• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    It looks like they’re getting rid of the grass that was under the seating area. They’re also putting French drains around that gathering area.

    The roses and topiaries are still there, they’re just redoing the area where the chairs and tables go.

    This is landscaping change is pretty low on my lists of concerns about Trump. I have a lot of greenery in my yard, and I also put gravel and stone under the seating areas.

  • floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Does this guy just sit up all day trying to find new ways to be a fucking piece of shit asshole?

    • Today@lemmy.world
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      Yeah how you wake up at 3:00 in the morning with a great idea but by noon you realize it was stupid. Noon never comes for him.

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      It’s part of the strategy.
      Overwhelm the news cycle, see what the news picks up and push that more, let the actual bad stuff go under-reported.

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        Exactly. Yet another truly awful something is about to happen that’ll get buried under his new patio.

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        People keep trying to attribute planning to what can be much more plausibly explained by idiocy. Trump is not “strategically” dozing the rose garden to distract from the real news, he’s just a tasteless brutish moron.

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          It’s the gish gallop of news: do as much bullshit as possible so nothing can be effectively blocked or countered.

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          People keep trying to attribute maliciousness to stupidity as well. Mostly because it’s easier to dismiss stupidity than argue against it.

          He’s shortsighted, narcissistic, and petty. But he doesn’t do things just to prove how much of a big idiot he is. Dismissing everything he does as “idiocy” just gives him more leash to piss on everyone from.

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          He is. But the people around him and controlling/handling him aren’t idiots.
          It’s either in project 2025, or some other republican playbook. Scattershot out a bunch of crazy news to swamp the news cycle and overwhelm everyone, then get to work doing the dirty stuff

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      The deck chairs on the titanic aren’t going to rearrange themselves. If It wasn’t for shit like this he’d have to actually govern

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    Cosmetic injustices like this are an intentional distraction from the regime’s attempts to steal all public funds, kill Americans who need Medicaid, continue their ethnic cleansing campaign at home and support Israel and Russia’s ongoing genocides.

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      Oh, it will happen.

      And when will he force every home and business to have a portrait of himself on the walls? Because, that will probably happen, too.

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        Nah, he cares about that holiday, not ones that celebrate minorities. So I’m guessing some time again this month in opposition to Pride, or Indigenous Peoples’ Day will have some bullshit. Even though Google already got rid of that from their calendars and kept Columbus.

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    The rose gardes deco has gotten controversy, but a green space seems way better then drab concrete. Such a tall flagpole wont even be seen in press conferences. I bet he got stuck in some mud and got mad, and the flag pole is a vain attempt to say hes got a huge pole…

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      I bet he got stuck in some mud and got mad,

      That really is all there is to it. Dude can barely navigate stairs. Actually walking on grass after rain makes him look dopy and his ego can’t handle it

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        Concrete holds a LOT of heat. A summer news appearance on it with normal hear heat, humidity, lights could cause heat exhaustion or stroke, since the very young and elderly body temperatures have trouble regulating.

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      Melania was expected to do something with it and she had no interest. This reflected poorly on her in a lot of people’s expectations, and so the two of them were like “fuck the rose garden.” End of story. The Trumps will never have class so they figure no one else can either.

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    Don’t worry! Once the newly poured concrete has cured, they’re going to cover it in gold tin foil and it’ll be fabulous.

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    Is this just to lower the property value? I thought Trump understood things about real estate.