Since the beginning of last month, construction activity has increased in the presidential residence with the start of the project for a heliport in the so-called south garden.
During an event held in the Oval Office, it was announced that the work, costing nearly $6 million dollars, would be financed by Sikorsky Aircraft, the manufacturer of the Marine One helicopter.
"Now we are building a heliport, a beautiful heliport, and it has the seal of the White House, engraved in granite, carved in granite. It is something really beautiful. They are paying the full cost," said the nation's president.
The US Navy awarded Sikorsky Aircraft a $1.24 billion contract to replace the fleet of Marine One helicopters and perhaps this is where the fact that it has chosen to assume the full cost of the proposed heliport derives.
Confident that his project idea was well grounded by the contractors in charge and, due to his busy schedule of activities, Trump had not had time to monitor the progress of the project, but recently when doing so he realized that it did not meet his standards and asked to modify it almost completely.
Presumably, the New York magnate's requirement is to add a landing platform at the same level as the horizon, a situation that involves first trying to level the sloping terrain of the South Lawn.
To comply with this requirement, it is mandatory to start the work again from scratch and with additional costs that, until now, it is unknown who must pay.
In this way, the takeoff of Marine One in which Trump usually travels will continue to take place on the traditional grass of the garden, which the president dislikes because the intense exhaust gases of the helicopter damage it.
