Donald Trump might be tight-lipped when it comes to talking about his former friend Jeffrey Epstein, but get him talking about literally anything else and it seems he’s capable of talking forever. Case in point, the president recently went on a bizarre rant about grass as he claimed to be an expert on the subject.
To clarify, we’re talking about the kind of grass that grows in parks. Trump mentioned the issue while making an appearance at the Kennedy Center, where he promised to spruce up the green areas around Washington D.C. Apparently, this is something that needs immediate attention as he claimed we need to “re-do the grass” as the current grass is looking “all tired [and] exhausted.”
Trump: You know, grass has a lifetime like people have a lifetime, and the lifetime of this grass has long been gone. When you look at the parks where the grass is all tired, exhausted. We're going to redo the grass with the finest grasses. I know a lot about grass pic.twitter.com/oiIFq8OaWY
— FactPost (@factpostnews) August 13, 2025
It’s a strange thing to fixate on but just shows how messed up the president’s priorities are and how much Trump overestimates his own intelligence. He claims to be knowledgeable on grass because he owns lots of golf courses although it’s hard to imagine Trump really being involved in laying the grass on his courses, or taking an interest in the matter whatsoever.
What is Donald Trump even talking about?
As you’d expect the rant raised many eyebrows as people were left scratching their heads over the peculiar tangent. First of all, the statement “grass has a lifetime like people have a lifetime” does not sound like something someone who’s mentally sound would say. Second of all, grass is pretty low-maintenance, it doesn’t typically just die of its own accord unless there has been a drought or the soil quality is low. Trump is just making up facts, but then again, that’s normal for him.
He’s not fooling anyone. Even his most loyal followers have to admit he’s clearly talking nonsense. He likes to act like he’s smart but his speech just sounds like a toddler babbling about nothing of interest. In fact, his rant has many questioning whether the president has dementia. It’s not the first time he’s made statements of such bizarre nature or behaved in such a peculiar way before.
This is not the most important issue
While the Kennedy Center and areas around Washington could probably do with some renovations, there are other matters that need addressing beforehand. On X, one individual wrote, “Trump will literally talk about grass but not talk about Epstein files.” The president has been dodging all talk of the New York financier after failing to deliver the client list he promised. Another asked, “didn’t he just pave over the most famous lawn in America?”
Trump upset more than a few people earlier this year when he made the controversial decision to pave over the White House Rose Garden, so it seems rather hypocritical that he should now be preaching about making the grass around the capital look greener.
