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  • the_tab_key@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    7 days ago

    Of all the things he’s changed about the country, I bet something like this is what he cares about the most. I can just imagine the tantrum trump will throw when the next president* digs this up and returns it to grass, or better yet, an actual garden.

    * if we get another president.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      6 days ago

      Oh they are all petty twits.

      Regan pitched a fit and removed the solar panels Carter left on the roof when he left office. This is just more proof the regressive party has no taste.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      6 days ago

      If there ever will be a next US president I expect him to first tear down that new gold wing, then to dig up this shit.

      Anything else can wait

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    7 days ago

    Honestly, I’m amazed he managed to restrain himself from making it mostly gold. Can’t imagine that this ballroom will have such restraint.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

    Hows drainage?

    Also they kept the much cheaper pavers around it, which looks stupid as hell.

  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    518·
    7 days ago

    Am I missing something here? It looks like the roses are still there and he just paved over the big useless lawn.

    Anyone else see this? Those rose bushes are still clearly there on the right side of the image. Ifball were talking about is the replacement of some shit grass anyways, who gives a fuck?

      • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        619·
        7 days ago

        So does a fucking lawn. Actually, imo, lawns are worse. It’s a perfect representation of the toxicity of the “American dream”. It’s an unnatural landscape that’s inhospitable to life, sort of like the concrete, costs resources to maintain, unlike the concrete, but it gets some weird psychological pass because it’s green. It’s shit either way.

        Talking about “he ripped out the rose garden” is just more sensationalism horseshit when the roses are right there, just fuckin dandy. He tore out a lawn that was equally as shit.

        • barnaclebutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Ow wee… Your opinion isn’t going to be well received. He’s clearly making the white house tacky and gross like he’s tacky and gross. It’s going to take so long to get his skid marks and farts out of the white house. So much industrial cleaner. Just like the US is going to need some industrial cleaner to get rid of the fascists.

        • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          If we’re talking ChemLawn, I’ll agree with you. But mulch mowing the yard is IMO categorically better than paving (or ChemLawning)

    • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Lawns are bad, yes, replacing lawn with hard impermeable surface, worse.

      It’s as if someone turned their whole front yard in to a parking lot.

    • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      7 days ago

      Grass looked greener than a par 4, and many people give a fuck. Did you want one?

      • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        45·
        7 days ago

        A lawn? Absolutely not. It’s a resource sink for no other reason that vanity. If they weren’t going to put in something useful, like clover or any actual productive plant life, then I’d rather see it capped off and no longer watered. Golf courses too for that matter. Pave them over entirely and build dense urban housing instead on a national scale.

        • betanumerus@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          There are many reasons for a lawn and cement or tiles is much more pompous, but you sound like you just want attention.

    • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pubEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Yeah that grass square always seemed strange to me even as a kid, since they hosted outdoor parties for visiting foreign dignitaries and grass isn’t the best surface for fancy shoes, especially women’s heels. My brothers and I would sometimes wonder if it opened up to reveal a secret missile base or Aurora landing pad.

    • Elaine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      7 days ago

      Agreed, the whole clutching of pearls over the rose garden is ridiculous. It’s widely accepted that lawns are an unnecessary flex. This area is used for seating so nothing but some grass that was probably in need of constant repair because of all the traffic. This is a big nothing sandwich.

  • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3743·
    8 days ago

    It’s a good representation of this new regime. Tear down nature and replace it with a parking lot.

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      83·
      8 days ago

      It also looks like something you’d find at a cheap, trashy resort where children poop in the pool.

        • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19111·
          8 days ago

          Stone isn’t nature? Looks like natural stone to me. It’s ugly AF but both are artifical and have little to do with nature.

          Edit: it’s just a joke guys, don’t take it too seriously lol

        • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2029·
          8 days ago

          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”.

          • turtlesareneat@discuss.onlineEnglish
            611·
            8 days ago

            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.

          • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
            111·
            8 days ago

            If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).

        • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1029·
          8 days ago

          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.

          • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.caEnglish
            12·
            7 days ago

            The problem is, have you ever noticed how much hotter you are in a parking lot on a warm day than when you are in a park? Well, now those events are happening on a parking lot and not a park. Furniture can be designed to work on turf, or temporary fixtures could be put in place to mitigate the drawbacks of furniture on lawns, but the absorbed and reflected heat will be hard to get rid of. Hopefully this area is small enough to not have a big impact on the temperature there.

            I honestly don’t think it looks bad, but I suspect it’s more for Trump to put his stamp on it than anything else, and to erase the efforts of others before him. And I suspect it will be more uncomfortable than it was before.

          • sthetic@lemmy.caEnglish
            517·
            8 days ago

            I agree. I hate Trump as much as anyone else, but if a President I liked did this, it wouldn’t be the end of the world.

            In principle, I don’t mind if a space mainly used for events, with chairs placed there often, should be hardscape. It’s not as if lawn can’t be put back there in the future. Lawn isn’t a heritage tree or rose shrub.

            To be fair though, the photo makes it look pretty huge as an expanse of paved area.

            • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
              14·
              8 days ago

              Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.

              Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.

      • Jack@slrpnk.netEnglish
        135·
        8 days ago

        A good representation of the old regimen, as unnatural as concrete, but at least trying to appear natural