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President Donald Trump has complained repeatedly about leaks in the White House, but it looks like he also has a problem with bugs.
And mice.
A list of White House work orders from the past two years ― including the final year of the Obama administration ― obtained by NBC Washington reveals a vermin problem at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., including mice in the Situation Room.
They are old buildings, former GSA Inspector General Brian Miller told the station. Any of us who have old houses know old houses need a lot of work.
Other work orders include four reports of cockroach infestations, mice in the White House Navy Mess food service area, among other places, and ants in the chief of staffs office.
I removed a lot by killing them, the notes on that latter work order read.
Other orders are for routine repairs, painting, unclogging toilets and moving around furniture.
In one instance, then-press secretary Sean Spicer wanted a safe removed and a skinny 3-4 foot banquet table added in its place. He also asked for a coin display case for his challenge coins.
But its the insects and mice that are getting all the attention.
There are multiple requests for bug lights, including one for the office of White House aide Kellyanne Conway and a work order to exterminate cockroaches in the dining room.
Vermin have been an ongoing problem at the White House for decades.
For two or three months now Ive been telling them to get rid of the mice, President Jimmy Carter wrote in a 1977 diary entry, according to MSNBC. They still seem to be growing in numbers, and I am determined either to fire somebody or get the mice cleared out ― or both.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-bugs-mice_us_5a20d02be4b03c44072c6d8b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)JI7
(89,281 posts)they should do a huge renovation but only after he leaves.
pansypoo53219
(21,004 posts)A few good mousers will take care of the rodent problem, at least.
DinahMoeHum
(21,819 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)Richard D
(8,803 posts). . with the fact that they all thrive on cheetos.
mnmoderatedem
(3,732 posts)since January 21st 2017.
MyOwnPeace
(16,942 posts)mention all of the rats they bring in every time there's a Cabinet Meeting?
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,788 posts)Just before his tweet alarm goes off covered with mice crawling over his biggest and best body eating him and the feeding the scraps to their cockroach buddies.
I now have a new fantasy to keep me a little sane
FailureToCommunicate
(14,027 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,381 posts)one would think they'd address these problems. Things like new sill plates, pressure treated, wrapped in aluminum for an insect barrier.