{"id":147792,"date":"2025-07-11T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=147792"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:09:13","slug":"trump-foots-the-bill-for-giant-american-flags-installed-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/trump-foots-the-bill-for-giant-american-flags-installed-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump foots the bill for giant American flags installed at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/category\/breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>247 Real News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> July 11, 2025 <\/em> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Giant American flags have been installed on both the North and South Lawns of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>And the U.S. taxpayers did not pay for them. President Donald Trump personally footed the bill for the flags.<\/p>\n<p>The president said: \u201cThey\u2019ve needed flag poles for 200 years. It was something I\u2019ve often said, \u2018You know, they don\u2019t have a flag pole per se,\u2019 so we\u2019re putting one right where you saw us, and we\u2019re putting another one on the other side, on top of the mounds. It\u2019s going to be two beautiful poles. Paid for by Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Trump on the North Lawn of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> looking for the perfect spot to put a 100ft tall American Flag pole\u2014he will determine a second spot on the South Lawn as well, at his personal expense\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ckAR0tndf\">pic.twitter.com\/2ckAR0tndf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Scavino (@Scavino47) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scavino47\/status\/1915075327778320503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New American Flag gracing the South Lawn of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> &#8211; June 18th, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8CwHJFv8Ko\">pic.twitter.com\/8CwHJFv8Ko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Office of the First Lady (@FirstLadyOffice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirstLadyOffice\/status\/1935417911411359852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LhvTsuJEbIA?si=-g1Pgx5VYgeE2lc3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff \/ 247 Real News July 11, 2025 Giant American flags have been installed on both the North and South Lawns of the White House. And the U.S. taxpayers did not pay for them. President Donald Trump personally footed the bill for the flags. The president said: \u201cThey\u2019ve needed flag poles for 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":147793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[112,6],"class_list":["post-147792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-exclusives","category-world-tribune","tag-trump-foots-the-bill-for-giant-american-flags-installed-at-white-house","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}