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DesertRat

(27,995 posts) Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:37 PM Mar 2020

Meanwhile... FLOTUS is focused on a "tennis pavillion"

Most tone deaf administration ever.

Melania Trump
@FLOTUS
I am excited to share the progress of the Tennis Pavillion at
@WhiteHouse
. Thank you to the talented team for their hard work and dedication.

@MiaFarrow
29 people were killed by a tornado in Tennessee, the world is shuddering as a pandemic expands and what is a tennis pavilion?

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Meanwhile... FLOTUS is focused on a "tennis pavillion" (Original Post) DesertRat Mar 2020 OP

So we'll get to see more of this? The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1

I doubt he's up to that much exercise these days DesertRat Mar 2020 #2

This is merely to erase traces of a former resident jberryhill Mar 2020 #3

You're right. I didn't notice it was going in over the basketball court DesertRat Mar 2020 #7

Ah, ah, ah, we must try to "be best". oasis Mar 2020 #8

Barron lives with his mother and grandparents in Maryland jberryhill Mar 2020 #11

Really? DesertRat Mar 2020 #12

I dunno. That's what a lot of people are saying. jberryhill Mar 2020 #13

Will they serve cake? Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #4

But who plays tennis in that family? Ohiogal Mar 2020 #5

I think jberryhill nailed it in the reply upthread DesertRat Mar 2020 #6

Idgaf n/t onecaliberal Mar 2020 #9

Better hurry up she will be gone soon. pwb Mar 2020 #10

"They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, struggle4progress Mar 2020 #14

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,686 posts)

1. So we'll get to see more of this?

Reply to DesertRat (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:39 PM

Mar 2020

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)

2. I doubt he's up to that much exercise these days

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:41 PM

Mar 2020

Also

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

3. This is merely to erase traces of a former resident

Reply to DesertRat (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 02:17 PM

Mar 2020

The WH recreational facilities are regularly altered to suit the occupant. The indoor swimming pool has come and gone along with the bowling alley....

The last change to the tennis area is visible beneath the table:

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)

7. You're right. I didn't notice it was going in over the basketball court

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 03:24 PM

Mar 2020

Doesn't their tall young son like to shoot hoops?

oasis

(49,383 posts)

8. Ah, ah, ah, we must try to "be best".

Reply to DesertRat (Reply #7)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 03:27 PM

Mar 2020

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

11. Barron lives with his mother and grandparents in Maryland

Reply to DesertRat (Reply #7)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 06:11 PM

Mar 2020

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)

12. Really?

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 07:09 PM

Mar 2020

Aren't they still pretending to live in the WH?

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

13. I dunno. That's what a lot of people are saying.

Reply to DesertRat (Reply #12)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 08:32 PM

Mar 2020

Baitball Blogger

(46,705 posts)

4. Will they serve cake?

Reply to DesertRat (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 02:19 PM

Mar 2020

Ohiogal

(31,996 posts)

5. But who plays tennis in that family?

Reply to DesertRat (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 02:37 PM

Mar 2020

Surely not Lard Ass. Mel and her son don’t spend any more time there than they have to.

So what’s the purpose of it?

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)

6. I think jberryhill nailed it in the reply upthread

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 03:21 PM

Mar 2020

This is merely to erase traces of a former resident

onecaliberal

(32,854 posts)

9. Idgaf n/t

Reply to DesertRat (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 04:45 PM

Mar 2020

pwb

(11,263 posts)

10. Better hurry up she will be gone soon.

Reply to DesertRat (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 04:58 PM

Mar 2020

Trumps do things just because they can.

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)

14. "They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them,

Reply to DesertRat (Original post)

Fri Mar 6, 2020, 08:37 PM

Mar 2020

makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1926

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