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Top Conservative Claims Melania Trump SAVED the Rose Garden and Social Media Goes Crazy
Get ready to laugh. Or to be angry. Or both.
Melania Trump was often roasted for her decorating decisions while serving as first lady, but there’s one particular change she made to the White House that people want Jill Biden to reverse immediately.
In the summer of 2020, Melania unveiled a redesigned version of the White House Rose Garden that felt conspicuously void of, well, garden. It was awful. People hated it immediately.
Although the Rose Garden was created by first lady Ellen Wilson during President Woodrow Wilson’s tenure in 1913, first lady Jackie Kennedy famously remodeled the landscape into a lush garden with bright flowers in 1962. However, Melania Trump felt the garden needed a change to “fulfill the dynamic needs of the modern presidency,” according to CNN.
USA Today noted at the time that Trump chose to update the garden with “audiovisual equipment, cameras, paving, drainage, and lighting” but “removed 10 crab apple trees that lined the colonnade” in the process. She also “swapped out the vibrant roses and flowers for roses of white, cream, pale yellow, and pale pink.” According to the A.P., the White House had plans to replant the trees in another location.
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While a Change.org petition asking Jill Biden to reverse Melania Trump’s “update” was first posted in March, it has recently picked up more steam. As of June 2, there are almost 80,000 signatures calling on Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, to “restore the Rose Garden to Jackie’s original design.”
“Melania Trump had the cherry trees, a gift from Japan, removed as well as the rest of the foliage and replaced with a boring tribute to herself,” the petition created by user Liz Tapanes reads. “Jackie’s legacy was ripped away from Americans who remembered all that the Kennedys meant to us.”
Here is the petition if you want to sign it:
Why did Melania destroy Jackie Kennedy’s rose garden? Seriously, why? It was beautiful. Here is the petition to sign for FLOTUS to restore it. Btw, President Biden could also have it restored…men like flowers too…
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) April 29, 2021
However, one conservative think Melania SAVED the Rose Garden. Say what?
Yep, Brigitte Gabriel of ACT for America actually tweeted that.
Melania Trump SAVED the White House Rose Garden and now Joe Biden wants to waste our money destroying her work.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) April 30, 2021
Only in Trumplandia is what Melania Trump did to the Rose Garden a positive thing. pic.twitter.com/WI2K1GlOTH
— SERENITY NOW! (@JKolkin) April 30, 2021
how does removing every single Rose equates to saving the Rose Garden?
— Brian Villar ⁷ (@morbidjokr) April 30, 2021
No money should have been spent on cosmetics or construction in the first place. This doesn't need to be redone, it should be maintained as is, and any gardners who work on it should get a pay raise with any money they were going to use to change it "again".
— Siobhan Your Mask (@nahbois) April 30, 2021
Well he’s saving us millions by not golfing in Florida every weekend. I think we can afford it.
— Daniel Cash (@danjocash) April 30, 2021
she destroyed it. She destroyed the place of elegance and beauty so it would be ore suitable for press conferences.
— Bobbi Smith (@BobbiSm04990900) April 30, 2021
Isn’t it called the Rose Garden? Shouldn’t there be roses? I feel that tradition started by Jackie Kennedy was nice.
— Wendy McBride (@wendy_mcbride81) April 30, 2021
You didn’t complain when Melania or dolt 45 likes to call her Melanie, wasted taxpayers money ripping up the historical rose garden. Brigitte you have something in common will all conservatives worldwide, hypocrisy.
— William Connors ✌🏻🇨🇦 (@William58221390) April 30, 2021
Dear Brigitte, it’s called a garden for a reason. Lovely flowers, herbs or food, grow in gardens. What’s not going to grow there is the division you’re spewing behind your fork tongue. I can’t wait to see how the first family transforms the gardens again. @POTUS @FLOTUS pic.twitter.com/jl9Gx7hfvq
— Angela Noel (@angie4jesus) April 30, 2021
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