The president claimed to have filmed a contractor vandalizing the masonry of his courtyard, the Rose Garden, which resembles a budget hotel.
On Friday evening, social media was abuzz with unfounded hopes that President Donald Trump had quietly passed away after a few relatively quiet days, with no plans for the weekend.
On Saturday morning, a photo emerged showing Trump preparing to play golf. On Saturday afternoon, the president had posted a message on Truth Social, supposedly proving he was alive and silencing the last doubters, allowing him to return to his favorite pastime: sabotaging his contractors.
Trump, who recently transformed the White House’s famed Rose Garden into a courtyard worthy of a budget hotel, wrote on Saturday that the Rose Garden was now “far more beautiful than anyone imagined when it was planned decades ago.” He emphasized, “Roofs are very important to me as a builder. As everyone knows, I’ve built many remarkable buildings, and then some, over the years.”
While admiring the stone, Trump said, “I happened to notice a large crack in the limestone that stretched for over 80 feet. It was deep and painful! I started yelling, ‘Who did this? I want to know now!'”—and I didn’t mean that kindly. I wondered, “Was it vandalism or stupidity?” Oh dear, because we had the best security equipment in the world, they fired those idiots, and their boss is watching them (with sunglasses!).
Trump wrote that the stone was damaged by a subcontractor who was “installing heavy landscaping on a broken, severely tilted steel dolly,” and shared a grainy video of the alleged incident.
The president declared his intention to “replace the stone, indict the contractor, and never allow him to work in the White House again,” adding, “I love and respect great workers and entrepreneurs, but nothing like this should ever happen.”
Throughout his career, Trump has built a long and illustrious reputation for contempt for entrepreneurs, workers, and family businesses. Now he appears ready to add another entrepreneur to his list.
It’s safe to say he’s doing well.