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Trump gets his 100 ft flagpoles at the White House - picture updates [1]
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Date: 2025-06-18
Trump warned us on April 23rd that he was going to put in two 100 ft flagpoles flanking the White House. The flags themselves will have to be huge to not make the poles look ridiculous.
As I write, they're already digging the holes on the North and South White House lawns to hold them. Flags will be raised by 11am ET.
"It is a GIFT from me of something which was always missing from this magnificent place."
It changes the whole look of the White House forever. Subsequent presidents will have a hard time taking them down. There already is the one on top of the White House. That's enough. The "gift" part is simply silly. This is just one more in a long line of flag hugging, kissing and drooling over the flag. MAGA will love it while the rest of us cringe. The timing is really weird. Like drumming up support to attack Iran.
Trump and groundskeeper Dale Haney figuring out the placement.
"These are the most magnificent poles made --- They are tall, tapered, rust proof, rope inside the pole, and of the highest quality."
Interesting. Tapered. How wide at the bottom and how wide at the top? We would expect it to be of the highest quality. Probably made in China. Maybe the flags, too. He used flags made in China, and banners too, in his campaigns.
Maybe he'll put up a 51 star flag that was spotted across Layfayette Square on June 5th for adding Canada or Greenland.
"Hopefully they will stand at both sides of the White House for many years to come!"
He's already realized it's not such a great idea after all, and another president, if we ever have another one, might consider them unsightly and take them down.
In the meantime, it looks like Trump is putting his stamp on the White House. Next will be the gigantic $100 million ballroom that he says will come out of his own pocket along with the flagpoles.
It's just going to make the White House look weird. Even more so when he tries to hug and kiss it.
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Pictures coming in:
We know how wide it is at the bottom.
There goes the Rose Garden.
Trump supervising, of course.
There's a gold ball at the top. At least the pole is white instead of gold. I was wondering.
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