Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has been on a mission to renovate — including an overhaul of the iconic Rose Garden , where work is nearly complete.

Trump has swapped out the grass in the Rose Garden with stone, turning what had been a lawn into a patio. And it's a patio that bears a striking resemblance to a popular feature at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

By Trump's telling, getting rid of the grass was a necessity, because it got too soggy for fine footwear.

"You see the women?" Trump said in a February interview with The Spectator magazine. "The grass was wet. Their heels are going through the grass, like, four inches deep."

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