Trump, 80, Gives Bizarre Update on Reflecting Pool
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President Donald Trump has provided a strange description of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as he continues to defend his failed renovation plan.
Trump, 80, grumbled Monday about the troubled National Mall site and its supposed knife-wielding vandals, whose existence he has not been able to prove.
In fact, internal National Park Service records https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/trump-reflecting-pool-green-peeling.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur" rel="" target="_blank" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/trump-reflecting-pool-green-peeling.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur">show that damage to the pool was unrelated to the “American flag blue” coating the president wanted applied, and experts https://www.thedailybeast.com/drained-reflecting-pool-reveals-reality-of-trumps-unhinged-claims/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/drained-reflecting-pool-reveals-reality-of-trumps-unhinged-claims/">have invalidated the vandal theory.
Now, the pool is once more without water, as federal employees inspect its issues.
During his speech in Michigan, Trump, after https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-humiliated-as-he-is-heckled-about-epstein-friendship/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-humiliated-as-he-is-heckled-about-epstein-friendship/">being heckled about Jeffrey Epstein, talked about the immovable, inanimate object as if it were a living thing, saying it was “in the hospital.”
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