(Washington) While the world wonders about a possible military intervention by the United States in Iran, American president Donald Trump, determined to leave his mark on the interior decor as exterior of the White House, attended the installation of a giant flag in the gardens on Wednesday.
The 79-year-old Republican President made a military salute while the star banner was climbed at the top of a mast just over 26 meters high, planted on the southern lawn of the White House, from where the presidential helicopter arises.
Donald Trump, whose taste for ostentatious or flashy accessories is perfectly assumed, was accompanied by the businessman Charles Kushner, who had just taken an oath as a new United States ambassador to France and the Principality of Monaco.
Photo Evan Vucci, Associated Press
The new flag on the southern lawn of the White House
He is the father of Jared Kushner, husband of the eldest daughter of the president, Ivanka. Both also present, with other guests, to see the flag rise.
Charles Kushner served a prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2004 tax fraud, subornation of witnesses and illegal contributions to electoral campaigns.
Donald Trump wanted another giant flag, this time on the north lawn, at the front of the immaculate residence of 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.
“The most magnificent”
He had put heavily so that the day of his second inauguration on January 20, 2025, the flags put at half mast throughout the country in tribute to former president Jimmy Carter float exceptionally at the top of the masts.
And in 2006, he had engaged an showdown with the authorities of Palm Beach, Florida, because of a monumental American flag, violating the local urban planning rules, installed at his private residence in Mar-A-Lago.
On its Truth Social network the former real estate developer, never stingy with superlatives, had written that the two masts installed in the White House were “the most magnificent ever installed. »»
He assured funding them himself, at a cost of $ 50,000.
The American president also multiplied the golden ornaments in the oval office, undertaken to paver the lawn of the Roseraie which adjoins him, and wants to build a ballroom.
Donald Trump, who likes to contemplate his own effigy, also exhibits a bronze statuette in the White House and a large canvas representing the raised fist, shortly after escaping an assassination attempt in Butler (Pennsylvania), on July 13, 2024, during the presidential campaign.
