‘Are You… Are You Paving Over the Grass Here?’ Laura Ingraham Surprised by Trump’s Rose Garden Redesign

President Donald Trump commissioned an overhaul of the Rose Garden in a redesign that seemed to take Laura Ingraham by surprise during a tour of the White House.

Ingraham spoke with the president at the White House this week for a Fox News interview that aired on Tuesday and Wednesday. After their sit-down, Trump gave the host a tour of the White House.

Last month, The New York Times reported that Trump was eyeing a makeover of the famous Rose Garden, indicating that he may pave over parts of it “to resemble a patio like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago.”

As Trump gave Ingraham the tour, the two walked outside into the Rose Garden.

“Are you… are you paving over the grass here?” she asked.

“What was happening is, you’re supposed to have events,” Trump replied. “Every event you have, it’s soaking wet. It’s soaking wet. And people can’t– and the women with the high heels, it’s just too much.”

“That’s where you did the Kavanaugh thing and Amy Coney Barrett,” Ingraham said, noting ceremonies for two of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees.

“The grass just, it doesn’t work,” Trump added. “And we have a gorgeous stone and everything else. But you know, we use it for press conferences and it doesn’t work because the people fall into the, you know, into the wet, the soaking wet [inaudible].”

“The roses stay? The grass goes?” Ingraham followed up.

“The roses stay,” the president replied. “No, it’s a rose garden. All of this stays. Just the center section. I think it’s gonna be beautiful. I think it’s gonna be more beautiful.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Trump alleged that the E.U. has “raped and pillaged” the U.S. and said he is selling citizenship to wealthy foreigners because he is “America first.”

Watch above via Fox News.