Trump Is Secretly Messing With The White House's Iconic View Yet Again: Report

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.

President 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.

The 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.

The 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.

Most astonishingly, he also tore down the entire East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom.