Melania Trump mocked for whining about criticism of her 'damage' to the White House Rose Garden

[Initech]

After more than a year, former First Lady Melania Trump has become aware of the criticism surrounding her changes to Jackie Kennedy's famous design of the White House Rose Garden.

Because the Trumps wanted to use the White House for the Republican National Convention in 2020, they made significant changes to the legendary Rose Garden.

At the time of the change, presidential historian Michael Bechloss insulted Melania Trump's work by posting some of the photos of the garden throughout the years. Upon the anniversary of the project, Bechloss posted another photo showing the rows of simplistic box hedges and low-profile shrubbery.

"[Beschloss] has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy," the Twitter account linked to the "Office of Melania Trump" said on Sunday. The account shared a photo that some said was taken from a vantage point that neglected to show how the cherry blossom and crab apple trees were removed.
https://www.rawstory.com/melania-trump-rose-garden-redo/

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That sounds suspiciously like something Donny would say. Isn't this circumventing a ban?

[NameAlreadyTaken]

1. Wow, someone is still bitter!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. The Sex Worker is upset

Boo Hoo

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[Initech]

3. That is accurate!

[Mike Nelson]

4. Again, she proves herself...

... class is quiet.

[Initech]

6. I don't think that's her writing those.

I seriously think it's Trump, though someone else might be writing them for him, which might explain why there's few typos or grammatical errors. I notice that the account joined after Trump got banned from Twitter.

After browsing, it pretty much posts their crap and retweets stuff from pro-Trump accounts like America First Policy Institute.

I flagged @Twittersupport, I wonder if they will respond.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Bet the ranch Trump wrote that.

[JHB]

21. You'd lose the ranch. But if you bet a Trump flunky wrote it, you might

There's no part of that wording that says "Donald", though the thin-skinned condescension might indicate he gave directions.

More likely Melania directed a flunky to write it. She's as thin-skinned as her husband.

[CottonBear]

5. IMHO as design professional, the destruction of the Rose Garden Park was a tragedy.

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It really hit me hard. The daily onslaught of evil during the former map administration was numbing and horrifying, but the total destruction of a classic and historic American Garden was just incredibly sad for me.

The landscape architects and civil engineers who worked on the plans for the deconstruction and destruction of the Rose Garden should be ashamed of their role.

[yardwork]

7. Somebody posted a photo of Gorky Park, looking remarkably similar.

I wouldn't be surprised if the plan was handed to the WH landscape architects fully specced. I doubt Melania was even involved beyond being a figurehead.

The plan is sterile and ugly but it's more than that. It looks like authoritarian architecture. It's meant to dehumanize.

[mopinko]

16. same here.

i already knew her 'design degree' was phony.
but both as a designer and a lifelong gardener, i saw red for days.

[yardwork]

8. The supposedly beautiful photo is dominated by a concrete sidewalk.

It's a photo of a sidewalk with some scraggly knockout roses along one side and an outmoded "lawn" on the other side. The sidewalk dominates the photo.

[Initech]

15. Yeah where are the roses?

[haele]

18. Home Depot/Anderson Gardens roses

I guess she can claim these are "People's Roses" that anyone can get and make a copy of the WH Rose Garden themselves with.

I'd have liked to see it updated with more Heritage types of Roses - Tuscany, Centrafloras, tiny Cecil Brunners with their terrific citrus rose scent that make wonderful buttoneers...maybe a couple Cherokee roses tossed in? Maybe with some more native flowers and herb for butterflies, bees, and other pollinators in the layout? And lots of colorful bulbs and perennials - pinks, marigolds (pest control), and carnations, then maybe some mums for fall?

Of course, a heritage Rose garden like that takes years to establish.

Not like just using pink and white landscaping roses with some stocks thrown in for a bit of color between the boxwood.

Haele

[yardwork]

20. Exactly! So much opportunity lost.

[SergeStorms]

9. She's very thin skinned you know.

After so many facelifts it's stretched thin, like rice paper, over her Slovenian skull.

[underpants]

11. I'm glad this states that this was done simply to be used as a prop

Melanie, look you hated living there (little that you did) and you are now back to being a show piece. Drop it. Speaking up does you no good. No one likes you and even fewer respect you.

[underpants]

12. Damn. Even Grovelbot be like, shut up.....

You miserable whore.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215715565

[Nexus2]

13. The WH should send her a consolation prize: a brand new gold plated commode, definitely unsullied

by Black buttocks.

[pidge]

14. It's a garden.....they change....no big deal.

[Tommymac]

19. It's The People's Garden and it is a HUGE Deal.

[pidge]

24. And some people like roses

and some don’t……..hardly worth a discussion in these trying times.

[yardwork]

22. Trump used the White House grounds for re-election campaign activities.

That's a violation of federal law. The design of the garden is a matter of opinion, but violation of federal laws is a big deal.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Were the Hatch Act ramifications on this ever ruled on?

"...the Trumps wanted to use the White House for the Republican National Convention in 2020, they made significant changes to the legendary Rose Garden."

[Brother Mythos]

23. Aw, the former First Escort is having a sad.

[LiberalFighter]

25. In the first photo, the shrubs appear to be too close to each other and too many.