President Trump will tell you the grass is always greener. And he means it.The president frequently touts his knack for creating perfect lawns, bringing up grass in at least 45 public events or interviews over the past 18 months. That is at least once every 12 days.Trump noted his ongoing enthusiasm for turf as recently as Monday, telling military spouses at a White House event: "Grass is like humans. It has a life."The commander-in-chief even turned his focus to the plant during an interview with The Spectator just five weeks after his second inauguration. “You see the grass outside, right?” Trump asked. “Some people would like to leave it. But the problem is, you can’t.”President Trump has mentioned grass at least 45 times at events and in interviews during his second term (PA Wire)The origins of Trump’s love of grassTrump’s mentions of grass have already far exceeded the 26 times he brought it up during his first four-year term.However, his love for the plant goes back much further than that. “I know a lot about grass because I own a lot of golf courses,” he said while announcing the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors last August. “And, if you don’t have good grass, you’re not in business very long.”A week later, while visiting park police officers in Washington D.C., the president declared, “I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world.”Trump’s background as a real estate developer also plays a role in his love for grass, as have his attempts to remake Washington, D.C., in his own image. Grass has played a big role in Trump’s Washington D.C. makeoverMatt Koch, the lawns research fellow for gardening giant Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, met recently with the president to discuss planting new grass on the White House’s South Lawn. Trump paved over much of the grass in the White House Rose Garden (AFP/Getty)Koch proudly considers himself a “grass nerd” and came away convinced Trump is an honorary one after speaking with him in the Oval Office.“An amazing dialogue, talking grass for half an hour,” Koch said. “Going back and forth about grass.”Last September, while hosting Republican lawmakers for dinner, he pledged of green spaces around Washington D.C: “We’re gonna re-grass them with the best guys in the country.”During an event announcing the intended renaming of the Department of Defense that same month, Trump assured attendees, “I’m very good at grass.”Trump most frequently mentions grass while touting his efforts to renovate and refurbish landmarks across Washington, D.C.However, Trump has sometimes expressed frustration with the plant, telling the hosts of the All In podcast during an Oval Office tour: “Problem with the grass, you couldn’t do anything with it.”Trump often mentions grass while touting his renovations around Washington DC (Getty)Trump even mentioned grass while pardoning turkeysTrump joked about grass while pardoning two turkeys, named Waddle and Gobble, during a Thanksgiving ceremony last year. “Despite their size, Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys,” he said, noting that they had been consuming grass-fed beef. Trump even mentioned the plant while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, pointing again to his D.C. renovations. “We don't have to worry about fences anymore,” he remarked. “All of the places the grasses are cut and replaced with new grass.”Trump also said that Marine One has damaged grass surrounding the White House (AFP/Getty)Trump added, “In many cases it's all going to happen in the spring. But Washington, D.C., is beautiful again, and it's safe.”High heels played into his decision to remove much of the White House Rose Garden’s grassThe president has often claimed that women would complain to him about their high heels getting stuck in the mud in the White House Rose Garden. “The women would be lifting up their shoes, saying, ‘You’ve destroyed my shoes,'” he said last year. During the White House’s Diwali Festival of Lights event in October 2025, he recalled a state visit from the Prime Minister of India.“We had the Prime Minister of India here, and they had a lot of press, and the women were walking out with their shoes full of mud,” he said. “So we can't have that.”When hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers in July, he suggested that women in heels “would go down like quicksand.”Now, the garden has been paved over and, despite Trump’s love of the plant, contains noticeably less grass. Trump has wiped out even more grass at the White HouseTrump reduced large swaths of the South Lawn to dirt when he ordered a UFC octagon to be erected on the site to mark his 80th birthday celebrations. In the weeks that followed the huge birthday celebration, a sprawling helipad has been built in the octagon’s place.The construction has removed even more grass from the lawn. The president is also building a helipad near the White House (Getty)However, Trump has said the helipad was needed because the new, more powerful fleet of helicopters now being used as Marine One tore up the previous sod.“When you land on the grass, it’s not that the grass gets discolored - it gets ripped out,” he said in June. “Half of the grass was sitting in front of the Oval Office front door,” he said.Scotts Miracle-Gro donated $1 million in monetary and product support to the National Park Service to restore the South Lawn after the UFC fight. The company's CEO, James Hagedorn, is a Trump supporter.The president met with Koch in June to select a custom turfgrass blend of four kinds of tall fescues and four Kentucky bluegrasses. “You can tell he spends a lot of time on golf courses," Koch said. “He obviously owns courses, and he knows grass from being around it.”Koch returned to the White House last week as crews began resodding some areas of the lawn outside the helipad construction area. There are plans next spring to plant seeds from the grass blend Trump selected. Donald Trump is a keen golfer, something connected to his love of grass (PA Archive)By then, growth will be optimal, and the helipad work should be complete, making the lawn restoration easier.Trump’s love of grass is connected with his golfing habitAlso key to the president's grass fixation is his love of golf.Bert McCarty, a Clemson University professor of turfgrass science and management, said golfers appreciate differences in the courses they visit. For example, some beachside spots incorporate the ocean into their course while others use inclines in mountains. Like most golfers, Trump “likes the challenge of the course and the differences of the course to add variety," McCarty says. Referencing the home of the Masters tournament last August, Trump vowed that parks in Washington D.C. will “look like Augusta.”Most people think Augusta is “heaven,” because of its flowers and fairways, McCarty says; however, municipalities often “can’t compete” with the amount spent to achieve that look.Trump, though, went on to say that D.C. would look like another landmark: “It'll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club. That's even better.”The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.