‘Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School,’ Trump claimed, in an apparent jab at Jeanine Pirro

President Trump has blamed the appearance of swathes of dead grass at the National Mall on “vandals.”​

On Truth Social, Trump shared an aerial image of the grass at the National Mall which appeared to have large, dead patches in the same area that he held his July 4 celebration.​

“Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” Trump wrote on Sunday night. “Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School!”​

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 days ago

    Trump knows it wasn’t vandals, his supporters know it wasn’t vandals, and his supporters know that Trump knows it wasn’t vandals. This is just a wink and a smile to communicate “look how pissed the liberals are getting.”

    And in all the back and forth, his supporters won’t feel the need to care about all the taxpayer dollars the president is using to deface American symbols.

    • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      20·
      10 days ago

      I have relatives who honestly think the reflecting pool was vandalized after hearing people on Newsmax and other far-right platforms parroting Trump. People like that believe anything Trump says at face value.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Other than people getting prosecuted for shit they didn’t do, I couldn’t give the faintest fuck about the reflecting pool or the grass. Of all the terrible shit Trump has done, throwing away $20 million to deface a monument that will be repaired 5 minutes after he’s out of office is so low on the list I can’t even see it front the peak of Mount Treason. If you started naming every awful thing he’s done, he’d be out of office by the time you got to it.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        I couldn’t give the faintest fuck about the reflecting pool

        Yeah I’m pretty sure no one cares about the pool itself. It’s just a shining example of the larger problem of corruption in The White House.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    10 days ago

    So funny that he says they should go back to law school. He is obviously talking to a single person, but makes the comment to everybody. Like assessing damage to the pool has anything to do with a law degree.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    10 days ago

    Another article without mentioning who the true vandal was. This happened right after the non-compete contractor coated the pool. I think it was the day after and Trump decided to take his motorcade through it.

    President Donald Trump took an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.” He did more than just see it — the president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement. The new blue coating will hide the pool’s gray stone, a color Trump said was “never good.” The project cost nearly $2 million, he said.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDtYhwhD18