What's going on with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? Trump blames vandals, announces arrests and vows to fix it

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

again.

President Trump said Sunday that work would begin immediately to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which turned green with algae and saw its new coat of paint peel just days after workers completed a $16 million renovation project spearheaded by the president.

Trump blamed vandalism for the new issues plaguing the Reflecting Pool, which he had pledged to make "American flag blue" ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary.

"Work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool," the president wrote on Truth Social in one of several weekend posts about the pool saga. "I just inspected it, and could only say to myself, and those gathered around me, WOW, who would do such a thing? SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE!"

Trump also alleged that someone "took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete." The location of the alleged gash was not immediately clear.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/whats-going-on-with-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-trump-blames-vandals-announces-arrests-and-vows-to-fix-it-again-180143846.html

250 feet for America's 250th birthday? We don't need to sabotage the reflecting pool to make Trump look bad.

[Johonny]

1. How could anyone do that?

I mean, it is coming up in giant flaps. A knife cut doesn't do that. How could they hope to prosecute anyone based on lies?

[regnaD kciN]

2. Also, it's safe to assume...

…that there are security cameras all over that place. Vandalism? Pictures, or it didn’t happen.

[Ocelot II]

5. Trump bragged that the wonderful blue pool coating would be so strong that it couldn't be cut with a knife.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1289045803310877

[3catwoman3]

3. It's not like the Reflecting Pool is lined with a plastic pool liner...

...that could be sliced with a knife.

What a dumb claim.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Stolen from Blue Sky...

[gab13by13]

6. They fucking used truck bed liner paint

to paint the pool, not the same surface at all.

When I painted my concrete garage floor I had to prep it with muriatic acid for the paint to stick.