Trump blasts subcontractor for cracking the White House Rose Garden's marble
President Donald Trump just blasted a subcontractor for allegedly cracking the marble and stone of the White House Rose Garden.
What's more is that, according to Fox News, Trump has released video footage of the incident.
Take a look at this:
I used, at the White House, the most beautiful marble and stone available anywhere. Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder. As everyone knows, I built many GREAT Buildings, and other things, over the years. At the White House, I am very proud of the beautiful stonework we… pic.twitter.com/uEbhHsRIWu
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A "deep and nasty" crack
President Trump posted a message on social media revealing that he recently discovered a crack in the stone of the White House Rose Garden.
"I used, at the White House, the most beautiful marble and stone available anywhere. Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder," the president began.
He continued:
As everyone knows, I built many GREAT Buildings, and other things, over the years. At the White House, I am very proud of the beautiful stonework we did in the Rose Garden, in this case, using limestone plus. The Rose Garden is completed, and far more beautiful than anyone ever had in mind when it was conceived of, decades ago.
Recently, however, Trump says that he, "while admiring the stonework, happened to notice a huge gash in the limestone that extended more than 25 yards long." He described it as "deep and nasty!"
Suffice it to say that Trump was not happy about this.
"It was a subcontractor."
The president went on to explain how he launched an investigation into the cause of this.
He wrote:
I started yelling, “Who did this, and I want to find out now!” — And I didn’t say this in a nice manner. I wondered, “Was it vandalism or, was it stupidity?”
Trump says that he was able to answer these questions thanks to "the finest security equipment anywhere" that he had installed on the White House grounds.
The president wrote:
Lo and behold, because of the fact that we’ve installed the finest security equipment anywhere, they brought back the stupid people, with their boss watching (in sunglasses!). It was a subcontractor that was installing heavy landscaping on a steel cart that was broken and tilting badly, with it rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone. I love and respect great workers and contractors, but something like this should never happen. Now, I’ll replace the stone, charge the contractor, and never let that contractor work at the White House again.
That solves that! Trump concluded, "But, how great is the video equipment? We caught them, cold."