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Donald Trump said the plan to install a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House was his idea and shared new details on what it would look like and its cost while bragging about all the helipads he\u2019s had over the years.<\/p>\n

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Trump, 80, was appearing at an event on Monday inside the Oval Office when he was asked about the plans to install a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House.<\/p>\n

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Trump confirmed construction for the $5 to $6 million project was underway. He said it would have the presidential seal in granite, or, as he put it, the \u201cseal of the White House,\u201d while rambling about the need for a helipad and his ownership of many helicopters over the years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For decades, presidents have taken Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, but the U.S. has a fleet of new VH-92A Patriot helicopters to transport the president, ordered under Trump.<\/p>\n

The helicopters manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft have exhaust vents facing downward, which burn up the grass, which is an issue for landing on the White House lawn. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re about two and a half times more powerful than the old ones, and when you land on the grass, it\u2019s not that the grass gets discolored, it gets ripped out, ripped out, and it was all over,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey landed it once, and nobody planned for this. This was a little bit of a planning mistake. So they landed the helicopter, and half of the grass was sitting in front of the Oval Office front door.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initial solution was to simply keep using the old helicopters just for landing at the White House, but Trump\u2019s solution is to add another construction project to accommodate the fleet, calling the previous plan expensive. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said to the people, have you ever thought\u2014these are generals, Air Force generals that are brilliant\u2014and you know, you get used to a certain thing,\u201c Trump said. \u201dThey\u2019d bring out the metal, but this was, now the metal didn\u2019t work because the power of these helicopters is so great it ripped up the grass, right, so I said, \u2018Has anybody ever thought of a helipad?\u2019 Because I build them, and they go quickly, and it solves all of the problems.”<\/p>\n

Trump bragged that he owns three Sikorsky helicopters because they have been \u201cgreat\u201d for his business. <\/p>\n

\u201cI always was lucky. I always got helipads. Other people don\u2019t, very hard to get,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThe hardest thing to get is a helipad. Okay, there\u2019s no harder zoning thing to get is a helipad, and I had, like, seven of them at different places, so I could go around by helicopter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said that when he pitched the idea of installing a helipad to the generals, they thought it was a \u201cgood idea.\u201d He compared suggesting a helipad to the invention of a paperclip, such a simple invention that made a lot of money.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo now we\u2019re building a helipad, beautiful helipad, and it\u2019s got the seal of the White House on it in granite, in carved granite. It\u2019s really a beautiful thing,\u201d Trump declared. <\/p>\n

The president went on to claim that Sikorsky was paying for the construction project \u201cbecause they didn\u2019t tell us how powerful these helicopters were, and they felt a little bit guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump has previously made claims about the costs and how his construction projects at the White House were being funded. He said the ballroom was being entirely funded by private donors, only for it to later be revealed that the venture would involve roughly $300 million in taxpayer dollars, as the project would be far more expensive than previously estimated when Trump first announced it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. They felt a little guilty, and they are paying for the cost of it,\u201d Trump said of the helipad construction. It\u2019s about $5 or $6 million. They\u2019re paying the full cost, and when I heard they were paying the cost, I went out and said, \u2018Let\u2019s do a beauty.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

The president went on to describe the plans for the helipad in detail. It comes after Trump previously ripped out the grass in the Rose Garden to install a patio with Mar-a-Lago-style outdoor seating and umbrellas to host events last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s not just do a piece of concrete and paint it white,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThis one is a beauty. It\u2019s got the seal of the White House. It\u2019s beautiful- the eagle and it\u2019s carved out of granite\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump declared it was being done by \u201csome of the most talented people you\u2019ll ever meet.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to briefly note that he had previously replaced a walkway at the White House with granite. That one was with non-slip pavers along the West Wing Colonnade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s got a 1 million-plus lifetime,\u201d Trump claimed. \u201cIt\u2019s the strongest stone there is, and that\u2019s being used out there, and it\u2019s going to be, I think, really beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump suggested that when it wasn\u2019t being used for a helipad, it could also be used for other events, including news conferences. Trump has often claimed he needed to replace the grass in the Rose Garden because people could not walk on it when the president held news conferences. <\/p>\n

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