A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a Rose Garden by any other design might not, it seems. In late July, First Lady Melania Trump announced that she would renovate the 125-foot by 60-foot plot behind the White House. Advertisement“People were making this out like, ‘Well, [Melania] wanted to be like Jacqueline Kennedy, and therefore she’s doing this Rose Garden,’” McDowell said. A 241-page long Rose Garden report was drawn up before any changes were made. Who cares about a redesigned rose garden when we’re in the middle of a pandemic, 175k+ people are dead and millions are out of work?

Source: Los Angeles Times August 25, 2020 20:27 UTC