Trump pat herself on the back for "respecting tradition" in the renovation, which tore up the Kennedy-era landscape

Melania Trump promised to discuss her decision to renovate the Rose Garden in a new promotional ad released on Friday for her upcoming memoir.

Among the controversies during Donald Trump's administration was the destruction of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy's rose garden just outside the Oval Office. Now Melania Trump is promoting her new book with a video bragging about removing it.

Melania Trump is promoting her upcoming book by bragging about her controversial “evisceration” of the most iconic garden in America.The former first lady was widely criticized for ripping up the White House Rose Garden designed by Jackie Kennedy in its last major renovation in the early 1960s.

The famous White House Rose Garden was designed in the 1960s under the supervision of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis