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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,034 posts)
Sun May 9, 2021, 10:06 PM May 2021

The White House needed extensive security upgrades but the Trumps didn't want to deal with the noise

Former President Donald Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump decided to pass along much-needed upgrades to White House security to President Joe Biden because they didn't want to deal with construction noise or alter the aesthetic, CNN reported.

The United States Secret Service, the National Park Service, and the White House worked together to implement new security changes in several phases so it wouldn't upset the first family, but when the final phase was set to start, the Trumps said they didn't want to deal with the construction.

The first lady specifically didn't want the effort to impact the aesthetics of the back lawn, where events could be hosted, CNN reported.

The needed updates have now been going on for several weeks and are forcing Biden to have to take a motorcade for about two minutes every time he wants to get on and off his helicopter, Marine One, because it can't land right by the White House.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-needed-extensive-security-055158577.html

Yeah but he let Melania tear up Michelle's vegetable garden and Jackie's rose garden.

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The White House needed extensive security upgrades but the Trumps didn't want to deal with the noise (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2021 OP
Probably better this way. I wouldn't trust anything with the Trumps JI7 May 2021 #1
I still want them to tear down that pavilion or whatever structure they built in the back soothsayer May 2021 #2
Didn't want to impact the aesthetics? Chicago1980 May 2021 #3
Yup - the people who tore out the Rose Garden ... StarfishSaver May 2021 #5
Seems they could have got it done while Needy Amin was off golfing gratuitous May 2021 #4
Did not want to disturb Putin's microphones. keithbvadu2 May 2021 #6
Winner! Walleye May 2021 #8
But didn't the replace the frigging commodes? Nexus2 May 2021 #7

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
2. I still want them to tear down that pavilion or whatever structure they built in the back
Sun May 9, 2021, 10:13 PM
May 2021

Just tear it down and see what’s buried under it.

Chicago1980

(1,968 posts)
3. Didn't want to impact the aesthetics?
Sun May 9, 2021, 10:14 PM
May 2021

This coming from the folks who needed a second fence around the premises to "protect them" from BLM protestors.

Whatever...

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Seems they could have got it done while Needy Amin was off golfing
Sun May 9, 2021, 10:15 PM
May 2021

Or gouging the taxpayers for another week or two at one of his properties.

Nexus2

(1,261 posts)
7. But didn't the replace the frigging commodes?
Sun May 9, 2021, 10:41 PM
May 2021

So their pasty pink posteriors would be forced to share a surface once befouled by brown buttocks? Or was that just internet vapor?

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