Hey, maybe it can double as a mini-UFC fighting cage.On Monday night, construction crews could be seen working on a project — which officials blocked from view with a large fence — on the White House’s South Lawn, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.An overhead view of the “lush” White House South Lawn on June 28. Al Drago via Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump is reportedly building a helipad, though the project has not yet been confirmed or announced to the public. The Post cited three sources who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to discuss the mysterious project publicly.HuffPost reached out to the White House for comment, but did not receive an immediate response.President Donald Trump walks towards Marine One after he spoke to members of the media prior to a South Lawn departure from the White House on May 8, 2026 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong via Getty ImagesThe helipad is being installed because the new generation of presidential helicopter — the VH-92A Patriot — has an exhaust system that would likely scorch the grass, the Post reports. The outlet also notes that any helicopter transporting the president is referred to as “Marine One.”Lockheed Martin, which owns the manufacturer of the new line of choppers, has spent years trying to develop a solution to the grass-charring issue to no avail — and will donate $5 million to help cover the cost of the helipad, according to a company official familiar with the project.The Post noted that other administrations have considered installing a permanent helipad on the White House grounds, but decided against it “for several reasons, including that it would alter an iconic image — the U.S. president boarding a helicopter on the White House’s grassy lawn — that has persisted across administrations for nearly seven decades.”Or, in short, Trump, unlike previous presidents, doesn’t mind paving over the grass. Former first lady Michelle Obama, former President Barack Obama, and their oldest daughter Malia Obama walk across the South Lawn before boarding Marine One at the White House August 9, 2014, in Washington, D.C.Chip Somodevilla via Getty ImagesThe helipad is only the latest installment in Trump’s ongoing “Extreme Makeover” of the White House, in which the people’s house is slowly beginning to resemble Trump’s favorite house in Florida — his country club, Mar-a-Lago.Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, he’s added oodles of gaudy gold fixtures all over the Oval Office, a row of presidential portraits to the previously blank walls of the historic West Colonnade to make his “Presidential Walk of Fame,” paved over the Rose Garden, installed a UFC fighting cage on the South Lawn for his 80th birthday bash and managed to turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a toxic-sludge shade of green. Construction of the new White House ballroom continues on June 28, 2026 in Washington, DC.Al Drago via Getty ImagesMost astonishingly, he also tore down the entire East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom.Here’s hoping he doesn’t adorn the helipad with his own name — or we’ll have to get the Kennedy Center involved to remove it.
Trump Reportedly Adding Another Tweak To White House Lawn — And He’s Doing It In Secret
The construction project is being blocked off by a large fence, The Washington Post reports.







