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Beautiful! lol

Sure, just like every construction site is a shithole. 9_9

The White House isn't quite as massive as it appears on TV; it measures about 55,000 square feet with 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 6 floors. By comparison, the sprawling Buckingham Palace is roughly 828,000 square feet, and many luxury mansions exceed 100,000 square feet.
- gemini

So going by your pic, it looks like the cleaning was being done during the Biden Administration.

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I will never visit the White House. The stench of Trump has tainted it forever.

(9 hours ago)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]

The point there is that if people hadn't of defaced it, it would get the clean up. So in some respect Trumps doing a great job at getting people to deface things to get cleaned up.

(9 hours ago)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]

The Rest of the Story
While the initial text-based graffiti from the protest was cleared within days during the Biden administration, the political meme relies on a distinction between a quick surface cleaning and a full, long-term rehabilitation:

Initial Graffiti Clean-up (2024): Specialized conservators utilized specialized chemical treatments and power-washers to pull the spray paint out of the porous white marble. The physical graffiti shown in your image was removed that week.

The "Today" Photo Context: The lower, pristine photo depicts a broader infrastructure restoration. The fountain had been plagued by mechanical issues, leaks, and structural weathering for well over a decade. The deep structural repairs, infrastructure overhaul, and restoration of the running water system were finalized later as part of a multi-million dollar federal initiative to revitalize D.C. landmarks.

The infrastructure restoration that got the fountain working again was ordered and completed under the Trump administration
- gemini