First lady Melania Trump faced backlash from social media users on Saturday, as photos of her completed Rose Garden refurbishment initiative sparked a range of objections online.
The Rose Garden is a White House relic, originally commissioned for landscaping renewal in the early 1960s, during John F. Kennedy's presidency.
"Can we talk about how Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden was colorful and diverse and beautiful and Melania just made it...
Can we talk about how Jackie Kennedyâs Rose Garden was colorful and diverse and beautiful and Melania just made it... white? pic.twitter.com/6jIendxup9 — Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) August 22, 2020.
Melania Trump has 'renovated' the Rose Garden in the White House (photo on the left) that was originally designed by Jackie Kennedy as a tribute to her husband John (photo on the right).
Now, as 175,000 -and climbing- American lives and millions of livelihoods have been lost, she unveils new & NOT improved Rose Garden.
The hashtag "Marie Antoinette" trended on Twitter shortly after photos of the Rose Garden began to circulate, as it did when Melania Trump first announced the renovation initiative last month. »