Oh, that'd be great. [Laughter] Um, as long as you take questions.
On that, maybe we'll do that.
I don't know if you could fit all of it, but, uh, where did he get the, uh -- what was the thinking behind the choice of the yellow umbrellas? A lot of people say that they look similar to that of Mar-a-Lago.
Yeah, I mean, they are literally the umbrellas.
Okay.
So --
That makes --
[Crosstalk]
From there, or just --
Same -- same vendor.
Okay. Did the first lady --
[Crosstalk]
How how involved was the first lady with the overall look of the new Rose Garden?
Well, she redesigned the --
Right. She did the roses before.
-- which have remained untouched.
Okay. And she's cool with the, uh, overall patio?
I believe so, yeah. Okay.
[Background music]
Yeah.
It's still a garden.
It is. The roses are still here.
Okay. How was he -- happy with how it all looks, Karoline?
He loves it. Clearly.
Yeah, right.
And it was done relatively quickly. As you guys know. I mean, they started this 3 or 4 weeks ago.
So I saw some sheets that looked like quartz or marble.
Yeah, those are for the floor inside.
Oh that --
-- inside the ballroom area. [Inaudible]. Yeah. From like, actually that floor -- all that new -- all flooring up there. It was cracked. Stuff had to get refurbished.
Yeah.
Usually this time of year, as you know, the, uh, this is really when capital projects are --
This is normally when the president goes on vacation, but not this president.
Yeah, we were just talking about that. Does he plan to take a vacation this month --
Nope
-- or any weekends in Bedminster?
There were discussions about, um, him working from Bedminster for a couple of weeks --
Okay.
-- and he decided against it.
Okay.
He just [Inaudible] -- yeah, he did.
That's why we were speaking --
Yeah.
And [Inaudible] expect that he would go to be ready to jump in, or do you think --
In, for the --
For the bilat, or --
You know, it's - it's hard to just. I think he wants to see how the bilat goes. Um, the expectation of the [Inaudible] I mean, in Alaska, he was saying if that went really well, maybe we would have just called Zelenskyy and --
Yeah
-- [Inaudible] Alaska for him, which didn't come to fruition. But, um -- so I think at this point anything's possible.
Why do you think he chose to do so much diplomacy now, rather than wait 'til all the leaders were in town for the UN General Assembly in --
He --
-- in just three weeks?
-- is a man on a mission.
Okay.
He wants to move, get things done quickly.
So --
Three weeks is a long time with stuff like this.
Yeah.
I mean, people are getting killed every day, and --
So obviously --
-- when -- you gotta strike when the iron is hot. So --
Obviously he wants a deal today, or a bilat meeting announced today.
As soon as possible.
What are we thinking, like weeks instead of months or --
[Karoline Leavitt is pulled into a side conversation.]
Oh, okay.
[Inaudible] when specifically the day is when, you know, when --
The tech teams are working on it now. [Inaudible] Marco. And then right before my briefing -- [Inaudible]
Uh, can we walk around in there or --
Um --
Just --
Yeah. You want to just take them for a quick lap around in there?
Yeah.
Thank you.
[Music; Laughter]
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