This is exactly what Trump plans to do to our national parks, forests, wilderness area.

Trump bulldozes the White House Rose Garden.

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2025/06/20/white-house-rose-garden-renovation-photos/84292209007/

White House bulldozes Rose Garden to start Trump's plans to pave over it

The White House has bulldozed the Rose Garden to make way for President Trump's plans to pave over it. See photos of the historic landmark through the years.

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@petergleick Trump is a Vogon painted orange.
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Only that their poetry is better.
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@petergleick @briankrebs They gonna park a Big Yellow Taxi there.

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He's such a tasteless, petty little bitch.

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Maybe it is me but I remember outrage over a tan suit.

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It's really honestly such a shame, the rose garden was pretty.

Like, yes, he's petty, evil, and -phenominally- stupid, but really just destroying something pretty is...sad.

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He's preparing the lot for a 20 foot tall golden statue of himself.

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Well if he is taking bread from American workers then it's fitting the White House not have roses, in an ironic sort of way.

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Based on the provided photos, the cement will be laid over turf, and the roses and the like ducked a bullet?

@petergleick Anything for the headlines. Anything for a distraction. Yes he’s a petty man. But you all knew it allready.
@petergleick next thing : The oval office will be made square ...

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He has rocks for brains. He won't be happy until he has destroyed your whole country & pillaged it dry! He is brain-dead!

@petergleick I had to check that this wasn’t The Onion.

What’s he going to put there, a mini golf course?

Or maybe the red trees?

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"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" (Joni Mitchell)
@petergleick It always feels like we're on the alternate timeline...
@petergleick I don’t suppose he is going to use porous paving!!!
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History needing to be preserved: naming military bases after traitors
History not worth preserving: the historic Whitehouse rose garden, national parks, etc.
@petergleick I looked around; the roses remain, the paths are being switched from grass to pavement. The reason is that formal events are held there, and the grass gets muddy.

I live in one of the most liberal places on earth, and our _farmer's market_ just did the same thing to a bunch of grass for the same reason.

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A different kind of violence is still violence.

pave paradise and put in a parking lot