On Saturday, Melania Trump unveiled the new design of the White House Rose Garden, tweeting with a photo: "Excited to honor history and celebrate the future in our beautiful @WhiteHouse Rose Garden tonight. Thank you to all who helped renew this iconic and truly gorgeous space."

As soon as people on Twitter saw the image, they were quick to share their opinions. Some criticized the aesthetics of the new design as "cold and empty," while others pointed to the First Lady's prioritization of the gardens during a global pandemic that killed thousands of Americans and pushed the global death toll (opens in new tab) past 800,000 this weekend.

The First Lady is scheduled to deliver her speech to the Republican National Convention (RNC) from the White House Rose Garden. Some on Twitter imagined the scene as bleak:

Others were concerned about the trees in the garden.

For those who need some background on why so many people are referring to the Kennedys in these tweets, here's a bit of history from the White House Historical Association (opens in new tab) and Rachel Lambert Mellon, this American designer who died in 2014, wrote that President Kennedy commissioned her to redesign the Rose Garden so that it would be "as impressive as the gardens he had seen in his official residence in Europe.

"Construction of this garden began in the spring of 1962 and was completed later that year. It was truly President Kennedy's garden," Lambert Mellen wrote in his long retelling of the garden's story. His interest in the growth and well-being of this garden was endless. Often in the late afternoon, when he was alone in the garden replanting and pruning, he would find his door open. He was working at his desk. I noticed and was moved by the serious stillness of the scene. According to many on Twitter, if President Kennedy is here to ask this question in 2020, this seems like an update on President Kennedy.