President Trump hopes to continue making DC safe and beautiful again by planting more trees in Lafayette Square near the White House.
Washington Post The two people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the commander-in-chief’s plans for the region. Trump wants to plant maple trees, bringing the total number of trees in the square to 47 – commensurate with his status as the 47th President of the United States.
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The park has historically contained several dozen trees, although some have been removed during renovation. It’s unclear how many additional trees Trump will plant to reach 47 and whether he will remove any existing trees as part of his effort. Officials cautioned that like Trump’s other building and design projects — which he has admitted he has tended to micromanage — nothing is final until the president formally announces it.
Trump is said to have visited the park over the weekend to inspect the renovations that have taken place so far around the nation’s capital.
“I have just returned from a tour of various statues, monuments, fountains and, most importantly, an old and dilapidated golf course located in our nation’s capital, Washington, DC,” Trump wrote on Sunday.
“Almost all the statues, monuments and fountains have been completely renovated and restored, and after years of graffiti, abuse and vandalism, are in perfect shape. They are truly beautiful, even better than the day they were built,” he added:
The project is one of several as Trump initiates restoration of fountains and monuments across the city ahead of America’s sesquicentennial celebrations.
“It’s a credit to President Trump and his leadership,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. Breitbart News Daily Weeks ago, Trump’s improvements to the city were discussed
“In a city where – all over the city – all these pocket parks, circle parks, triangle parks, city parks are all run by the National Park Service. So, President Trump said we don’t have to accept filth and homelessness. We don’t have to accept sites full of decrepit graffiti, and so under President Trump’s leadership, you know, we’ve removed 152 homeless camps,” he said, explaining that “beauty is a choice.”
“This is a beautiful city with beautiful monuments, and as we approach our 250th anniversary, President Trump cares deeply about that,” Burgum said, highlighting the restoration of the Columbus Fountain and Meridian Hill Park’s Cascading Fountain as examples.
The Columbus Fountain was a homeless camp 16 months ago, he said, and the Cascading Fountain had not been operating for “decades.”
“It was such a dilapidated, overgrown, homeless camp,” he said, later adding, “It’s a choice. Leadership is a choice. As opposed to living in squalor, living in beauty is a choice.”
