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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 06:00 AM Dec 2017

They are in good company: EWW! White House Has A Problem With Cockroaches, Ants And Mice

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 staff’s 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 it’s 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 I’ve 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

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They are in good company: EWW! White House Has A Problem With Cockroaches, Ants And Mice (Original Post) mfcorey1 Dec 2017 OP
It's a given...Trump will blame Obama. eom Frustratedlady Dec 2017 #1
Trump is probably used to it based on reports of many of his businesses JI7 Dec 2017 #2
get some cats. pansypoo53219 Dec 2017 #3
Yup Habibi Dec 2017 #4
The WH doesn't grab THAT kind of pussy, though. DinahMoeHum Dec 2017 #6
Cats are too self respecting to live with the tRumps. Maybe in 2020 (or sooner!)nt logosoco Dec 2017 #11
Must be something to do . . . Richard D Dec 2017 #5
they are the most reputable inhabitants at that address mnmoderatedem Dec 2017 #7
Did they MyOwnPeace Dec 2017 #8
The Dotard laying in bed... N_E_1 for Tennis Dec 2017 #9
Trump: "I don't know WHY this is happening here..." FailureToCommunicate Dec 2017 #10
I picture Dolt45 wandering around with a bucket of KFC and shouting at portraits... Thor_MN Dec 2017 #12
For all the money they've spent on renovations over the years bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 #13
LOL! First thought? Oh, so we're getting rid of the Repukes? n/t raven mad Dec 2017 #14

JI7

(89,281 posts)
2. Trump is probably used to it based on reports of many of his businesses
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 06:22 AM
Dec 2017

they should do a huge renovation but only after he leaves.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,788 posts)
9. The Dotard laying in bed...
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 08:43 AM
Dec 2017

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

bucolic_frolic

(43,381 posts)
13. For all the money they've spent on renovations over the years
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 09:01 AM
Dec 2017

one would think they'd address these problems. Things like new sill plates, pressure treated, wrapped in aluminum for an insect barrier.

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