Trump claimed the poles had been “about 100 ft” tall, though White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave the extra actual determine of 88ft.
“That is in regards to the largest you may ever see, and it is tapered. It is a high quality that you simply guys hardly ever get to even put up,” Trump stated.
“We now have one going there, similar,” the president continued, referencing one other flagpole being put in on the North Garden.
He babbled on: “So we’ll have one on this aspect of the constructing. We’ll have one on that aspect of the constructing, correctly positioned.
“On this case, we had a number of decisions, placing it on that hill, placing it completely different locations. It is such a wonderful pole, we thought we might put it close to.
“These are the very best poles anyplace within the nation, on this planet, truly, they’re tapered. They’ve the good high.”