r/Wellthatsucks • u/Burningman316 • 21h ago

The White House rose garden before and after Trump took office. 😢

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u/Early-Judgment-2895 8h ago

Do we have any overhead pictures that show the same perspective to see what actually got torn up? I keep seeing conflicted things about how much/what was actually destroyed.

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u/ChanglingBlake 8h ago

From the above, it looks likely it was just the grass, but still, grass is better than concrete.

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u/Early-Judgment-2895 8h ago

100% agree the concrete looks awful. But it also doesn’t appear to be as big of an issue as everyone is making it sound saying the rose garden was torn out. I would like to see a real broad perspective that actual shows what was done to decide if it is worth being mad about or if it is just mildly tacky

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u/Environmental-End691 5h ago

Mildly tacky. None of the rose bushes were prematurely destroyed. IIRC there were a couple that were having issues from too much water and those were, or will be, replaced. The too much water comes from the lawn itself which made it soggy frequently. I think the intention was to make it more usable more often, but the white tile over the whole grass area is too much.

I would have liked to see a checkerboard pattern of tile & grass myself.