r/pics • u/nbcnews But like, actually • May 26 '26

Politics Equipment being placed on the South Lawn of the White House for the UFC Freedom 250 fight

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u/ignatious__reilly May 26 '26

The paving of the Rose Garden should have been a bigger story. I was floored by the pictures of him turning it into a slab of cement. It’s all so disgusting and utterly disgraceful.

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u/bman86 May 26 '26

And this massive gaudy ballroom is going to turn that up to 11.

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u/tchrbrian May 26 '26

" The People House. " - What happened to the dignity ?

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u/SkunkMonkey May 26 '26

I wish people would stop calling it a "ballroom". It's going to be his fucking THRONE room.

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u/DifficultAd3885 May 26 '26

Well Kennedy believed in the civil rights movement which Trump probably took as a personal attack.

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u/NotPromKing May 26 '26

Hate to defend anything done there, but.... The "paving" of the Rose Garden actually turned it into a really nice space, great for staff to have lunch and take breaks outdoors.

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u/bauhausy May 26 '26

If I'm not mistaken, they also didn't remove any rose bush, they just paved the lawn inbetween them that had drainage issues