President Trump said on Saturday he discovered “a huge gash in the limestone” while “admiring the stonework” of the completed Rose Garden project at the White House.
Trump said the gash stretched more than 25 yards.
“It was deep and nasty! I started yelling, ‘Who did this, and I want to find out now!’ —And I didn’t say this in a nice manner,” Trump wrote in a post to his Truth Social platform.
“I wondered, ‘Was it vandalism or, was it stupidity?’ Lo and behold, because of the fact that we’ve installed the finest security equipment anywhere, they brought back the stupid people, with their boss watching (in sunglasses!),” Trump continued.
Trump included surveillance footage in his post.
“It was a subcontractor that was installing heavy landscaping on a steel cart that was broken and tilting badly, with it rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone,” Trump said. “I love and respect great workers and contractors, but something like this should never happen. Now, I’ll replace the stone, charge the contractor, and never let that contractor work at the White House again.”
Trump concluded the post, writing, “But how great is the video equipment? We caught them, cold.”
