Every Trump debacle follows the same 13 steps. The reflecting pool fiasco is just one of the lower stakes versions of it.
1. Devise unnecessary spectacle
2. Disregard expertise
3. Bypass normal procedures
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post)
5. Spend way more than estimated
6. Ignore the haters
7. Realize it is not going well
8. Bypass normal procedures once again
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage
10. Redeclare victory
11. More blaming
12. Losing interest
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing
It was an honor to welcome former Washington Governor @JayInslee, MD-08’s own @CCAN and climate leaders to Washington where they delivered a petition demanding no immunity for Big Oil and its long-running coverup of the scientific evidence for climate change. I’m with them all the way. No one is above the law, not even the Carbon Kings or the King of Emoluments.
MAGA will believe the Reflecting pool was vandalized with no video proof but deny an insurrection happened when it was on live television. These people are cult fanatics.
Trump's reversals on Iran are so extreme, the outcomes so ludicrous, that if it were a TV show, no sensible screenwriter would attempt to sell any of this as a coherent story. But it's a lot more dangerous than fiction.
https://t.co/yWsQcFnKB1
The only acceptable end to this war is Russia's defeat. It's in our deep strategic interest to give Ukraine the support they need to win this war.
https://t.co/Er33cVsSLK
The Reflecting Pool used to reflect the grandeur of the Washington Monument, the solemnity of our war memorials, and the leadership of Lincoln, seated at his memorial, onto the grounds of our nation’s capital.
Now, appropriately, all that can be seen in its reflection is the toxic filth and decay of the Trump administration.