NBC News "presidential historian" Michael Beschloss
Posted on 06/12/2025 11:32:03 AM PDT by simpson96
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump began their latest White House renovations on Monday, June 9, as workers broke ground to begin paving over parts of the historic Rose Garden.
Photos of the initial construction show a grassy area being dug up and parts of a limestone border — installed by Melania during her husband’s first term in office — being moved so that workers can lay down a concrete surface within the border.(snip)
Melania faced significant backlash when she initially redid the Rose Garden in 2020. The first lady even made a rare public statement after NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss described her botanical vision as “grim.”
"Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim result—decades of American history made to disappear," Beschloss said in 2021, referencing the limestone border Melania laid down in the outdoor space, which often hosts speeches and receptions for visiting dignitaries, sports teams and more.
Melania’s office fired back at Beschloss on X, sharing a different photo that showed the garden was in full bloom.
".@BeschlossDC has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colorful blossoming of roses," they wrote at the time. "His misleading information is dishonorable & he should never be trusted as a professional historian."
Amid news of the latest changes to the garden, a White House official explained to PEOPLE that the 2020 renovation was an attempt to restore the Rose Garden to the design envisioned by Bunny Mellon, who redesigned the outdoor space in 1961 at the request of President John F. Kennedy.
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NBC News "presidential historian" Michael Beschloss
Looks like the son of Don Rickles...what a hockey puck.
“Melania’s Controversial Redesign...”
Controversial because the lib media says so. Disgusting and dispicable
Someone on Biden’s team brings cocaine into the White House.
People magazine doesn’t care. Neither does NBC.
Melania Trump does a minor renovation to the White House lawn.
People magazine and NBC take great offense.
I think those folks have their priorities mixed up.
Or maybe they’re just Democrat Party shills.
Turn it into a great big cannabis garden surrounded by opium poppies and see how the media would report that. LOL
I’d ring the WH with poison ivy and stinging nettles
People? That is still a magazine?
True but in fairness, people on here were outraged when Michelle made a garden. So both sides can be over the top with emotion.
“Turn it into a great big cannabis garden surrounded by opium poppies and see how the media would report that. LOL”
We wouldn’t know how the media would report it. That would depend on whether the President was R or D.
Didn’t Big Mike turn it into some kind of defeat garden? Grew some weeds and kale.
I think Kamala had a "weed" plant garden as well.
♫ I beg your pardon... ♬
A face that seriously needs a cream pie?
Belch. Melania paves over DC swampland. Let’s keep a historical perspective.
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