Trump solves White Home whodunit within the Rose Backyard

[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s love of surfaces (marble and stone specifically) may have opened a brand new profession path for him: detective-in-chief.

Trump introduced that he had efficiently solved a White Home whodunit involving “limestone plus” that was not too long ago put in within the Rose Backyard in Reality Social publish on Aug. 30.

“Three days in the past, whereas admiring the stonework, I occurred to note an enormous gash within the limestone that prolonged greater than 25 yards lengthy. It was deep and nasty!,” he wrote. “I began yelling, “Who did this, and I need to discover out now!” — And I didn’t say this in a pleasant method. I puzzled, “Was it vandalism or, was it stupidity?”

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Steel tables and chairs together with yellow umbrellas beautify a paved over historic White Home Rose Backyard garden on August 16, 2025 in Washington, DC.

However fortunately for Trump, the White Home, with its “most interesting safety gear wherever” was capable of determine the obvious culprits by way of video footage.

“They introduced again the silly folks, with their boss watching (in sun shades!),” wrote Trump.

The subcontractor, Trump mentioned, was utilizing a metal cart that was “damaged and titling badly, with it rubbing arduous towards the smooth, stunning stone.”

The subsequent plan of action?

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Trump mentioned he’ll “change the stone, cost the contractor, and by no means let that contractor work on the White Home once more."

"Surfaces are essential to me as a Builder," he wrote.

The Rose Backyard renovation, which concerned ripping up sod and changing it with a stone, had been happening all summer time. The mission had been accomplished when Trump seen the "gash" within the stone. The White Home didn't instantly reply to when the redo can be accomplished. Trump beforehand mentioned he got here up with the thought for the brand new floor after watching ladies's heels getting caught within the mud.

Trump's been on a redecorating and reworking binge in and across the White Home – from a golden overhaul of the Oval Workplace to tearing up the sod within the Rose Backyard to pave it over with white stone. He’s additionally planning on including a 90,000-square-foot ballroom within the East Wing.

No phrase on whether or not the crime fixing spree was what stored the president out-of-public view from Tuesday − when he presided over a three-hour marathon Cupboard assembly − to Saturday when he lastly emerged to play golf.