Did Melania Trump really ruin the White House Rose Garden? Former First Lady claps back at accusations she ‘eviscerated’ it, as 80,000 sign petition to restore garden to its prior state
- NBC contributor Michael Beschloss claims ‘decades of American history’ disappeared after Donald Trump’s wife renovated the Rose Garden as first lady
- A petition with over 80,000 signatures is urging Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff, husband of vice-president Kamala Harris, to undo her changes
Former US first lady Melania Trump recently ripped into a presidential historian who had criticised the renovations she did on the White House Rose Garden.
Michael Beschloss, an NBC contributor and historian who specialises in the US presidency, took to Twitter on Saturday, August 7, to lambast Trump’s changes as an “evisceration” and affront to American history.
“Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim result – decades of American history made to disappear,” Beschloss wrote, alongside a picture of the garden from last year that doesn’t show many flowers.
The Twitter account for the Office of Melania Trump retweeted the post, accusing Beschloss of being “misleading” and doubting his credibility as a historian.
“@BeschlossDC has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy and colourful blossoming of roses,” the tweet said, alongside a photo of the Rose Garden that shows more flowers in bloom. “His misleading information is dishonourable and he should never be trusted as a professional historian.”
