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Jackie Kennedy’s grandson has torn into Donald Trump over his decision to bulldoze her Rose Garden at the White House.
Jack Schlossberg said in a fiery post on Instagram that the president had “poured concrete” on the White House’s historic lawn. The political commentator accused Trump of seeing America in “black and white,” unlike the former First Lady.
“My grandmother saw America in full color — Trump sees black and white. Where she planted flowers, he poured concrete,” he wrote. “She brought life to the White House, because our landmarks should inspire and grow with our country.
“Her Rose Garden is gone, but the spirit of the Kennedy White House lives on — in the young at heart, the strong in spirit, and in a new generation answering the call to service.”
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Jack Schlossberg shared a picture of JFK Jr. in the White House’s Rose Garden as he railed against Trump’s decision to pave over the historic lawn (Cecil Stoughton/White House Photographs/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)
He included in the post a picture of John F. Kennedy Jr as a child, dressed in a pale blue suit and marvelling at his mother’s garden. The other picture he included showed the lawn being carved up and resurfaced to create Trump’s “Rose Garden Club.”
Schlossberg’s post comes as the President pushes ahead with plans to remake the White House in his own image.
After bulldozing and paving over Kennedy’s Rose Garden, Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House in an effort to make space for his $300m ballroom. The 90,000 sq ft entertainment space will dwarf the White House, which is 55,000 sq ft, in size.
However, according to Reuters, Trump still needs to submit his plans to the National Capital Planning Commission, the body that approves construction projects at the White House, despite having already blitzed the East Wing.
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Schlossberg has been a frequent critic of Donald Trump’s administration, and is calling on voters to ‘stop’ the Republican leader at the midterms (Getty)
Now, Schlossberg, who rocketed to fame with his off-the-wall social media posts, is calling on Americans to use their votes to “stop” Trump at the midterms.
“A year from now, we’ll get our last chance to stop Trump,” he wrote. “History is watching. We need leaders with courage, conviction and who actually care.”
Trump has previously expressed concern about his party’s prospects in the midterms, telling One America News Network that “the person that wins the presidency always seems to lose the midterms.”
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Trump transformed the Rose Garden into the ‘Rose Garden Club’ by paving over the grass (Getty)
Although this is often true, the Democrats bucked the trend in 2022, while Joe Biden was in office, by retaining control of the Senate and only narrowly losing the House.
Early polls have put the Democrats slightly ahead for the 2026 midterms, with a major survey by YouGov/The Economist, conducted in August, suggesting that 43.7 percent of voters plan to cast their ballots for the Democratic Party.
Conversely, 38.4 percent of people plan to vote for the Republicans, although that number plunges to 26 percent when independents are included in the poll.
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