BREAKING: HUGE WASTE! Trump just ordered his brand-new $5 million helipad to be RIPPED UP and rebuilt mid-construction for the most RIDICULOUS reason.
BREAKING: HUGE WASTE! Trump just ordered his brand-new $5 million helipad to be RIPPED UP and rebuilt mid-construction for the most RIDICULOUS reason.
Weeks of round-the-clock construction. A 100-foot-wide granite presidential seal. All of it just got ripped apart on Donald Trump's orders — because he decided the South Lawn wasn't level enough for his taste.
Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse!
Trump has been racing to complete a new White House helipad before Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit in September. Contractors worked nonstop to hit the deadline. But when Trump saw the results, he wasn't satisfied — reportedly fixated on the fact that the South Lawn's natural slope meant the helipad wouldn't sit perfectly level with the horizon.
So he ordered everything disassembled, including the granite presidential seal that had already begun taking shape, and told contractors to consider literally reshaping the lawn itself.
Here's the thing: helipads don't actually need to be perfectly horizontal. Federal guidelines exist specifically to allow for some slope, to help with water runoff. This isn't a safety issue. This is Trump wanting things to look exactly how he personally envisions them, cost and timeline be damned.
And who's paying for this multimillion-dollar vanity project turned mid-construction do-over? Lockheed Martin — the defense contracting giant that owns Sikorsky, the manufacturer of Marine One's helicopters. It's genuinely unclear whether taxpayers, Lockheed, or someone else will be footing the bill for Trump's last-minute redesign demands.
Meanwhile, the White House's official response was pure spin, with spokesman Davis Ingle gushing that "thanks to President Trump, the White House has never looked better, and it will only continue to get better under his leadership" — conveniently ignoring that the project is now facing unknown delays and unknown additional costs, all because the president didn't like how flat his landing pad looked.
In the meantime, Marine One is landing on the Ellipse, a public park south of the White House, while Trump's dream helipad remains a half-finished construction site.
This is what happens when personal vanity dictates federal infrastructure decisions: wasted time, wasted money, and a torn-up White House lawn — all in service of one man's aesthetic preferences.
At least he hasn’t made them paint it gold…yet
Please like and share if Trump’s waste, fraud, and abuse make you angry!
Weeks of round-the-clock construction. A 100-foot-wide granite presidential seal. All of it just got ripped apart on Donald Trump's orders — because he decided the South Lawn wasn't level enough for his taste.
Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse!
Trump has been racing to complete a new White House helipad before Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit in September. Contractors worked nonstop to hit the deadline. But when Trump saw the results, he wasn't satisfied — reportedly fixated on the fact that the South Lawn's natural slope meant the helipad wouldn't sit perfectly level with the horizon.
So he ordered everything disassembled, including the granite presidential seal that had already begun taking shape, and told contractors to consider literally reshaping the lawn itself.
Here's the thing: helipads don't actually need to be perfectly horizontal. Federal guidelines exist specifically to allow for some slope, to help with water runoff. This isn't a safety issue. This is Trump wanting things to look exactly how he personally envisions them, cost and timeline be damned.
And who's paying for this multimillion-dollar vanity project turned mid-construction do-over? Lockheed Martin — the defense contracting giant that owns Sikorsky, the manufacturer of Marine One's helicopters. It's genuinely unclear whether taxpayers, Lockheed, or someone else will be footing the bill for Trump's last-minute redesign demands.
Meanwhile, the White House's official response was pure spin, with spokesman Davis Ingle gushing that "thanks to President Trump, the White House has never looked better, and it will only continue to get better under his leadership" — conveniently ignoring that the project is now facing unknown delays and unknown additional costs, all because the president didn't like how flat his landing pad looked.
In the meantime, Marine One is landing on the Ellipse, a public park south of the White House, while Trump's dream helipad remains a half-finished construction site.
This is what happens when personal vanity dictates federal infrastructure decisions: wasted time, wasted money, and a torn-up White House lawn — all in service of one man's aesthetic preferences.
At least he hasn’t made them paint it gold…yet
Please like and share if Trump’s waste, fraud, and abuse make you angry!
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