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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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No but they are buried underneath.
They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
lol the insignia in the corner, very American
It's a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.
A manicured grass lawn is not nature
It's more nature than what's there now
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'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.
A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural
I don't suppose the organic garden is still around along with the whitehouse mead made from honey of beehives on the grounds.
But when?
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.
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.
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.
Dudeβs heels were probably sinking into the dirt during press conferences.
I wonder what kind of entry fee heβs going to concoct now that it had been new and ~~ruined~~ improved.
That looks like a little mini Tiananmen Square. Dictators love a big slab of concrete.
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.
More space for a Tesler showroom.
I don't see why pavement is worse than manicured grass
It's ugly and trashy
Because ants can live on grass but not pavement? Lawn is bad for biodiversity but concrete is much worse.
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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.
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.
Surely solid pavement is still a downgrade from lawn grass, no?
At least it gives him a hard surface to break some brittle old bones on if he falls over.
A girl can dream