. Wonder what ever happened to BeBest?
I think she misspelled BeBeast
How many other 1st ladies have gone through the WH and not touched that garden?! Then 3rd wife of 45 comes along and there is now a mausoleum of plants put in. Maybe there will be color. Maybe the trees were decaying. Maybe. But all of it!!!!!!!!!! WTF. What’s the signal she’s sending.
Third-rate fashion-model tastes: no tradition is sacred.
Speaking of destroying the Rose Garden, there was one little news article last week that the Interior Secretary is going to open the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing. They will have two times when bids can be placed. They slipped this in when the PO mess was going on so no one would notice. I called my members of Congress to complain. If you can call yours too it would be great. I cannot believe that they are going to destroy this national treasure.
There are so many news stories that don’t get the attention they deserve and this arctic refuge story is one of them. I was appalled. The last I knew there was a legal challenge, which may slow things down a little. Biden will need to get right on this.
Ursula, I shudder to think how many crises Biden will need to “get right on!” His administration is going to have an action-packed First 100 Days. And things will only get worse as tRump and his minions take a wrecking ball to everything in sight after he loses the election. Lord have mercy!
This belongs in Architectural Indigestion
As Lovecraft said about Victorian architecture, her alterations “exceed the bounds of taste, comprehension and profanity alike.”
On brand for the white supremacist ice queen, yes? Eff it, we’ll just have to redo it when we kick her and her POS husband out.
Another item to add to the growing list for Biden’s First 100 Days: undo Melania’s Rose Garden Nightmare! In a nation suffering from tornadoes, hurricanes, “Derechos” and brush fires: Do. Not. Cut. Down. Trees! ?????
Sterile, cold and ugly.
An accurate mirror of her soul, in other words.
I recall all this talk about fluency in something like seven languages (which she has never attempted to prove by holding a conversation with a journalist fluent in anything but English (hers isn’t all that great even in that it seems) and of course her native language. Multiple degrees too, one of which I think was supposed to be design. Again, there doesn’t seem to be an independently verified proof of any of it – only that she took some courses. Maybe one of them was in the Architecture of Albert Speer. It’s said of his grand stadium design that he wanted spectators to feel nothing. I’m thinking “Melanie” missed the mark if her sterile design was supposed to accomplish that because it’s causing widespread disgust, revulsion and other quite strong negative emotions!
Cemetery? Maybe that is where the bodies are buried. NCIS and Ducky need to get in there with that xray machine on wheels.
‘They are trash with cash.’
Except they don’t have their own cash.
The cash they have is ours, stolen off us.
Among others, including several Republican wealthy donors who are repaying the insult by keeping their checkbooks closed.
Not surprising. If you want to get an idea of the Third Lady’s decorating style look pictures of the Trump tower penthouse.
White trash Versailles.
i especially recall all of those red Christmas trees. Melania has never been anything but a slut with no talent for anything except to pose in the nude.
From what I have heard (read), she doesn’t really have talent for that either.
What a travesty! The crab apple trees were installed b the Kennedys, and the roses by various first ladies over the decades. History, gone. But who cares, right?
From First Lady to First Parking Attendant. How much did giving Melania this little hobby to justify her existence cost American taxpayers? We cannot tell a lie, she chopped down the cherry trees. She broke America’s cherries.
There really MUST be a law passed to prevent Republicans from destroying our national treasures!
Seriously, this crap of undoing everything the prior tenant did just because you CAN has GOT to STOP! ALL of it! Norms must become laws, for top two spots as well!!!
That’s assuming, of course, that they don’t steal another one. Because if they DO — and they are expert at stealing elections — we are all fodder, Trump will come after every body and McConnell will facilitate — nothing new except number of dead!
I have no words.
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/president-kennedys-rose-garden
That’s assuming, of course, that they don’t steal another one. Because if they DO — and they are expert at stealing elections — we are all fodder, Trump will come after every body and McConnell will facilitate