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<p>Melania Trump may no longer First Lady of the United States, but she left her mark on the White House rose garden&mdash;by decimating it.</p><h2>On the year anniversary of Melania&#39;s heavily-criticized redesign of the garden, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss took to Twitter to remind people of the damage.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">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: <a href="https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dougmillsnyt</a> <a href="https://t.co/78OqjkoOPt">pic.twitter.com/78OqjkoOPt</a></p>&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1424025074617749505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim result&mdash;decades of American history made to disappear,&quot; he tweeted.</p><h2>Melania Trump, who apparently has both an &quot;office&quot; and a Twitter account (congrats!), responded to the criticism by calling Beschloss a fraud and a liar.</h2><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BeschlossDC</a> has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy &amp; colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable &amp; he should never be trusted as a professional historian. <a href="https://t.co/LU243SANF1">https://t.co/LU243SANF1</a> <a href="https://t.co/PuVOSjxx5w">pic.twitter.com/PuVOSjxx5w</a></p>&mdash; Office of Melania Trump (@OfficeofMelania) <a href="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;.<a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC" role="link">@BeschlossDC</a> has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy,&quot; she/her office tweeted. &quot;The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy &amp; colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable &amp; he should never be trusted as a professional historian.&quot;</p><p>As far as we know, this is Melania&#39;s first attempt to drag someone on Twitter (normally she claps back at the haters on a different platform: <a href="https://www.someecards.com/news/news/melania-trump-immigrants-visit-jacket/" target="_blank">her jacket</a>). And maybe, like gardening, Twitter clap-backs just aren&#39;t her thing.</p><p>People quickly pointed out all the problems with the former First Lady calling Beschloss a fraud. They had a lot to work with.</p><h2>Here&#39;s how Twitter responded to Melania&#39;s attempt to shut down a White House historian:</h2><p>1.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288" height="344" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-84255-am-izYue1.jpg" width="1176" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>2.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288" height="388" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-84304-am-W9AIsD.jpg" width="1170" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>3.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288" height="512" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-84531-am-DlU2Xj.jpg" width="1174" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>4.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Melania&#39;s shot cherry-picks a vantage point from behind a tree that&#39;s not part of the side garden.<br><br>Why?<br><br>Because in a false equivalence, its &quot;borrowed&quot; foliage appears to substitute for the rows of cherry trees that were destroyed, and inflates the ratio of plants to structures. <a href="https://t.co/8wY2UY8jxL">pic.twitter.com/8wY2UY8jxL</a></p>&mdash; Office of Monty Boa (@MontyBoa99) <a href="https://twitter.com/MontyBoa99/status/1424432595140595712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You killed paradise &amp; put up a purslane lot <a href="https://t.co/38hHHSQJz8">pic.twitter.com/38hHHSQJz8</a></p>&mdash; jessie (@JessieOnTheEdge) <a href="https://twitter.com/JessieOnTheEdge/status/1424386370550870017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>6.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/FozzieBear88/status/1424425865950031874" height="396" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-84712-am-6GkZv7.jpg" width="1134" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/FozzieBear88/status/1424425865950031874">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288" height="296" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-84831-am-xwJlzU.jpg" width="968" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>8.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="tl" dir="ltr">You have an “office”…<br>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA<br>Is it a mock up of <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MichelleObama</a>’s real office where she does real things? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 <a href="https://t.co/INajAZ3iY3">pic.twitter.com/INajAZ3iY3</a></p>&mdash; Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1424424905613905933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>9.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So the person who wore this when visiting ‘a detention facility in Texas for immigrant children who had been separated from their parents at the border’ (<a href="https://twitter.com/TheWrap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheWrap</a>) cares about a historian’s opinion of a ROSE GARDEN?? 😑 <a href="https://t.co/2fctn8WBgQ">pic.twitter.com/2fctn8WBgQ</a></p>&mdash; Fozzie 🐼 🧸 🐨 🐻 (@FozzieBear88) <a href="https://twitter.com/FozzieBear88/status/1424425865950031874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>10.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No matter what you say, you still took a beautiful, colorful, historic garden with graceful cherry trees &amp; you destroyed its charm and dignity. It is now appears to be a bland, tasteless, overcrowded, chaotic weed patch void of any class. <a href="https://t.co/e7wIdqYA6l">pic.twitter.com/e7wIdqYA6l</a></p>&mdash; G-Barb ☮ (@wilycyotee) <a href="https://twitter.com/wilycyotee/status/1424556269365432324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288" height="440" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-84751-am-dalOgr.jpg" width="1034" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>12.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288" height="620" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-84800-am-XkR1b8.jpg" width="1158" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/OfficeofMelania/status/1424376561785057288">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">She turned Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden into a mini Gorky Park. <a href="https://t.co/ycyOseO3Jw">pic.twitter.com/ycyOseO3Jw</a></p>&mdash; scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottLinnen/status/1424393837791830016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>14.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looks like Gorky Park. Stealing someone else’s idea. Again. Right Meredith McIver? <a href="https://t.co/lG0SXrXSsV">pic.twitter.com/lG0SXrXSsV</a></p>&mdash; slappysquirrel (@slappysquirrel) <a href="https://twitter.com/slappysquirrel/status/1424386868179779590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Your pic is a closeup. If u zoom in on his, it shows the exact same thing. Sadly, you ripped out the colorful beauty (and years of growth) that the iconic Jackie O helped to design. Sad. <a href="https://t.co/dQRVK7pWnX">pic.twitter.com/dQRVK7pWnX</a></p>&mdash; bethanne (@mctabbykat) <a href="https://twitter.com/mctabbykat/status/1424383528347832325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>16.)</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Two Atrocities: <br>1) Removing the historic trees. <br>2) Doing so to get this teevee shot so they could whore out the WH as a political prop for the RNC convention. <a href="https://t.co/PY7isI7CEF">pic.twitter.com/PY7isI7CEF</a></p>&mdash; scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottLinnen/status/1424396308962492416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>17.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/JRTHuntress/status/1424395614713008133" height="626" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-85856-am-gRbpLk.jpg" width="1170" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/JRTHuntress/status/1424395614713008133">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>18.)</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/AndreaR9Md/status/1424427087797043205" height="342" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-08-10-at-85103-am-RUOHw4.jpg" width="978" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/AndreaR9Md/status/1424427087797043205">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Melania Trump tried to drag a historian who criticized her rose garden and it backfired.

Melania Trump may no longer First Lady of the United States, but she left her mark on the White House rose garden&mdash;by decimating it.On the year anniversary of Melania&#39;s heavily-criticized redesign of the garden, NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss took to Twitter to remind people of the damage.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&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 7, 2021 &quot;Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim result&mdash;decades of American history made to disappear,&quot; he tweeted.Melania Trump, who apparently has both an &quot;office&quot; and a Twitter account (congrats!), responded to the criticism by calling Beschloss a fraud and a liar..@BeschlossDC has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy. The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy &amp; colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable &amp; he should never be trusted as a professional historian. https://t.co/LU243SANF1 pic.twitter.com/PuVOSjxx5w&mdash; Office of Melania Trump (@OfficeofMelania) August 8, 2021 &quot;.@BeschlossDC has proven his ignorance by showing a picture of the Rose Garden in its infancy,&quot; she/her office tweeted. &quot;The Rose Garden is graced with a healthy &amp; colorful blossoming of roses. His misleading information is dishonorable &amp; he should never be trusted as a professional historian.&quot;As far as we know, this is Melania&#39;s first attempt to drag someone on Twitter (normally she claps back at the haters on a different platform: her jacket). And maybe, like gardening, Twitter clap-backs just aren&#39;t her thing.People quickly pointed out all the problems with the former First Lady calling Beschloss a fraud. They had a lot to work with.Here&#39;s how Twitter responded to Melania&#39;s attempt to shut down a White House historian:1.)  Twitter2.)  Twitter3.)  Twitter4.)Melania&#39;s shot cherry-picks a vantage point from behind a tree that&#39;s not part of the side garden.Why?Because in a false equivalence, its &quot;borrowed&quot; foliage appears to substitute for the rows of cherry trees that were destroyed, and inflates the ratio of plants to structures. pic.twitter.com/8wY2UY8jxL&mdash; Office of Monty Boa (@MontyBoa99) August 8, 2021 5.)You killed paradise &amp; put up a purslane lot pic.twitter.com/38hHHSQJz8&mdash; jessie (@JessieOnTheEdge) August 8, 2021 6.)  Twitter7.)  Twitter8.)You have an “office”…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAIs it a mock up of @MichelleObama’s real office where she does real things? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/INajAZ3iY3&mdash; Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 8, 2021 9.)So the person who wore this when visiting ‘a detention facility in Texas for immigrant children who had been separated from their parents at the border’ (@TheWrap) cares about a historian’s opinion of a ROSE GARDEN?? 😑 pic.twitter.com/2fctn8WBgQ&mdash; Fozzie 🐼 🧸 🐨 🐻 (@FozzieBear88) August 8, 2021 10.)No matter what you say, you still took a beautiful, colorful, historic garden with graceful cherry trees &amp; you destroyed its charm and dignity. It is now appears to be a bland, tasteless, overcrowded, chaotic weed patch void of any class. pic.twitter.com/e7wIdqYA6l&mdash; G-Barb ☮ (@wilycyotee) August 9, 2021 11.)  Twitter12.)  Twitter13.)She turned Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden into a mini Gorky Park. pic.twitter.com/ycyOseO3Jw&mdash; scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) August 8, 2021 14.)Looks like Gorky Park. Stealing someone else’s idea. Again. Right Meredith McIver? pic.twitter.com/lG0SXrXSsV&mdash; slappysquirrel (@slappysquirrel) August 8, 2021 15.)Your pic is a closeup. If u zoom in on his, it shows the exact same thing. Sadly, you ripped out the colorful beauty (and years of growth) that the iconic Jackie O helped to design. Sad. pic.twitter.com/dQRVK7pWnX&mdash; bethanne (@mctabbykat) August 8, 2021 16.)Two Atrocities: 1) Removing the historic trees. 2) Doing so to get this teevee shot so they could whore out the WH as a political prop for the RNC convention. pic.twitter.com/PY7isI7CEF&mdash; scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) August 8, 2021 17.)  Twitter18.)  Twitter

Melania Trump may no longer First Lady of the United States, but she left her mark on the White House rose garden&mdash;by decimating it.  On the year anniversary of Melania&#39;s heavily-criticized redesign of the garden, NBC News...