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underpants

(190,043 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:14 PM 15 hrs ago

Trump to put flagpoles & 100 foot flags on either side of the White House

Trump’s making a big change to the White House grounds — and says he’ll 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.

“We’re 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 I’ve often said, you know, they don’t have a flagpole per se. So we’re putting one right where you saw us, and we’re putting another one on the other side, on top of the mounds. It’s going to be two beautiful poles.”

https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/us-news/trump-announces-self-funded-change-to-white-house/

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Trump to put flagpoles & 100 foot flags on either side of the White House (Original Post) underpants 15 hrs ago OP
LOL at "He will pay for them"! Bettie 15 hrs ago #1
Yep! trump is the king of spending OPM... Wounded Bear 13 hrs ago #49
He just brought in $270 million from corporations buying access by contributing to the Easter Egg Roll Botany 13 hrs ago #52
That room makes Versailles look shabby. greatauntoftriplets 13 hrs ago #53
Trump didn't like the exquisite Camp David Botany 13 hrs ago #55
The setting is gorgeous, but I doubt that he cares about scenery. greatauntoftriplets 13 hrs ago #58
Real class and good design is always understated. Botany 13 hrs ago #59
True. greatauntoftriplets 12 hrs ago #63
Good design always complements what is there naturally so it fits into the native environment Botany 12 hrs ago #69
Damn you know your stuff. underpants 10 hrs ago #73
Yup I know a little about a few things Botany 10 hrs ago #80
Sorry that happened to you. greatauntoftriplets 10 hrs ago #77
Oh well Botany 9 hrs ago #81
She sounds like a real winner. greatauntoftriplets 8 hrs ago #88
Frank Lloyd Wright,.......nuff said about building in an environment. a kennedy 10 hrs ago #79
Frank Lloyd learned about that stuff from Jen Jensen who was a pioneer in that field Botany 9 hrs ago #82
Both then are gawd in the field of architecture eh?? a kennedy 9 hrs ago #83
THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE........the POTUS should not be living like a gawd damn king!!!!! a kennedy 10 hrs ago #78
Remember people trump the turd never pays his bills. rich7862 15 hrs ago #2
Bet the security people don't like that idea. FSogol 15 hrs ago #3
Thought the same. underpants 15 hrs ago #18
Gold paint is just so cheap, he will use 22K gold, and we will pay for it. rich7862 14 hrs ago #41
Wow! Just like the Perkins restaurant flag. MineralMan 15 hrs ago #4
Look up, dumbass! There's a flag pole on the roof! rsdsharp 15 hrs ago #5
Yes I had the same thought. underpants 15 hrs ago #17
I thought of that. mercuryblues 14 hrs ago #43
When I retired from the Navy Bush II was in Office tinymontgomery 13 hrs ago #60
From CHYN-nah! Kid Berwyn 15 hrs ago #6
He hasn't yet I don't think. underpants 15 hrs ago #19
He's doing it for love. Kid Berwyn 15 hrs ago #26
Gotta get those Trump Traildogbob 15 hrs ago #7
'Kinda like this Ars Longa 12 hrs ago #65
Exactly Traildogbob 12 hrs ago #67
Gross. yardwork 15 hrs ago #8
Reads like bad satire dweller 15 hrs ago #9
Just so he can fly a ginormous Trump flag in the center. C_U_L8R 15 hrs ago #10
+1. There will be a Trump flag dalton99a 15 hrs ago #24
Yep! EndlessWire 11 hrs ago #72
Trump flags? dem4decades 15 hrs ago #11
"We're putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side and another one on the other side..." LudwigPastorius 15 hrs ago #12
Tesla dealership? lmao. All hail the stoopid n/t Cheezoholic 15 hrs ago #13
White House for dweller 15 hrs ago #23
Rights and people being disappeared, economy in shambles, world trust dissolved, but hey. Priorities. unblock 15 hrs ago #14
Governance on a whim underpants 15 hrs ago #22
Scattershooting While Wondering What Flags Will Fly on the Flagpoles Stallion 15 hrs ago #15
Overcompensation HAB911 15 hrs ago #16
His interest in placing two big, beautiful poles near him is unsurprising. Torchlight 15 hrs ago #20
This is just Trump trolling - ignore it Prairie Gates 15 hrs ago #21
He would do that !?! dweller 15 hrs ago #25
The right wing sure is obsessed with the flag. Diamond_Dog 15 hrs ago #27
Why so few? Ping Tung 15 hrs ago #28
He's done this same shit re his golf courses. DinahMoeHum 15 hrs ago #29
...in drought ridden areas... Wounded Bear 13 hrs ago #50
In Florida? Retrograde 10 hrs ago #74
They're NOT on EVERY golf course DinahMoeHum 9 hrs ago #86
Can we Traildogbob 15 hrs ago #30
More tacky undignified shit. Another day ending in -y for TCF. RockRaven 15 hrs ago #31
I hope he can afford the tariff on those big, beautiful American flags imported from China. Midnight Writer 15 hrs ago #32
Wants to make it look like a car dealership. yellowcanine 15 hrs ago #33
Will they be gold-plated? Will the "trump" flag be above or below the American flag? LoisB 15 hrs ago #34
To explicitly NOT fly flags at half-staff when he disagrees JoseBalow 15 hrs ago #35
Will the flags and poles say: Made in the USA???? riversedge 15 hrs ago #36
Just like before the fall of Rome, it's bread and circus, but without the bread and with more circus. surfered 15 hrs ago #37
painted gold? stillcool 14 hrs ago #38
For context, the White House is 70 feet tall fargone 14 hrs ago #39
Thanks. As much as I love the flag, this looks it could be a hot mess. underpants 14 hrs ago #40
Always looking for a way to raise $$$ for the country... MizLibby 14 hrs ago #42
Yes. underpants 14 hrs ago #45
Now it needs a giant inflatable Statue of Liberty on the roof a la flvegan 14 hrs ago #44
Will they be made of gold? milestogo 14 hrs ago #46
FelonTraitorTrump aka El Presidente Loco y Criminal Miami Blue 14 hrs ago #47
saying; "I am not a Russian Agent!" Turbineguy 13 hrs ago #48
He's waiting for Putin to pay for the golden spires to be added to the building. That'll raise the height. woodsprite 13 hrs ago #51
Virginia Stafford county and one south of Richmond on 95 underpants 13 hrs ago #56
Tacky overkill. greatauntoftriplets 13 hrs ago #54
Very visible to the outside countries............... Lovie777 13 hrs ago #57
Because Doge? Johonny 12 hrs ago #61
Maybe the White House needs an Esso station? struggle4progress 12 hrs ago #62
Trump: "The White House doesn't have a flagpole" jmowreader 12 hrs ago #64
Next it will be a Trump flag. nt doc03 12 hrs ago #66
Trump can take one of those big beautiful poles.... Noodleboy13 12 hrs ago #68
OMG - he'll make the place look like a tacky car dealership. Vinca 12 hrs ago #70
Great. Like a gas station on the highway. nolabear 11 hrs ago #71
Fuck him he's a Russian Agent.. he'll "pay for it" with FEMA Cha 10 hrs ago #75
Inadequacy issues Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 10 hrs ago #76
Hope the stay up and are better designed than his wall. republianmushroom 9 hrs ago #84
I'm sure the Secret Service will love the two giant variable direction line of sight obstructions flanking the WH EarthFirst 9 hrs ago #85
I suppose nobody including Americans would have any idea what building they were looking at... Hekate 9 hrs ago #87

Botany

(73,901 posts)
52. He just brought in $270 million from corporations buying access by contributing to the Easter Egg Roll
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:41 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
58. The setting is gorgeous, but I doubt that he cares about scenery.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:03 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
59. Real class and good design is always understated.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:10 PM
13 hrs ago


If you can’t be happy here the problem is with you. Btw I do landscape design and work.

greatauntoftriplets

(177,527 posts)
63. True.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:25 PM
12 hrs ago

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)
69. Good design always complements what is there naturally so it fits into the native environment
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:58 PM
12 hrs ago

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 didn’t match the surroundings @
all and looks like tacky crap. She also let all these wonderful native plants die because she didn’t
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.

greatauntoftriplets

(177,527 posts)
77. Sorry that happened to you.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:49 PM
10 hrs ago

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)
81. Oh well
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:11 PM
9 hrs ago

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)
88. She sounds like a real winner.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:21 PM
8 hrs ago

I'm sorry that she took it out on other people like your mother and son.

a kennedy

(33,312 posts)
79. Frank Lloyd Wright,.......nuff said about building in an environment.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:57 PM
10 hrs ago

He was the King of design.

Botany

(73,901 posts)
82. Frank Lloyd learned about that stuff from Jen Jensen who was a pioneer in that field
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:15 PM
9 hrs ago

You can still see Jensen’s work in and around Chicago.

a kennedy

(33,312 posts)
78. THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE........the POTUS should not be living like a gawd damn king!!!!!
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:55 PM
10 hrs ago

FSogol

(47,297 posts)
3. Bet the security people don't like that idea.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:17 PM
15 hrs ago

Is he going to paint it gold next? What a tacky person.

underpants

(190,043 posts)
18. Thought the same.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:35 PM
15 hrs ago

I’m sure they have high tech surveillance but it could obscure their out look.

underpants

(190,043 posts)
17. Yes I had the same thought.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:33 PM
15 hrs ago

The pic at the link (NY Post) looks like the head groundskeeper is pointing at it saying, there’s one there already.

mercuryblues

(15,563 posts)
43. I thought of that.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:37 PM
14 hrs ago

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)
60. When I retired from the Navy Bush II was in Office
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:10 PM
13 hrs ago

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.

Traildogbob

(10,982 posts)
7. Gotta get those Trump
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:18 PM
15 hrs ago

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.

dweller

(26,437 posts)
9. Reads like bad satire
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:20 PM
15 hrs ago

“ 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





✌🏻

C_U_L8R

(47,143 posts)
10. Just so he can fly a ginormous Trump flag in the center.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:23 PM
15 hrs ago

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.

EndlessWire

(7,732 posts)
72. Yep!
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:19 PM
11 hrs ago

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.

LudwigPastorius

(12,252 posts)
12. "We're putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side and another one on the other side..."
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:27 PM
15 hrs ago

The "another one" flag:

unblock

(55,017 posts)
14. Rights and people being disappeared, economy in shambles, world trust dissolved, but hey. Priorities.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:28 PM
15 hrs ago

underpants

(190,043 posts)
22. Governance on a whim
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:37 PM
15 hrs ago

He was probably flying in on Marine One and it popped into his head

Stallion

(6,634 posts)
15. Scattershooting While Wondering What Flags Will Fly on the Flagpoles
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:32 PM
15 hrs ago

Come and Take It?
Russian Flag?

Torchlight

(4,548 posts)
20. His interest in placing two big, beautiful poles near him is unsurprising.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:36 PM
15 hrs ago

Regardless, it will be be a tacky thing, as is all he touches and blights.

Prairie Gates

(4,907 posts)
21. This is just Trump trolling - ignore it
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:37 PM
15 hrs ago

It has no bearing on anything and is meant simply to capture attention and conversation.

DinahMoeHum

(22,864 posts)
29. He's done this same shit re his golf courses.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:55 PM
15 hrs ago

He also has a thing for 100+-ft waterfalls on golf courses.

DinahMoeHum

(22,864 posts)
86. They're NOT on EVERY golf course
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:02 PM
9 hrs ago

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)
30. Can we
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:58 PM
15 hrs ago

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!!

yellowcanine

(36,450 posts)
33. Wants to make it look like a car dealership.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:01 PM
15 hrs ago

Needs a row of cyber trucks to complete the look.

surfered

(6,300 posts)
37. Just like before the fall of Rome, it's bread and circus, but without the bread and with more circus.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:10 PM
15 hrs ago

stillcool

(33,659 posts)
38. painted gold?
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:17 PM
14 hrs ago

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

MizLibby

(372 posts)
42. Always looking for a way to raise $$$ for the country...
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:33 PM
14 hrs ago

He's opening a Camping World!

The national RV dealer with over 200 locations is being faced with multiple lawsuits from municipalities across the country over the size of the American flags it flies at the stores.

underpants

(190,043 posts)
45. Yes.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:41 PM
14 hrs ago

The common comment I’ve seen is that he’s making it look like a car dealership….which it actually has served as recently

Miami Blue

(270 posts)
47. FelonTraitorTrump aka El Presidente Loco y Criminal
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:07 PM
14 hrs ago

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/#

woodsprite

(12,398 posts)
51. He's waiting for Putin to pay for the golden spires to be added to the building. That'll raise the height.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:33 PM
13 hrs ago

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)
56. Virginia Stafford county and one south of Richmond on 95
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 03:57 PM
13 hrs ago

Big one. There’s another on 64 but you can barely see it over the trees.

jmowreader

(52,159 posts)
64. Trump: "The White House doesn't have a flagpole"
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:36 PM
12 hrs ago

Everyone else: "It's on the roof, moron. Have you ever even seen the house you're living in?"

Noodleboy13

(438 posts)
68. Trump can take one of those big beautiful poles....
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 04:55 PM
12 hrs ago

Well, I'm sure you can figure out the rest.

Peace,
Noodleboy

Cha

(309,836 posts)
75. Fuck him he's a Russian Agent.. he'll "pay for it" with FEMA
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:39 PM
10 hrs ago

money meant for Disasters of those Hit by Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Floods, Earthquakes.

EarthFirst

(3,625 posts)
85. I'm sure the Secret Service will love the two giant variable direction line of sight obstructions flanking the WH
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:34 PM
9 hrs ago

…additionally; someone should tell him that the Accuity Insurance flag is 140’ -that’ll annoy the shit out of him.

Hekate

(97,318 posts)
87. I suppose nobody including Americans would have any idea what building they were looking at...
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:09 PM
9 hrs ago

…if not for the gigantic flagpoles. But according to the King of Tacky Taste, “they were needed for 200 years”

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