The White House lawn. Easter 1921 on the first picture, 1929 on…

The White House lawn. Easter 1921 on the first picture, 1929 on the second.

The famed White House Easter Egg roll..

The annual White House Easter Egg Roll goes back a very long time. The playful game, which involves pushing an egg through the grass with a spoon, officially started on the White House grounds in 1878 when President Hayes moved the event from the Capitol and hosted all of Washington for the occasion. 

Through the years, there were different variations on the original activity like egg croquet and egg picking. In fact, the actual egg race wasn’t instituted until the Nixon administration in 1974.

 Since then, it’s become the largest annual public White House event of the year.  Regardless of party affiliation, presidents have it. We assume Trump would still?