Americans on Trump's damage to Reflecting Pool:
"What a waste... I just can't believe that we are spending our money this way when there's so many higher priorities—healthcare, childcare, closing the budget deficit. There's a million places we could spend this money."
The Reflecting Pool arrests by Park Police should terrify everyone. The federal government is fabricating accusations out of thin air simply to protect one man from his own embarrassing failure.
There is no sabotage. This is insane.
President Donald Trump claimed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was intentionally vandalized and said law enforcement is actively investigating, as the administration has scrambled to fix the pool's recent deterioration just days after Trump's nearly $15 million renovation. https://t.co/xjYJWrFjXe
New concerns are emerging about President Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes since the attack in 2021.
It comes as continuing efforts by Trump and his allies to recast the events of that day have reignited debate over accountability and the rule of law.
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This is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the reflecting pool. He has 2 prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws.
Animals should not be used for radical transgender experiments.
This is not science. This is ideological cruelty paid for by the American taxpayers.
Our TRANS MICE Act ends it. No federal funds may be used to conduct, support, or fund research aimed at altering an animal's biological sex.
No hormones. No surgeries. No taxpayer dollars spent mutilating animals in the name of transgender ideology.
This legislation brings accountability, ends taxpayer-funded cruelty, and ensures science serves the public, not ideology.
When even Fox News is saying this Iran deal “makes no sense,” maybe it is time to stop pretending this is strength.
Trump started a crisis, drove up costs, backed himself into a corner, and now wants a parade before anyone even knows if the mess is contained.
That is not leadership.
Leadership Matters!
It looks like the Reflecting Pool's paint is already peeling off and floating to the surface.
"It'll last for 50 to 100 years before you have to do anything with it," Trump said of a then-newly "renovated" Reflecting Pool on June 3 in the Oval Office.
Trump wanted to paint the monument what he called "American flag blue," in a project that mysteriously went from costing under $2M to nearly $15M after he handed a no-bid contract to a contractor pal with no experience maintaining important historical landmarks.
Within a day, the "renovated" reflecting pool had begun developing algae blooms and turned a sickly green color — and Interior Department workers have been dumping gallons of hydrogen peroxide into it in a frantic attempt to reduce the algae.
Video shows what appears to be large paint chips floating to the surface, an unsurprising result given how this important site was mishandled and turned into a tacky vanity project.
It's hard not to see the Reflecting Pool as reflecting the current rot and corruption in DC, literally disintegrating under a the weight of backroom deals, dangerous incompetence, and a broad disregard for our most sacred monuments.
Do not get complacent when the midterms roll around — our institutions, treasured memorials, and democracy are literally on the line.
The amount of cognitive dissonance required to hear Republicans talk about needing to end a 47 year war against Iran and now argue in support of Iran's right to defend itself is more than a normal human brain can bear. Just completely shameless.
>Give $14M no-bid contract to your friend to paint the pool blue
>Pool turns green anyway because algae grows in warm stagnant water
>Pour hydrogen peroxide into the pool to kill the algae
>The hydrogen peroxide peels off the blue paint