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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says there can be no more fitting metaphor of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term than \u201ctrillions of microscopic organisms suck[ing] up all the oxygen and endanger[ing] life around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s self-inflicted wound is the worst \u2018in American history\u2019: Economist.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence,\u201d wrote Dowd. \u201c\u2026 That essence is slimy, stinky and unrelenting, as reflected in the mass of algae that infests the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lincoln Memorial, she said, was the \u201challowed site where Marian Anderson serenaded a throng after getting banished from Constitution Hall for her race, and where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his \u2018I Have a Dream\u2019 speech to an even bigger crowd around the 2,028-foot pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

But now National Park Service workers are sloshing through the green soup in waders, using hoses to suck up dead algae and flush the vibrant green ick into DC sewers.<\/p>\n

And while Trump is deep in denial mode over his new $14 million taxpayer-funded green lagoon, the Interior Department is laboring to blame it all \u2014 somehow \u2014 on Barack Obama to please the boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening \u2014 most infamously Obama\u2019s reopening \u2014 since 1922,\u201d the Dept. Interior posted on X (with a carefully crafted photo hiding the muck beneath the water\u2019s reflective surface). \u201cThe Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool \u2014 just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReports of Trump victories, with the knotty issues of Iran and the Reflecting Pool, are premature,\u201d assures Dowd. \u201cIran is gloating about Trump\u2019s bad deal. Senate Republicans \u2026 are deriding it. And the hydrogen peroxide that park workers used to kill the algae is peeling off the \u2018American flag blue\u2019 paint that Trump just had directed be applied to the bottom of the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more White House in panic mode over new secret Trump recordings: report<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump may have restored local fountains and statues with debt spending, but for each laudable effort, \u201cthere\u2019s a litany of loathsome ones,\u201d said Dowd.<\/p>\n

\u201c[L]ike his plans for the hulking ballroom, the egotistical Arc de Trump, the cheesy Mar-a-Lago patio where Jackie\u2019s Rose Garden used to be and the desecration \u2014 now halted by a federal judge \u2014 of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

And \u2014 as in all things, be they local renovations or massive Middle Eastern wars \u2014 Trump has a habit of \u201crushing in unilaterally, refusing to consult anyone except sycophants, insisting the results are amazing even when we can see that they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plenty of Americans miss the days when the U.S. built grand things, she adds, so there is a certain appeal for a \u201ccrazy president [to] squash the bureaucracy and get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as usual with Trump, you eventually have to accept that he\u2019s incompetent and corrupt and tacky, and just an all-around mess,\u201d said Dowd.<\/p>\n

Read more The race to the bottom \u2014 and how tribalism made scandal-plagued politicians unstoppable<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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