Melania ‘wiped out history’ with redesign of Rose Garden

MELANIA TRUMP has become embroiled in a row with a presidential historian who criticised her remodelling of the White House Rose Garden.

Michael Beschloss, a regular commentator on NBC News, accused the former First Lady of “eviscerating” the garden with her redesign. “Decades of American history made to disappear,” he wrote, one year after its completion.

In a tweet that would have done her husband proud, Mrs Trump fired back.

Mr Beschloss, she said “has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colourful blossoming of roses.

“His misleading information is dishonourable and he should never be trusted as a professional historian.”

Mrs Trump’s redesign was based on a desire to return the garden to the original form overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962. It sparked condemnation from the Left with a petition calling on Jill Biden to reverse the changes.

Bob Martin, president of the American Rose Society, backs Mrs Trump’s remodelling. “There were no roses at all in the White House Rose Garden immediately prior to the renovation made under the direction of Melania Trump,” he said. “As president of the American Rose Society and in consideration of the fact that the rose is America’s floral emblem, I had long encouraged the return of roses to the White House Rose Garden.”

“The work was necessary,” said an eminent horticulturist, who asked not to be named. “It was going to get done whoever was in the White House whether it was Trump or Hillary.

“The crab apples had been problematic to keep healthy for some time, so there may well have been practical reasons for their exclusion.”