Trump to install two 100-foot-tall flagpoles on White House grounds to fly US flags

President Donald Trump says he will have two 100-foot-tall flagpoles installed on the White House grounds to fly the U.S. flag.

“They’ve needed flag poles for 200 years,” Trump said Wednesday at a White House event. “It was something I’ve often said, ‘They don’t have a flag pole.’”

The flags will be put on the White House grounds' North and South lawns. And Trump says he'll pay for them. 

"We're putting up a beautiful, almost 100-foot-tall American flag on this side, and another one on the other side – top-of-the-line, paid for by Trump," the president said.

The White House already has a flagpole on top of the roof that flies the U.S. flag.