• 11-year-old boy gets lawn-mowing gig at White House

    From Leroy N. Soetoro@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 18 03:22:30 2017
    XPost: alt.politics.nationalism.white, alt.home.lawn.garden, alt.politics.trump XPost: sac.politics, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Trump-invites-11-year-old-boy- to-mow-Rose-Garden-12200403.php

    WASHINGTON (AP) — An 11-year-old boy in khaki shorts and a red polo shirt
    got the lawn-mowing gig of a lifetime Friday when President Donald Trump
    put him to work in the Rose Garden.

    Frank Giaccio, who goes by the initials FX, was so focused on doing his
    job that he didn't even notice when Trump emerged from the White House to
    check out his work.

    FX, who lives in the Washington suburb of Falls Church, Virginia, kept
    right on pushing the mower in a long, straight row as Trump walked
    alongside him.

    When the boy finally paused, the president called him the "future of the country right here" and asked what he wants to be when he grows up. "A
    Navy seal!" Trump exclaimed. "Well, he'll make it."

    Standing with FX and his father, Trump added: "We'll bring them into the
    Oval Office. Maybe he'll be president."

    Just how did FX make it to the Rose Garden? The White House said FX had
    written to Trump to say he admires the president's business acumen and
    runs his own neighborhood lawn-care business.

    "It's probably the biggest day of my life so far," FX said afterward.

    He added that his day was "jam-packed" with media interviews, watering
    plants, mowing the lawn and visiting the Oval Office with his dad. "It was
    a lot bigger than I thought," he said.

    FX said he normally charges $8 per lawn but decided to mow the White House
    lawn free of charge.

    According to a letter that White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders
    read to reporters, the boy wrote that it would be his "honor to mow the
    White House lawn." He also enclosed a menu of his services, which include weed-whacking.

    For this job, FX donned goggles and ear plugs and pushed a mower belonging
    to the National Park Service. He got to keep the black gardening gloves he
    used as a souvenir.

    "My dad didn't think I was going to meet the president at all — I was just going to mow the Rose Garden. But the president came by and said hi," FX
    said.

    Trump later tweeted: "THANK YOU for doing a GREAT job this morning!

    @NatlParkService gives you an A+!"

    The tweet included video highlights of FX's White House visit — complete
    with a photo of him posing with his elbows on the Resolute Desk in the
    Oval Office next to Trump.

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