“Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder,” Trump wrote, boasting that he’s “built many GREAT Buildings, and other things, over the years.” He claimed that after spotting the 25-yard gash, “I started yelling, ’Who did this, and I want to find out now!”
“And I didn’t say this in a nice manner,” he added in the post. “I wondered, ‘Was it vandalism or, was it stupidity?’”
Trump said that, thanks to “the finest security equipment anywhere,” they were able to monitor surveillance footage and realized what had happened. They “brought back the stupid people, with their boss watching (in sunglasses!),” he wrote.
According to Trump, a subcontractor was using “heavy landscaping on a steel cart that was broken and tilting badly, with it rubbing hard against the soft, beautiful stone.”
“I love and respect great workers and contractors, but something like this should never happen,” Trump claimed. “Now, I’ll replace the stone, charge the contractor, and never let that contractor work at the White House again.”
“But, how great is the video equipment? We caught them, cold,” Trump concluded, including surveillance footage of the alleged incident in his post.
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