They could probably remove the concrete, dig the whole area out to some depth, bring in healthy soil and live compost, and replant. Would take money and time, but on that scale should be possible. (Or, what @Alessan said.)
Fixing the rest of the mess left behind is going to be a lot harder, and in some cases not possible.
I hope not, but I could totally see him trying it. As it is, before the next President moves in there will be an army of people with magic erasers scrubbing all the gold leaf off of the walls.
Removing the plaster (foam?) doo-dads underneath will be much more time-consuming. Rumor has it he’s been caught sticking things to the Oval Office walls with super glue and epoxy.
I chose ‘NOT EXACTLY’, which turned out to be the most common choice. I don’t think he’ll raze the White House completely to the ground, but as someone on social media somewhere said, “he’s going to leave his stink all over it”. Metaphorically and literally, no doubt.
The man is such a lose cannon that it’s hard to predict what he will do. He’s also a complete and total moron (no offense to other morons).
He will screw it up really good though. And steal everything he can get his tiny hands on. Say good bye to treasured artwork. He will ‘store’ it with all the secret documents he has stolen.
Ick. I never even thought of this. He is probably having underground climate-controlled storage caves dug at Mar-a-Lago right now. Not that he actually has taste. But rich dudes will pay big bucks for those old oil paintings, even the ugly, non-gilded ones. I mean ugly paintings, not ugly dudes. But the ugly dudes will pay a lot, too.
I hate that I know how this crook ‘thinks’. Never ever have I seen an adult (a dumb one at that) say ‘Mine, all Mine!!!’ Many come close though. Looking at you Elon.
I am reminded of a neighbour I once had. Not a close neighbour, thankfully, but he lived in the same street.
This was in the 1970s, and he was obsessed with DIY. He did a fair bit of internal work and then decided to remove the chimney breast in his sitting room. He apparently failed to realise that it was supporting the chimney above it and, in turn, the chimney on the roof. I came home from work one day to find that the chimney stack had collapsed through the roof.
About a year later, he decided he wanted a cellar, so he started excavating beneath the ground floor. Part of a wall collapsed, and the house was eventually condemned by the local council.
Is Florida really a good place to excavate beneath an existing structure?
I beg your pardon …?
Advanced, detail planning is NOT Demento Don’s mode of operation. The last person to have his ear, an imagined slight, a catchy twit (with picture so he can understand it); that’s what sets him off to action.
No promises.
A victim of his last conversation.
As a sorta hijack, for a guy who has no limits on money arising the presidency, surely the bushes weren’t chucked away but were offered to the highest bidder or the developer trousered them as a nice little earner.
They have been looked after well. With a little TLC and evidence of providence they’d flourish again at the centre piece of any enthusiast’s garden.
Except that a thousand years from now, archeologists might dig that up and find some evidence of Trump’s existence, an eventuality I find intolerable.
This actually raises a serious question:
How does Trump know what is valuable?
Six years ago, he took hundreds of boxes of classified documents to Mar a Lago. But he doesn’t know how to read–so why did he choose those specific boxes?
And similarly with artwork-- Trump has no way to now what is worth stealing,. Though I suppose he just assumes that the wider the gold frame is, the better the art.
Good point. But when in doubt, just take everything.
I’m guessing artwork in the W.H. ranges from sort of valuable to reeelly reeelly valuable. I mean, there probably aren’t any of those covered bridge pictures from Wal-Mart that you see at Motel 6. The fact that a piece once was in the W.H. at all makes it valuable to a collector like, say, Vlad or Xi.
Oh, he’ll probably be able to find some good ol’ boy contractor who will swear that he has ways and means of making it happen.
He can just have foreign agents use the bathroom with the documents that has a copy machine in it. It’s probably price per page.
I seem to recall that one thing he took to Mar-a-Lago was a letter from Kim Jong Un
that he liked to show off to people.
Sheesh man. The nation’s never going to recover if we just pull farther away from each other. Your attitude doesn’t help. Most of the people voting Republican are gulled by right-wing media and cynical assholes who are misleading and preying on them, and aren’t assholes at heart.
It’s a lot like post-Civil War America; you can go the Radical Reconstruction route, with all the problems and consequences, or you can try to go the Lincoln route, as described in his second inaugural address. For my part, I prefer the latter.
He’ll put a lining over the walls of the new vault(s) just to make sure. In a lovely shade of blue, kinda like the US flag.