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Frustrated Trump's 'telling' White House redo sparks internet firestorm: 'Ridiculous’
The Lawn Must BowPower, Not TasteThe reporting is simple: Trump is unhappy with the helipad work on the White House South Lawn and has pushed contractors to tear up what they built, possibly even alter the lawn itself to make the pad sit level with the horizon. Crews are working around the clock ahead of Xi Jinping’s visit next month. That is the fact pattern. The rest is the usual fog of personality coverage.What matters is not whether the president is fussy. It is that he can turn a public landscape, paid for by public authority and executed by contractors, into a private standards test…
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