Deb

Whether this moment is happy or not depends on you. It's you that makes the moment happy. It's not the moment that makes you happy. - TNH

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

This is sexist, isn't it ??

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

I say this with no ill will and *some* animosity. I am a Democrat. I earned the nomination to be the person facing the Republican incumbent in Texas House District 132.

Over the last 18 months, I’ve built my own team using my OWN resources and collectively we have knocked on over 40,000 doors in that time.

Unless something crazy happens in the next 6 days, I will file a TEC report that shows that my campaign has ~$2,500 COH.

So when you say “Don't use our resources.” Literally what resources?

“Don't rely on our volunteers.” I’m sorry, WHOSE volunteers? Because you do not own volunteers.

“Don't use our infrastructure.” WHAT INFRASTRUCTURE? Because I am out here on an island in west Harris County and I may not even be able to afford yard signs ffs.

And last but not least: “Don't ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.”

Heard.

Loud and clear.

I won’t ask for anything.

I started this campaign knowing that this was a long shot. I had no money, no political experience or connections, and just a burning desire to just give something BETTER to my hometown than what they have now. And every part of my being is committed to achieving that goal.

And Jamie, I promise that I won’t use “your” resources to win.

God I hate politics.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: Trump overpaid on a no-bid contract to a pool guy who was a total amateur and messed up the Reflecting Pool, and now Trump’s fragile ego has him trying to cover this up by saying someone did a 350-foot gash in the pool. This pool has 24/7 cameras on it. So we’re in a place where the president is just lying because he can’t handle that he totally screwed up the Reflecting Pool.

[Covie @covie_93]

All this because an 80yo man cant admit that he screwed up.

[Old Man Lefty @OldManLefty1]

The White House looks like shit.. The East Wing has been bulldozed. The lawns looks like they were used for a Demolition Derby. The Kennedy Center is under a tarp. The Reflection Pond is disgusting and fenced off. Trump has turned the Capitol into a shithole.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

What about driving in it?

[Deb @FiveMeadows]

@CommunityNotes isn’t Medicare a federal program?

[Young Kim @RepYoungKim]

No surprises here. California leads the nation in Medicare fraud.

Nearly 800 of 1,000 Medicare payment suspensions came from CA.

@GavinNewsom, you’ve got some explaining to do!

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

@RepYoungKim @GavinNewsom Medicare is a federal program, we’d have thought a Congresswoman would have known that.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Pretty good example of how Trump/WH lies (this time on the reflecting pool) are trotted out on Fox with no pushback. Many Fox viewers will believe the pool has been vandalized even though Trump and the WH have provided zero evidence of this.

[Deb @FiveMeadows]

Cc: @usatoday

[Ed O'Keefe @edokeefe]

We checked again and still no sign of a 350-foot gash as President Trump alleges. Our @CBSMornings 🌞 report:

[Deb @FiveMeadows]

The LEFT’S obsession? Puhlease.

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Opinion: Democrats are furious over algae and peeling paint at the Reflecting Pool. Meanwhile, bigger taxpayer-funded scandals are getting almost no attention. https://t.co/wBGyErxisk

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I love how petty this is.
Iran knows how jealous trump is of Obama.

And the fact that everyone showered Obama's Preside3ntial Library opening with love and respect had to drive trump NUTS. 🤣🤣🤣

Chef's kiss.🤌

[Deb @FiveMeadows]

Karolyin is back, unfortunately.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Deb @FiveMeadows]

Um…

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump's AG Todd Blanche: Fraudsters can no longer rip off American taxpayers.

[Deb @FiveMeadows]

@abcnews @Lawrence @kaitlancollins @JessicaTarlov @tedlieu @RepThomasMassie

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Hey MAGA, do you have answers??

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

You think leftists are mad? Does that person in a frog suit seem mad? It’s frickin’ hilarious.

It’s really funny that trump was maniacally obsessed with the Reflecting Pool and then it blew up in his face because his pool guy sucks and he overpaid on a no bid contract.

Cheers!