A few days ago Elon Musk called the UK a "police state" - he may have a point: here's a person being threatened by armed soldiers for putting their hand in a pool of water. Oh, wait, that's in Trump's America. My mistake.
BREAKINGNEWS I have a friend in DC that says National Guard, National Park Employees are now threatening citizens that if they touch the water in the pool they will be arrested. That paint chips and pool lining literally floating on the pools surface.
Trump just released that the pool would have to be drained again. They literally dumped hundreds of gallons of peroxide that strips the pool surface. This administration is incompetent. 🚨
NEW: A baby duck has now died at the reflecting pool.
This image was shared with me in the past hour by someone who visited the reflecting pool. It is unclear what the cause of death is.
At a time when America faces huge income and wealth inequality, a broken healthcare system and high prices, the only “policy” the GOP has is to divide us and foster hatred and bigotry.
Recently, 2 Muslim Republicans were told to either convert or leave the Texas GOP convention.
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The hydrogen peroxide workers poured into the Reflecting Pool did kill the original algae. It also created conditions for a new strain, genus Scenedesmus, nicknamed Skinny Dead Mouse by scientists, to take over instead. The scientists Viser brought samples to said they just switched the players.
The pool is also less safe in a different way now. The 16.4 million dollar sealant is peeling up from the bottom in chunks. Tourists are collecting pieces. One person compared it to taking a chunk of the Berlin Wall.
The government has been running water safety tests for days and will not release the results. Independent scientists who applied for permits to test the water themselves have been denied. NPS put out an internal email calling this a regional and national priority and asking staff to volunteer for 12-hour emergency shifts. Two weeks from the 250th birthday of the United States.
So Trump shows the new Air Force one and the luxury of it for some reason believing Americans will love that he has such a plush plane.
He really believes we are proud of his grift
I thought .... nooooo ..... this must have happened after the draining, but before the repainting .... right? 🤔
Nope, I checked, they drove these massively heavy armoured vehicles on top of freshly painted sealant just a few days after it was applied and work was still ongoing.
It's easy to see why all of Trump's businesses failed.
James Talarico: “People are tired of this politics as professional wrestling. You got these old guys lathered up in their fake tan throwing corny nicknames at each other. Those corny nicknames they don’t lower the price of groceries, the price of gas, the cost of housing and childcare and prescription drugs”
JUST IN:🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump has threatened the Iranian officials in Switzerland that they won’t make it back to Iran if they close the Strait of Hormuz while Netanyahu bombs Lebanon, per Fox News
Trump says he spoke with Iranian officials and told them, "You close the Strait of Hormuz and you won't have a country."
He also told them, "You won't even make it back to your f*cking country."
Despite this claim Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz
The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
If DOD needs $80b to replenish stocks and pay for Trump’s unauthorized, unwise, and unsuccessful war, every cent should come out of the bloated appropriation for ICE and border patrol for Trump’s awful mass deportation project.
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Iran's negotiators have LEFT the venue in protest of Trump's threats, per Tasnim.
Trump is single-handedly destroying the entire peace process.