Newly renovated Rose Garden under repair less than 3 weeks after unveiling

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/rose-garden-repair-melania-trump/index.html

(CNN)The newly renovated White House Rose Garden is under repair less than three weeks after it's official unveiling. The garden is experiencing "issues with water drainage" and "some minor complications with updated construction," a source with knowledge of the garden troubles told CNN. New sod is also being laid down.

First lady Melania Trump on August 22 hosted a private party to celebrate the redone Rose Garden, which the public was told had been completed after approximately three weeks of renovation.

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment on when the Rose Garden will be able to properly function.

President Donald Trump on Monday held a news conference on the North Portico, an unusual outdoor location, but the source notes hosting press in seats at the Rose Garden "would not be doable" in the iconic garden's current status. Trump has also had to motorcade to Andrews Air Force Base of late, again preventing media from seeing the construction in the Rose Garden in recent days.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Can't those idiots do *anything* right?

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. That's a rhetorical question, isn't it?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Of course.

These are people who'd fuck up a wet dream. Couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel. Couldn't piss a hole straight in the snow. Other metaphors are welcome.

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. Couldn't lead a kitten out of a paper bag with a can of tuna fish?

[Botany]

2. 100% gas lighting

Trying to change the subject. Just leave it blank and let Biden/Harris fix it.

[dweller]

3. everything

they touch, dies

✌🏼

[Rhiannon12866]

24. My exact thought, too...

[mr_lebowski]

4. No doubt the work was another overpriced job that was under-delivered by grifting Trump/GOP cronies

Probably a no-bid contract.

I also doubt they're repairing how shitty it looks.

[COLGATE4]

6. He can even fuck up a Rose Garden! nt

[Wellstone ruled]

7. All those trasplanted White in Bloom Roses

died. Millions pissed away once again. But,Grifter's need to Grift.

[hedda_foil]

8. They dug up a lot of trees that drained the whole area.

[panader0]

9. As a lifelong construction worker I have poured hundreds and hundreds of yards of concrete.

If my work went bad in three weeks I wouldn't have been able to work in this town again.
Drainage? Water flows downhill. It's not a hard concept.

[Baked Potato]

10. "Try Something New", like new drainage.

[lagomorph777]

11. Leaks in the ceiling of Der Fuehrerbunker?

I think the "Rose Garden upgrade" was cover for something much more serious.

[stillcool]

12. did they bury something

and now they're digging it up? Pre-convention, Post-convention. Too may spy-thrillers for me.

[malaise]

13. Draining the Con's swamp

Ah well!

[obamanut2012]

14. hahaha

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Another "Rush Job" in the tRump White House.

THIS, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why I won't be first in line for a Chump-administration vaccine. Who knows what will happen three weeks later...

[hunter]

16. What will happen? Drainage issues of the most unpleasant sort...

[Totally Tunsie]

17. LOL - If not worse!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. I think the Rose Garden will be restored next spring.

Until then, Melania can fling bling at it.

[WyattKansas]

21. so Donald Tramp even had his hooker wife place his shit stain on another tradition...

What is new?

Are there now disco lights, tiki torches, stripper poles, black lights, and tacky ornaments there now?

[betsuni]

22. If the Biden administration spends any money on gardens, Republicans will scream

about wasting tax payers money and the press will duly report it. We'll have to hear screaming about the deficit every day too of course.

[mercuryblues]

23. I thought they said the garden re-do

was to upgrade the drainage system. Instead they made it worse.

His merde's touch strikes again