... as soon as possible.

It's the grass that's being torn up--as the OP says.

Also looks like either they're putting in some heavy duty irrigation, which seems backwards, or a drainage system, which is consistent with the claimed implied goal in the OP.

Now, will the grass be replaced when the modified french drain is done?

Dunno. Might not be a french drain at all--just "stylist" gravel with PVC pipe scattered about on top. That seems unlikely to me, though.

to “American Drain”

he will just have the exterior painted in Gilded Gold, or have it remodeled to look like the Taj Mahal........

... then the Canadians might want to pay a repeat visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The Tina Louise wife comes back from a week-end and her friends visit her.

The friends watch in horror as the beloved tennis court of TL is bulldozed. Her husband is down there, smiling and waving at her. She smiles back, satisfied.

She explains to her friends that she's been soooo selfish with her tennis court when her husband has always wanted a swimming pool. Well, now she only wants to make him happy.

The Stepford Wives was partly filmed in my hometown of Westport, CT which is a NY suburb.

For the tennis court/swimming pool sequence, the producers made a deal with the parents of a classmate of mine. Curiously, they filmed the sequence in reverse: the pool scene was first, then they replaced it with the tennis court. The real pool was broken and needed major repairs and my friend’s parents wanted a tennis court instead. Accordingly, the film producers paid for the change!

He's trying to turn the White House into another Mag-a-loco. When he's gone, there needs to be a lot of preservation protocols put into effect.

First we restore it and then preserve it in a bill which includes National Parks.
Any changes need to be approved by committee.

him wanting a ballroom, etc is because he thinks the White House is going to be his Residence forever.........AND the Mega Donor Oligarchs want to come to the White House, rather than Mar A Gago

Watch what he does and not what he says comes to mind..

I have said He/Republicans WON'T dare do that, or have said He/Republicans CAN'T do that, or it is Illegal, against the law, or un-constitutional........
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fascists work.

Hence why I use the term "regime" in the first place. Administrations are temporary. This is not an "administration" by any comparative historical metric. They are behaving like people who think they have absolute power, and won't be giving it up voluntarily.

Mother Nature is increasingly acting out with Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Volcanoes, Floods, Droughts, etc. She is totally fed up with the way WE are treating HER planet.............When the last humanoid is wiped from the planet, My bet is that the planet will recover (she has all the time in the world)
and in 100k years she will put a new intelligent and caring species on earth and it sure won't be humans.......LOL
Have you noticed that it's mostly the RED states that have been getting hit the hardest by her?????? Especially the South East and Bible Belt...

We've all seen his moves.

...unless you are in a wheelchair. That ain't dancing

behind him were Hand Picked........no "fatties", and only ones showing allegiance to the MAGAot and voting Republican............

When he plays YMCA and dances to it.....he must not understand the significance of that song, and the guys who sang it......LOLOLOLOL

There were not enough people there to make that much noise. He was jerking around to empty bleachers.

He’s an idiot.

1970, President Richard Nixon, inspired by the ceremonial pageantry he’d seen during European state visits, decided to revamp the uniforms of the White House Secret Service Uniformed Division. The result? A $16,000 wardrobe of white double-breasted tunics trimmed with gold braid, black pants with white stripes, and stiff, peaked hats called shakos—topped off with gold ceremonial shoulder cords.

The press and public were not impressed. Critics compared the look to everything from toy soldiers to doormen at a fancy hotel. One official even said the guards were “greeted with gales of laughter” when they first appeared.

The backlash was swift, and Nixon eventually scrapped the uniforms. In a final twist of irony, they were sold to a local high school marching band for $10.

They were hideous.

"just" paving over the grass.
Which I hate. It's supposed to be a green respite!
😬

Eddy was a famous White House rose who was featured in a few Doonesbury strips many years ago.

-- Mal

property. Wish I had the money t file class action suit.

calls people names, racist, homophobic, xenophobic , Islamophobic, Christian Nationalist - simply deplorable and yet almost 80M people like him.

Take a beautiful, historically significant place, destroy it, and replace it with something profoundly vile and ugly.

I've seen whorehouses with more class and taste than trump's gold-plated White House. And it gets worse by the day.

It was bad enough when they messed around with the Rose Garden when they were last there, I remember it was a national story at the time. But now they're thinking of paving it over and building some kind of "ballroom?" Aren't there plenty of rooms for entertaining international visitors already in the White House?? That Rose Garden is historic and means a lot to people. And how much is this new addition going to cost the American people??

So maybe don't wear stilettos when you know you are going to the Rose Garden?

8" stilettos. Almost 60 years, after Jackie's redesign, without a problem. I used to wear 4" heels, but never if I was going to be on grass.

Kind of a no brainer, eh?

because this is probably the place he gets these ideas to just spend taxpayer money while at the same time trying to kick 13.5 million people off healthcare.........and thinking about all those woman in heels sinking in grass..........he really is a psychopath.........

And put in cheap Iceburg white roses it wasn't much of a rose garden anyway.

What she tore up were many roses sent here during WWII to protect the species in including the Peace Rose. I sure hope the landscapers she hired to redo the garden knew what they were tearing out and took them for themselves.

and all the other foundational elements of this country.

Yeh! - what's it going to be called now? Is he going to pave it over in gold and call it the gold garden.

Money and power...and no taste. (Just like the make over to the oval.)

I'm pretty sure this is what's going to happen. Members (all billionaires and foreigners of course) will be required to buy $100 million of his memecoin instead of paying dues, so he can claim they're not paying bribes when of course they are.

And how much is this going to cost the American people?!

Maybe he's going to put up a Tomb of the Unknown Trophy Wife.

My attachment to symbols of American idealism and power went up in smoke in November.
Too many in the US make a mockery of it, both the technocrats/oligarchs and the racist regressive base.

* reconstituted, renovated, reclaimed...

It's really quite obvious that he only cares about SHITTING on everything that's beautiful, traditional, historic, sacred. We'll have a LOT to clean up.

Anybody remember "Big Yellow Taxi"?

And he is bat shit crazy too.



This didn’t need his help.

Is there even enough clearance to land a chopper safely?

Why the f*ck does he need two giant poles where none are required?

He's not going to get his deposit back when he's evicted.

Got to watch the slip & falls.