President Trump is getting ready to officially debut the newly updated White House Rose Garden by testing the new speakers – with Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to be an American,” of course.
Video on X Tuesday shows the refurbished area outside the West Wing of the White House, now consisting of white stone pavers instead of grass.
“We are testing the speakers for what will be the greatest event in the history of the White House!” -President Trumppic.twitter.com/hfOmFZvmFz
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) August 19, 2025
Criticism of the new look began months ago when Trump first talked of redoing the outside space with a more practical ground cover. That area of the executive mansion’s grounds, often used for ceremonial and diplomatic events, has had a tendency to display the pitfalls of any American’s backyard: wetness, mud and uneven ground.
According to an Aug. 4 report in Newsweek, Trump is more than enthusiastic about the makeover.
“We’re getting great reviews of the Rose Garden, and we had to do it,” Trump told reporters on Aug. 3, adding that the manicured lawn presented problems when hosting events.
“When we had a press conference, you’d sink into the mud. It was grass and it was very wet, always wet and damp and wet and if it rained it would take three, four, five days to dry out and we couldn’t use it really for the intended purpose,” Trump said.
The new look has been compared to Mar-a-Lago, the Trumps’ “gaudy palace in Palm Beach, Florida,” as The Guardian described it.
As Amuse on X points out, the Rose Garden has gone through several different iterations since the early 20th century:
“President Trump’s decision to replace the grass lawn with a grid of stone pavers should be understood not as desecration, but as correction, and a long-overdue one at that. If anything, the outrage at this change reveals a profound ignorance of the Rose Garden’s true nature. It is not, and has never been, a museum piece. It is a working space. It is a site of activity, visibility, and power. And it has always evolved.”
Typical critiques slammed Trump’s more practical approach to the space, like this post claiming it “looks worse than anyone could have ever imagined.”
Dear God. The Rose Garden renovation looks worse than anyone could have ever imagined.
Here’s hoping the next president will rip this up and restore its beauty. pic.twitter.com/NJd2IO5bdD
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) August 1, 2025
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