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

[WhiteTara]

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

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.

Melania Trump held her Republican National Convention speech from the Rose Garden in front of approximately 75 seated guests on August 25. For that event, the grass of the Rose Garden was too muddy to host an audience due to lack of drainage from heavy rain storms, thus a "turf" lawn was put down over the grass instead, a source with knowledge told CNN at the time.

[cyndensco]

1. Damn! They really do break EVERYTHING.

[C_U_L8R]

2. A shoddy job - just like everything Trump.

How much did they skim off of this one?

[underpants]

3. Sounds like Melania's tunneling is either going well or was discovered

So there was AstroTurf over the grass for Melania’s speech. How perfectly appropriate for them.

[CaptYossarian]

8. There has never been a successful escape from Stalag 45!

[underpants]

14. Haven't heard much about the tennis pavilion recently have we?

It was a helluva an effort though.

[CaptYossarian]

17. The materials went south (Mar-A-Lago) the same time the polls did.

Yet we're still paying for it.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. Ahhh...so a "cover-up"?

This is why one shouldn't run out for a hastily-produced Chump vaccine. Who knows what will happen three weeks after taking it?

[underpants]

15. Uncle Vlad's Magic Wizard Oil

Let’s see Trump and the staff take whatever we go with first.

[avebury]

4. Well that is a shock ---

Not!

Typical Trump construction project.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Everything Trump touches dies.

That goes for Melania as well as Donald.

[gratuitous]

6. As sturdy as Burnham Wood

It was a set, thrown together for a vanity op during the convention. It has already served its purpose, and Trump won't be spending any money to fix or restore the Rose Garden. Not his concern as he makes plans for his getaway.

[Blue Owl]

7. She forgot to Putin a drainage system

n/t

[ismnotwasm]

10. That sod looked like shit in the pictures

Probably a rushed job for use. But ugly.

[displacedtexan]

11. Guess what happens when you dig up decades of root structures, Melania.

Yep, drainage problems. Unless you hire Experienced, competent landscapers.

[Hekate]

12. They took something both beautiful and functional and ruined it.

What a shock.

[JHB]

13. Well, the whole thing will need to be torn up again anyway.

Firstly to sweep for spying devices, and secondly to get rid of that generic office-park landscaping and restore it to what it was.

[lpbk2713]

16. Trump had the work done by the lowest bidder.

He got what he paid for.