Donald Trump furiously blamed “vandals” for the growing mess that has overtaken his project to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday.
At an unrelated White House event, a reporter asked Trump about the ongoing state of the pool.
The structure, which is the length of multiple city blocks, has been under renovation for weeks after Trump decided to drain the pool and had the surface spray-painted with an aqua blue coating used in swimming pools.
Photos and videos over the past week have shown chunks of that coating separating and floating up to the surface amid a swamp-green mess of algae that National Parks Service employees are desperately battling.
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