Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump’s TV interviews and calls with the Ukrainian president usually started well Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Then it made an unexpected, unusual turn when he appeared on the roof of the West Wing of the White House.
Late Tuesday morning, Trump emerged through a door connected to the state’s dining room and stepped onto the West Colonnade, which walled the roof above the press briefing room and the Rose Garden. He conducted a close to 20 minutes to investigate the rooftop and the following sites: Newly paved transformation In the rose garden.
The reporter, turned over by the unlined positioning of snipers above the oval office, cried out questions from below. They called out, “Sir, why are you on the roof?”
“I’ll take a little walk,” cried Trump. “It’s good for your health.”
President Donald Trump screams to reporters as he investigates the site from the roof above the line to the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump walked with a small group, including James McClarry. New $2 million ballroom unveiled project. They moved slowly, and Trump frequently gestured, pointing to the roof and the grounds. On several occasions he wandered towards the corner closest to the press squad, waving and cupping to shout responses to yelling questions.
At one point he said he was looking at “another way to spend my money on this country.” Then near the end of his appearance on the roof, Trump was asked what he was trying to make. He said “nuclear missiles.”
Unexpected walks on the roof come as Trump appears to leave a permanent footprint in what is often referred to as “people’s homes.”
Second from the right, President Donald Trump will be looking at the site west side of Washington from the roof above the row on the west wing of the White House, with architect James McClery at the center on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
He essentially renovated his oval office with golden prosperity and additions of angels, presidential portraits and other items. I installed a giant flag pole American flag flying on the grass in the north and south. And last week, his administration announced that construction of a massive ballroom would begin in September and that Trump’s term is ready before it ends in early 2029.
While Trump appeared on the West Wing, the White House says the Ballroom will be “small, varied and now the reconstructed East Wing will be where it is currently sitting.”
President Donald Trump, along with architect James McClary, will investigate the above-roofed Washington rooftops from the rooftops above the rows on the West Wing of the White House on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
There was a time, rarely, for many years, when the president went out on the roof of the White House and even slept.
To promote renewable energy, President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels on the West Wing roof in the 1970s. The panel was removed during the Reagan administration.
In 1910, President William Howard Taft built a sleeping porch on the roof to escape the hot summer nights in Washington.
