Former First Lady Melania Trump is hitting back at a historian who criticized her White House Rose Garden redesign, calling his information “dishonorable.”
Michael Beschloss, presidential historian for NBC News, tweeted over the weekend, “Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim result — decades of American history made to disappear.”
Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim result—decades of American history made to disappear: @dougmillsnyt pic.twitter.com/78OqjkoOPt
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 7, 2021
Trump’s office tweeted in response, “[Michael Beschloss] has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy [and] colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable [and] he should never be trusted as a professional historian.”
.@BeschlossDC has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable & he should never be trusted as a professional historian. https://t.co/LU243SANF1 pic.twitter.com/PuVOSjxx5w
— Office of Melania Trump (@OfficeofMelania) August 8, 2021
In August 2020, the former first lady revealed the Rose Garden’s redesign.
Trump was criticized at the time as claims circulated that she removed roses from every first lady since 1913. Users on social media also claimed Trump removed Jaqueline Kennedy’s crab apple trees. As Reuters reported at the time, “This claim is false.”
“According to a garden historian, the original roses were removed in 1962 and subsequent administrations have changed certain roses. The White House Landscape report shows that none of the original crab apple trees from the Kennedy administration remained when the renovation work began,” the publication reported.
