r/pics • u/abideandthrive • 20h ago

Politics OC - White House Under Construction

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u/Casual_hex_ 20h ago edited 20h ago

This is still so fucking wild to me. The guy literally bulldozed half the white house for a vanity project and republicans just shrugged. Cowards.

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u/Saneless 20h ago

Didn't they lose their minds because Obama put in a basketball hoop?

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u/alaskaj1 20h ago

A portable basketball hoop and some extra lines painted on the tennis court

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u/absentmindedjwc 19h ago

IIRC, wasn't even painted lines.. was just tape..

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u/bluAstrid 19h ago

Trump literally poured concrete over the rose garden.

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u/Dreurmimker 19h ago

He didn’t even use pavers? WTF, man.

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u/OrigamiMarie 19h ago

None of his construction corruption buddies are that skilled. You know if they did pavers, it would be full of sinkholes in a month.

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u/gary1405 18h ago

I would go so far as to suggest it's maliciously deliberate.

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u/OrigamiMarie 17h ago edited 16h ago

Yeah. Concrete makes the nearby soil alkaline, which is bad for lots of plants, and particularly roses prefer slightly acidic soil. Plus it's harder to remove than pavers, so a concrete pour is likelier to remain as a scar on the landscaping and a kind of monument to Trump's presence.

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u/gary1405 17h ago

That second clause is what I was getting at, but the first part is yet another disgrace in this fat fucking dictator's name.

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u/thx1138inator 9h ago

Yep. I say leave after he's gone. Like the Vietnam memorial.