Neighbors Say There's No 10-Foot Wall Outside Obama's House
Last edited Mon Dec 31, 2018, 05:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: The Hill
30 mins. ago. Neighbors of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have disputed President Trump's recent claim that a 10-foot wall stands around the Obama home in Washington, D.C.
Two neighbors in remarks to The Washington Post disputed Trump's characterization. "There's a fence that goes along the front of the house, but it's the same as the other neighbors have. It's tastefully done," one neighbor, who was kept anonymous, told the newspaper.
Another neighbor also told the Post that the home is completely visible from the street "There is no 10-foot wall in the front, back or sides of the house - and no wall is going up," the neighbor said.
Trump on Sunday wrote in a tweet that a "wall" around the Obamas' home is the "same thing" that the U.S. needs on its southern border.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/neighbors-say-theres-no-10-foot-wall-outside-obamas-house/ar-BBREKws?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/31/trump-claims-theres-foot-wall-around-obamas-dc-home-neighbors-say-theres-not/?utm_term.a6ff1e56d985
The Obama house in the Kalorama neighborhood of NW Washington, D.C.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Eugene
(61,823 posts)Shocking!
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Just like any other day
IcyPeas
(21,842 posts)and does he ever question it? (of course he doesn't)
RambleTamble
(28 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)AdamGG
(1,287 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,719 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)Perhaps a 7-ft. wrought-iron and brick security fence with automated gate. Many movie stars and big business characters have much more fortification and far less visibility. I'm proud of the Obamas for maintaining that degree of visibility.
That sends a message to America: "we're still available to you!"......
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)but obviously he can't see past his nose either.
erronis
(15,185 posts)But he may be a contortionist. Able to stick his head up his ass and access other body parts from there.
wishstar
(5,268 posts)the walls look higher on Ivanka's place than the Obamas' house
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2017/01/09/ivanka-trumps-new-washington-dc-home/#2f78baad1e2c
Leith
(7,808 posts)because they planned to stay only as long as their daughters finish school in the DC area. Did I hear that right?
The point is that very few renters put up fences around the houses they rent. If there is a fence of some sort, it would have been there before the Obamas moved in.
Here I go again - trying to make some sort of sense around a chumpy pronouncement.
appalachiablue
(41,105 posts)Last edited Mon Dec 31, 2018, 06:28 PM - Edit history (1)
25 bathrooms to be put in the 2 old Kalorama townhouses he bought.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq2-why-washington-dc-will-win-jeff-bezos-mansion-2018-1
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Here I go again - trying to make some sort of sense around a chumpy pronouncement
Ms. Toad
(34,004 posts)It was put up by the Obamas. They had to get a variance in order to do it, according to one report.
It is not solid, and appears to be about 8' high (based on people standing next to the brick pillars that hold the wroghtt iron/steel fence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4095126/Workers-seen-building-wall-Obamas-new-Washington-DC-home.html
I haven't been able to find any photos of it completed (and Google blurs their house - likely for security reasons)
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)It's a typical right-wing Brit tabloid. Not owned by Murdoch, but not much different. Strong backer of the Tories and UKIP. According to Wikipedia: "The Daily Mail has been widely criticised for its unreliability, as well as printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research, and for copyright violations."
Personally, I'm surprised there isn't a solid wall around the Obamas' place. I would think all former presidents would need that form of protection against crazies who might want to settle scores, even after they've left office. I can't help but think that that enormous window in front would be a magnet to the AR-15-toting InfoWars crowd.
Ms. Toad
(34,004 posts)Believe me, I tried to find a more neutral source. It may well be that more reputable sources decided not to post current images for security reasons (especially since it's not a full wall). If the crazies have to drive there in order to even plan an attack, there is a potential they will be spotted scoping out the place, or recognized by on-the-ball secret service when they return.
Your second paragraph is precisely the reason Trump's analogy is a failure. There are actually crazies who have made numerous death threats against the Obamas - so building a barrier makes good sense. In contrast, our home-grown crazies are more dangerous than the people Trump is trying to keep out, not to mention that physical barriers work best to protect a specific, narrow, target than they do to divide people.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,148 posts)But yes, it started as a rental.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Phentex
(16,330 posts)they will probably have a fence anywhere they go.
elmac
(4,642 posts)of the president as much as tRump. He does disgusting things every day, things that normal, everyday people wouldn't think of doing let alone a president. Going after ex presidents like that is an all time low, even for the orange Nazi.
underpants
(182,632 posts)Couldn't they just show a picture and call Trump the lying turd that he is?
Ms. Toad
(34,004 posts)It seems odd, so there may intentionally avoiding photos?
There are construction photos here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4095126/Workers-seen-building-wall-Obamas-new-Washington-DC-home.html
underpants
(182,632 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,425 posts)And how can one stop photos from a public street?
BTW, the 10 foot wall is picture on Post #17 and it's not Obama's house.
Ms. Toad
(34,004 posts)There are times newspapers withhold photographs/parts of stories/etc. for security reasons. This may be one of those times- I was just providing a possible rationale in response to a question asked.
If you go to Google maps (not a newspaper - but related thinking about security) youwill discover that the view in the area of the Obama's home is distorted. Last night when I looked, from the street view, the street view of the home was distorted. This morning the view is clear - but it is the pre-Obama view of the house.
The wall in post 17 is approximately the same height - I don't really care whether it is 8' or 10', or whether anyone has a wall around their home or not.
As I've repeatedly told you - my beef is with our side using old photos that expressly or by implication misrepresent what they are in order to prove a political point. Trump is vile and a liar - we shouldn't be imitating his lying to prove he's vile.
KayF
(1,345 posts)they want to give both sides of whether 2 + 2 = 4
riversedge
(70,093 posts)appalachiablue
(41,105 posts)Autumn
(44,986 posts)Such a stupid fucking waste of breath.
appalachiablue
(41,105 posts)it's absurd.
Autumn
(44,986 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,140 posts)And damn he had me believing his f*cking crap.
This is so easily verifiable. Why would he bother? The man is acting irrationally. He needs to be institionalized before he hurts someone....oh he already did.
Girard442
(6,066 posts)He really could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it. They'd clean up the mess, Saudi-style, and keep going.
erronis
(15,185 posts)They'll put it down when the time comes. Too bad the boarish/boorish smell will put off any sausage makers.
angrychair
(8,684 posts)Not sure its the same thing. Lets say it did have a 10 wall around it, it would not have been due to the Obamas request and much more likely to have been a security requirement of the SS.
Physical security is not really up to them but Im sure they have some input though.
I can only imagine the level of abuse that trump will hoist on them if he doesnt get impeached.
angrychair
(8,684 posts)Its a ridiculous talking point. Lets say it did have a 10 wall around it, it would not have been due to the Obamas request and much more likely to have been a security requirement of the SS.
Physical security is not really up to them but Im sure they have some input though.
I can only imagine the level of abuse that trump will hoist on them if he doesnt get impeached.
snowybirdie
(5,219 posts)Is it really necessary to post the street and neighborhood here? There are nut jobs who might use that against the Obama family. Playing right into rTump's hands...endangering the former president and family. Please edit!
Autumn
(44,986 posts)I spent a while looking at it through Google maps last night. There's some interesting creative screening going on there. From the top, all the trees appear to have a mad infestation of web moths, and the house itself has a bit of a Peter B. Lewis feel.
jb5150
(1,177 posts)Those photos are years old. I just googled my address, and the picture shows a car I got rid of at least 8 years ago.
tanyev
(42,523 posts)Brilliant
littlemissmartypants
(22,599 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,677 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)like dumb donald wants built on the border. Ugly steel slats, 30 feet high.
keithbvadu2
(36,677 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)and a pic of Ivanka on it!
Rorey
(8,445 posts)I hope to one day again have our White House graced with such elegance.
maxrandb
(15,298 posts)in for questioning for creating danger to a former president and his family that are under secret service protection?
WTF - does this POS not understand that tweets like this put the Obama's in danger?
WhiteHat
(129 posts)I'm fine with Obama having a neighborhood wall as tall as necessary to keep out the apparently millions of wackjob haters throughout the US. But even the proven violent psycho hatred for the couple doesn't call for a 10-foot wall.
Another lie by our president, apparently.
Gothmog
(144,945 posts)Who is surprised by this?
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)djacq
(1,633 posts)Hes not getting his stupid wall.
PatrickforO
(14,559 posts)And they were decorative posts built onto an already existing low wall fronting the sidewalk.
This whole thing is based on yet another of the thousands of lies that spew forth from that orange-caked anus that Trump calls a mouth.
Disgusting.
Barack Obama was the best president in my lifetime and Michelle a wonderful First Lady.
PatSeg
(47,285 posts)He doesn't even try to come close to the truth.
irresistable
(989 posts)onethatcares
(16,163 posts)"most desirable neighbors" will never apply to the conman and his crew.
that's what really pissed him off.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)do we have to spend time/energy refuting them.
Kingofalldems
(38,425 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)This is a common setup of expensive homes. The retaining wall is needed because of the slant of the land, and it's not very tall, like most retaining walls.
FakeNoose
(32,599 posts)Maybe that's what the orange asshole meant?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Thought technically a wall, a retaining wall is to stop the terrain from shifting and soil sliding down, and isn't tall. But those are details.
He just sends out these whistle calls to his base, who are uneducated and uninformed, and will repeat anything he says. Like "lock her up!" Even though they don't know what it means, or the details, or even care if it's true.
They're in love. They stand by their man. Giving him two arms to cling to. And something warm to come to, when nights are cold and lonely.....
cstanleytech
(26,248 posts)in this country with violent tendencies that have an inability to control themselves.
dalton99a
(81,406 posts)Maeve
(42,271 posts)Shit--stop playing games and look at reality!!!!
Rory McRory Fitzrory
(23 posts)Because he's not a sniveling coward like Donnie!