Scott Hall

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Well, there you have it. The New York Times just reported that Trump's own handpicked contractor called bullshit on the serial lying conman's claim that "vandals," "thugs," and "sick people" were the cause of the Reflecting Pool fiasco.

In government documents dated August 14 and September 2, Atlantic Industrial Coatings admitted the blue liner peeled because the job itself was botched. The incompetent workers Trump hired didn't put down enough primer — the company called that "human oversight." Worse, the repair plan mixed two incompatible chemicals. The top layer got hotter than the layer underneath could take, blistered, and came apart.

It wasn't knives in the dark, radical left lunatics, or a conspiracy of tourists. It was a rushed, Trump-pressured, no-bid job that failed on the contractor's own paperwork. Trump knew it and lied anyway. Then to save face, the heartless piece of shit tried to jail innocent people for a screw-up his own contractor had already admitted.

[Scott Hall @hallrsc]

@AgnesNixonAMC I remember this - 🥲

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

This is election interference.

[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.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

So the ballroom is a fiasco, the reflecting pool is a fiasco, the Iran war is a fiasco—the Trump administration is a fiasco.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Scott Hall @hallrsc]

@AgnesNixonAMC Dixie and Tad!

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Donald Trump is sending the Justice Department after a woman he raped.

[Scott Hall @hallrsc]

@AgnesNixonAMC @TheDustinFitz Thanks for sharing!

[Chris Meloni @Chris_Meloni]

Pedophiles united

[Scott Hall @hallrsc]

@paisoaps Classic - How I miss them.

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

[Jen @JenResistedAGN]

Melania deserves the same respect she showed President Obama when she pushed the racist birther conspiracy.

[shelby @thetrueshelby]

This shit looks like a flea market off exit 23 with confederate belt buckles and fake ray-bans 😭

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

[Scott Hall @hallrsc]

@Variety So disappointing to hear this from him. Being a guest on the podcast tells us where you stand. So sad.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Donald Trump is a man of very low character whose whole life demonstrates it.

Robert Mueller was a man of very high character whose whole life demonstrated it.

The great division in our country is between people who understand these basic facts, and those who reject them.

From the citation accompanying the Bronze Star (with V for combat valor) that Marine Second Lieutenant Robert Mueller received for his actions in 1968, during the Vietnam War—the war Trump avoided:

“With complete disregard for his own safety, he then skillfully supervised the evacuation of casualties from the hazardous area and, on one occasion, personally led a fire team across the fire-swept area terrain to recover a mortally wounded Marine who had fallen in a position forward of the friendly lines.”

Months later, still serving our country in the war that Trump avoided, Mueller was wounded again, shot in the leg.

“I consider myself exceptionally lucky to have made it out of Vietnam,” Mueller told author Garrett Graff years later. “There were many—many—who did not. And perhaps because I did survive Vietnam, I have always felt compelled to contribute."

Robert Mueller went on to serve our country honorably in many other ways. His rock-solid integrity as a public official—and as a private citizen—will stand as an example and inspiration to all who learn about him, long after Donald Trump is gone.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I mean the reverse of this is ‘funny’ too: the party of people who didn’t want to wear masks to save lives now want to defend the wearing of masks to take lives.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Of course Fox News is not covering Jesse Jackson's memorial.

They covered Charlie Kirk's.

Just saying.