Posted on 01/18/2017 7:49:09 PM PST by drewh
President Obama donated their daughters south lawn playground to a Washington homeless shelter as part of a Martin Luther King Day service project Monday, days before leaving office, according to WUSA 9.
Malia and Sashas wooden play set is now at the Jobs Have Priority shelter, a 28-apartment complex in southeastern Washington.
The First Family showed up to demonstrate how to use the equipment. The president pushed two girls in the swing, while Mrs. Obama showed a younger boy how to use the rope swing.
Brings back memories, Obama said while pushing the swing, noting that Sasha was not much smaller when the family moved into the White House eight years ago.
President and Mrs. Obama also spent about half an hour helping to paint a King-themed mural at the center, which primarily serves young African-American mothers with two to three young children, many with a mental, developmental or physical disability.
The mural Wall of Hope was created by artist Omatayo Akinbolajo and features a painting of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Obamas painted quietly for a few moments mostly coloring in butterflies.
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I can’t stand Obama & his family. I detest everything politically they have done or tried to do for the last 8 years.
But really, this is a nice gesture on their part. Donating the equipment and visiting the shelter for a couple of hours, hey I’ll give them a point for this one.
Who’s going to pay for the removal and installation?
ha ha we know, don’t we?
I just donated a dining table and 8 chairs to Salvation Army that was worth more than this playset. I guess I should’ve called the news crew. Lol
“I guess I shouldve called the news crew. Lol
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STOP THE PRESSES !!!!!-—— a conservative donated to a charity. :-)
(I can’t wait for Friday-—and see the last of this crew.)
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very true. Whatever happened to Amy Carter?
Yeah, seriously.
I’d also like to tally up our bill for the MoochMama as well.
Donating play structures doesn’t do anything except make the children happy. I agree, they need jobs but it’s not a bad thing to donate a play structure to a shelter.
It’s not mutually exclusive. You can donate a play structure and create jobs.
Take care, FRiend.
Wait a minute, the last time I heard, "south lawn" was when someone said part of the Whitehouse grounds was going to be used for something, maybe this playground. If that's the case, then how can Barry just give away part of the Whitehouse property which he doesn't own?
Wait a minute, the last time I heard, "south lawn" was when someone said part of the Whitehouse grounds was going to be used for something, maybe this playground. If that's the case, then how can Barry just give away part of the Whitehouse property which he doesn't own?
The Obamas think that this a really COOL thing to do.
I have never donated exercise equipment to people who are unable to exercise because they are too weak due to malnutrition.
I choose to donate food, along with vouchers for the local food banks, where the homeless can shop for quality food that doesn’t include canned soda.
We’re supposed to believe that they paid for it.
Couldn’t *possibly* leave it there, for the new kid about to show up on the block, I reckon.
I did see some furniture being loaded up in one of the moving vans on a clip about the moving truck in front of the WH.
Did they pay for that?
Is it his to donate?
Are you sure he donated it? I presume that he stole it, and gave away something that wasn’t his, and used taxpayer money to remove and install it at the homeless shelter. I bet he won’t even reseed the area that it was sitting on.
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