For Trump, the flagpole is more than just a flagpole: it is a dream deferred.

Trump showed one of them to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House. One of them asked him how long he has dreamed of having one.

'I've had it for a long time. In the first term I had it but you know you guys were after me … I was the hunted, and now I'm the hunter. There's a big difference,' Trump said.

He compared the quality of the pole to the flagpoles at his Florida clubs Doral and Mar-a-Lago, even vouching for the sand around the nine-foot hole that is meant to secure it.

'It goes nine feet down. There's nothing in there, just the tube goes nine feet down.'

'And when they fill it with sand – absolutely pure sand,' Trump said.

'The White House opened about 1800, little before that,' Trump said outside the historic building.

'I've always said why doesn't it have a flagpole from the grass – they call it a flagpole from the grass.'

One thing is for certain: the flagpoles Trump is having installed are big. He said they were 'about 100 feet,' although White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave the more exact figure of 88-feet.

'This is about the largest you'll ever see, and it's tapered. It's a quality that you guys rarely get to even put up,' Trump said.

'We have one going there, identical,' the president said, referencing another flagpole being installed on the North Lawn.

'So we'll have one on this side of the building. We'll have one on that side of the building, properly placed. In this case, we had a lot of choices, putting it on that hill, putting it different places. It's such a beautiful pole, we thought we'd put it near.'

'I mean, it always looks best when it's near. Doral n– I put it right near. Have a similar pole. And these are the best poles anywhere in the country, in the world, actually, they're tapered. They have the nice top.'

Trump described it as a major improvement over existing flagpoles, or the flag that flies atop the historic Georgian executive mansion. 

'There's a little flagpole that's like 15 feet high – little tiny flag up top. This is the real deal. This is the best you can get. Nothing like this. You know most of them are 20 feet, 25 feet, this is close to 100 feet. And I think it's a great location. You know you put it out there, people don't appreciate it,' the former real estate developer said.