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Did you know that the Jackie Kennedy Rose Garden was also torn apart with the East Wing demolition ??? (Original Post) Bread and Circuses Friday OP
What was left of our Rose Garden is all gone now. Deuxcents Friday #1
The Jackie Kennedy Garden was, the Rose Garden was already wrecked obamanut2012 Friday #2
That's awful, what a nasty pos. Dave Bowman Friday #3
Of course it was. Nothing is sacred to this fuckhead. Initech Friday #4
And 6 trees, two designated as memorial trees. pat_k Friday #5
Trump has stuck a knife in the back of the body politic and is now twisting it like a sadist. Blues Heron Friday #6
Trump and the republicans. It's not just trump. Biophilic Friday #8
True, markodochartaigh Friday #9
As we all know, destroying a Nations' actual history and replacing it with a Regime-Approved one AZJonnie Friday #7
Orwell, markodochartaigh Friday #10

pat_k

(12,142 posts)
5. And 6 trees, two designated as memorial trees.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 06:33 PM
Friday

I know the regime is perpetrating far more devastating crimes against humanity, but this strikes a nerve. It is so infuriating and heartbreaking I can hardly breathe.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/historic-magnolia-trees-kennedy-garden-removed-east-wing/story?id=126822108

At least six trees that once surrounded the East Wing appear to have been removed from the White House grounds, according to the images.
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Two historic magnolia trees originally dating to the 1940s -- designated as commemorative trees for Presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- appear to have been removed during the construction.

A magnolia tree commemorating Harding was originally planted by first lady Florence Harding in 1922 northeast of the entrance to the original 1902 East Wing, according to the National Park Service. The tree was replanted in 1947 and later re-designated as a commemorative tree in the 1950s, according to the park service.

The Roosevelt tree was originally planted in 1942 southeast of the entrance to the newly constructed East Wing, according to the park service. The tree was designated as a commemorative tree in the mid-1950s.


Biophilic

(6,220 posts)
8. Trump and the republicans. It's not just trump.
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 06:49 PM
Friday

They are supporting and enabling. He is not alone in this national destruction.

markodochartaigh

(4,498 posts)
9. True,
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 08:16 PM
Friday

if it wasn't for many morbidly rich people, much of the media, and almost one third of the electorate, Trump would just be a kkklownish buffoon with a failed TV show.

AZJonnie

(1,951 posts)
7. As we all know, destroying a Nations' actual history and replacing it with a Regime-Approved one
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 06:45 PM
Friday

that white-washes (almost literally) it, and glorifies the dominant culture, and the dictator themselves is FASCISM 101.

markodochartaigh

(4,498 posts)
10. Orwell,
Fri Oct 24, 2025, 08:17 PM
Friday

"he who controls the past controls the future; he who controls the present controls the past".

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