Overview

• Workers began digging for the two poles at 7:30 a.m. on June 18, and the flags were hoisted around 11 a.m. Eastern Time.
• Each nearly 100-foot-tall pole is rust-proof, tapered and fitted with internal rope mechanisms, features Trump hailed as “magnificent.”
• Trump paid for the flagpoles out of pocket and personally supervised their installation, delivering on his April promise of a presidential gift.
• Before this project, only a single roof-mounted flagpole flew the US flag—and since 2019 the POW/MIA flag—over the White House.
• The new flagpoles join planned additions including custom artwork, gold-toned Oval Office accents and possible Rose Garden renovations.