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Trumps making a big change to the White House grounds and says hell pay for it himself
President Trump unveiled his latest plans to shake up the White House grounds on Wednesday announcing he will pay for two large flagpoles.
The president came out of the residence in the morning to survey the grounds on the north side and was spotted with groundskeepers, who were spreading their arms, showing just how large the flags were going to be.
Were putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side and another one on the other side, two flags, top of the line, he later told reporters outside the White House.
They needed flagpoles for 200 years. It was something Ive often said, you know, they dont have a flagpole per se. So were putting one right where you saw us, and were putting another one on the other side, on top of the mounds. Its going to be two beautiful poles.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/trump-announces-self-funded-change-to-white-house/

Bettie
(18,180 posts)ugly piece of crap doesn't pay for anything.
Wounded Bear
(61,764 posts)other people's money.
Botany
(73,901 posts)Gotta spend some of that money. BTW The White House says America loud enough.
I cringe about just how tacky that Krasnov will make it look.
greatauntoftriplets
(177,527 posts)
Botany
(73,901 posts)
greatauntoftriplets
(177,527 posts)I've seen photos of the buildings' interiors. They're understated and appropriate for a relaxing country location. There's not much, if any, gold. What an idiot.
Botany
(73,901 posts)
If you cant be happy here the problem is with you. Btw I do landscape design and work.
greatauntoftriplets
(177,527 posts)I've worked with land planners who didn't want their design to overwhelm the natural landscape, but add to it. drumpf always wants to overdo everything. Just look at the Oval Office lately.
Botany
(73,901 posts)I tried to help my niece who bought a house to be in the Shenandoah Area of VA /Woodstock, VA
(400 miles away) a couple of years ago until she got nasty to me and so I finished the first part of
what I was doing and left so she had the lawn care guy come in and finish up the landscape. (Btw
I had planned the work to be a 2 year project). The gravel road and the native rock was all a slate
grey but he came in with this white rock and granite cobbles that didnt match the surroundings @
all and looks like tacky crap. She also let all these wonderful native plants die because she didnt
water them.
She also had her lawn care guy put in some burning bush and day lilies too. Non native invasive
crap that I have been fighting for years.
underpants
(190,043 posts)
Botany
(73,901 posts)
greatauntoftriplets
(177,527 posts)That's a shame that your niece's landscaping turned into the kind of crap that every homebuilder plants instead of the native species that you had planned. It's particularly bad when it's done in a place of great natural beauty like the Shenandoah Valley where nature should be preserved and enhanced.
At the same time, it's good that you walked away vs. taking her crap.
Botany
(73,901 posts)Although I saw her one more time @ the house and she tried some team building crap
on me. How do you see us moving forward together? She even tried calling my aging
mother with dementia and asked her if she had paid me anything on the project in order
to get out of paying me for my work and materials. That left my mom sad, confused, and
upset and then she sent me an invitation to her wedding. Which I skipped @ which she tied
into my son about what a shit I was.
greatauntoftriplets
(177,527 posts)I'm sorry that she took it out on other people like your mother and son.
a kennedy
(33,312 posts)He was the King of design.
Botany
(73,901 posts)You can still see Jensens work in and around Chicago.
a kennedy
(33,312 posts)
a kennedy
(33,312 posts)rich7862
(449 posts)FSogol
(47,297 posts)Is he going to paint it gold next? What a tacky person.
underpants
(190,043 posts)Im sure they have high tech surveillance but it could obscure their out look.
rich7862
(449 posts)MineralMan
(148,899 posts)I can see one from my house. How cool, dude!
rsdsharp
(10,677 posts)underpants
(190,043 posts)The pic at the link (NY Post) looks like the head groundskeeper is pointing at it saying, theres one there already.
mercuryblues
(15,563 posts)If you want, you can get a flag that flew over the WH. Contact your Congressman or senator. It costs about $30.
Then I remembered everything with trump is transactional. If he buys the poles and flags, he can fly a "trump" flag on the WH grounds for a good piece of change and keep the money for himself.
tinymontgomery
(2,816 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:49 PM - Edit history (1)
I could have had a flag fly over the White House, like you said, or over the USS Constitution which is the oldest commissioned war ship.
I didn't want one from the house Bush was living in so I chose the Constitution, I don't regret it to this day. Nice small shadow box and certificate to go with it.
Kid Berwyn
(20,039 posts)Dipshit paved the Rose Garden.
underpants
(190,043 posts)But hes planning on it.
Kid Berwyn
(20,039 posts)Destroying America from the ground up.
Traildogbob
(10,982 posts)As Rocky and ammo filled bandolier and Assault rifle up there high for long range visual of who the King is. JFK Jr healed his spurs. Raw milk and mercury filled fish.
Ars Longa
(141 posts)
Except super HUGE!!


Traildogbob
(10,982 posts)A MAGA wet dream.
yardwork
(66,311 posts)Will the flagpoles be gold?
dweller
(26,437 posts) came out of the residence in the morning to survey the grounds on the north side and was spotted with groundskeepers, who were spreading their arms, showing just how large the flags were going to be.
Like a plantation owner
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C_U_L8R
(47,143 posts)We see you, Trump. Gaudy, tacky, tasteless, vainglorious, disgusting.
There's nothing worse than a phony patriot strutting his stuff, shooting his mouth off and waving his fucking flags.
dalton99a
(88,256 posts)EndlessWire
(7,732 posts)That's why he's claiming to own the poles himself. He'll fly his own flags. Like Hitler. Next comes the armbands.
Don't worry. We can take them down once he's gone.
dem4decades
(12,669 posts)He's so low rent.
LudwigPastorius
(12,252 posts)The "another one" flag:
Cheezoholic
(2,873 posts)dweller
(26,437 posts)
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unblock
(55,017 posts)underpants
(190,043 posts)He was probably flying in on Marine One and it popped into his head
Stallion
(6,634 posts)Come and Take It?
Russian Flag?
HAB911
(9,595 posts)for perceived self inferiority
Torchlight
(4,548 posts)Regardless, it will be be a tacky thing, as is all he touches and blights.
Prairie Gates
(4,907 posts)It has no bearing on anything and is meant simply to capture attention and conversation.
dweller
(26,437 posts)
damn straight
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Diamond_Dog
(36,655 posts)Ping Tung
(2,158 posts)
DinahMoeHum
(22,864 posts)He also has a thing for 100+-ft waterfalls on golf courses.
Wounded Bear
(61,764 posts)
Retrograde
(11,055 posts)Ive been there and IIRC its rather flat.
DinahMoeHum
(22,864 posts)BTW, which golf course in Florida? Trump has 3 courses there (Doral/Miami, Jupiter, West Palm Beach)
He DOES have a 58-ft waterfall at his West Palm Beach course.
Traildogbob
(10,982 posts)Just skewer him, all his cabinet, and the GQP congress and senators on each of those poles and watch them rot, day to day. Very slowly.
I am nauseously raging and getting worse by the day. I have hated some things in my life, sports opponents, and a cheating girl friend or two, but this hate and rage is something dangerous. Never thought I would love to see a cast of humans slowly rot in public view, with audio of them screaming in pain, and be willing to pay generously for 24/7 coverage until the last piece of of flesh is swallowed by an army of detritus feeders.
FUCK these less than human masses of flesh and bone.
Cheers!!
RockRaven
(17,161 posts)Midnight Writer
(23,734 posts)yellowcanine
(36,450 posts)Needs a row of cyber trucks to complete the look.
LoisB
(10,182 posts)JoseBalow
(7,252 posts)He is so transparently petty
riversedge
(75,144 posts)surfered
(6,300 posts)stillcool
(33,659 posts)I bet he wanted more than 2 and was talked down. I didn't know there was a 'top of the line' flagpole but oddly don't know that I've ever looked at a flagpole, but I guess Donald knows his flagpoles intimately
fargone
(352 posts)underpants
(190,043 posts)MizLibby
(372 posts)He's opening a Camping World!
underpants
(190,043 posts)The common comment Ive seen is that hes making it look like a car dealership .which it actually has served as recently
flvegan
(64,908 posts)Better Call Saul.
milestogo
(20,331 posts)Miami Blue
(270 posts)He has had a fascination with having enormous American flags everywhere he lives even in his
shithole of Mar-a-Lago.
The Felon can't help but hold this sort of fixation this is because of his syphilis in the brain.
Perhaps his neurosyphilis has been worsening lately, so he has fewer neurons left in his tiny
brain. This man is insane, God helps us.
Btw, FelonTraitorTrump why don't you just quit golfing, and your BS and just do your f0kin job
you lazy bone spurs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/20/fact-check-donald-trump-and-mar-lagos-fight-over-flagpole/5921390002/#
Turbineguy
(38,966 posts)woodsprite
(12,398 posts)Probably golden flag poles with 2 huge ass flags made in China like the ones you see flying along I-95 as you head south (forget which state it's in). Hopefully he doesn't add in a confederate or Russian flag.
underpants
(190,043 posts)Big one. Theres another on 64 but you can barely see it over the trees.
greatauntoftriplets
(177,527 posts)Those big flags will make a lot of noise during a strong wind.
Lovie777
(18,066 posts)Johonny
(23,404 posts)How does this save money
struggle4progress
(122,818 posts)
jmowreader
(52,159 posts)Everyone else: "It's on the roof, moron. Have you ever even seen the house you're living in?"
doc03
(37,729 posts)Noodleboy13
(438 posts)Well, I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
Peace,
Noodleboy
Vinca
(51,929 posts)nolabear
(43,666 posts)GOD hes a tacky motherfucker.
Cha
(309,836 posts)money meant for Disasters of those Hit by Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Floods, Earthquakes.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(121,904 posts)republianmushroom
(19,546 posts)Which Mexico didn't pay for.
EarthFirst
(3,625 posts)additionally; someone should tell him that the Accuity Insurance flag is 140 -thatll annoy the shit out of him.
Hekate
(97,318 posts)
if not for the gigantic flagpoles. But according to the King of Tacky Taste, they were needed for 200 years