{"id":8997,"date":"2025-02-18T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:44:09","slug":"report-trump-proposes-changes-to-white-house-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/featured\/report-trump-proposes-changes-to-white-house-landscape\/njackson\/2025\/02\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Trump Proposes Changes To White House Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling making significant changes to the White House Rose Garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/us\/politics\/mar-a-lago-trump-grass-rose-garden.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that designers have already drafted various options. One of the variables that they are considering is whether to use \u201climestone or an easily interchangeable hard surface, with the possibility of installing hardwood floors for dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW <br><br>President Trump has been discussing plans to rip up the grass in the White House Rose Garden in order to have a patio like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago. <br><br>The White House Rose Garden was created at the direction of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. <br><br>Full Story:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6lsF5fnWCk\">pic.twitter.com\/6lsF5fnWCk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1890532618690531557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to the story by saying that Trump was seeking to spice up the historical structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe White House has not been given any tender, loving care in many decades, so President Trump is taking necessary steps in order to preserve and restore the greatness and glory of \u2018the People\u2019s House,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his first term in office, First Lady Melania Trump redesigned the Rose Garden. 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