Overview

• In a Truth Social post, the president said he discovered a more than 25-yard, “deep and nasty” mark on the newly installed limestone.
• He shared a 40-second surveillance clip showing workers moving landscaping on a broken, tilting steel cart that he says scraped the surface.
• Trump said he will replace the damaged stone, bill the contractor, and bar the firm from future White House work.
• Coverage notes the video does not clearly show where the alleged gash is or its extent, and the White House did not immediately respond to questions.
• The disclosure comes after a summer project described by officials as a restoration that replaced the Rose Garden’s central lawn with stone pavers.