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During a Wednesday press conference, President Donald Trump could not wait to announce that crews will begin refilling the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after spending over a month resurfacing it with “American flag blue” sealant.<\/p>\n

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But what caught hecklers was the moment Trump pulled out a poster in the Oval Office comparing the size of the reflecting pool to that of some of the largest buildings in the U.S., as if the investment he put on U.S. taxpayers\u2019 had done anything to extend the length of the pool\u2014or that a rectangular water-filled hole could compare to the girders, architecture and design that goes into the Empire State Building of the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has to pump up those rookie numbers,\u201d offered on critic on X, who posted an augmented graph containing a much longer, red bar labeled \u201cMy gas bill\u201d alongside Trump\u2019s blue reflecting pool.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost un-math graph ever!\u201d quipped another critic.<\/p>\n

Many others included simple \u201chead slap\u201d emojis, while another said on X \u201cThis is the chart you make when you\u2019re gunning for that MQ and need to prove you\u2019re better than your peers (but you\u2019ve been shamming).\u201d<\/p>\n

The worst MAGA X users could muster in response was splitting hairs with CBS reporters for referring to the blue sealant as \u201cpaint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool renovation is already brimming with accusations of corruption and of enrichment of the president\u2019s allies. Trump was already flip-flopping on the controversy of who he hired to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Trump previously said he had personally chosen the contractor to fix the Reflecting Pool, because of the good work they did on his golf club’s swimming pools,\u201d The New York Times\u2019 David A. Farenthold posted on X. \u201cNow, Trump says does not know them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farenthold posted his comment after he and fellow New York Times journalist Maxine Joselow ran a Tuesday piece reporting that \u201cInterior Dept. staffers have raised questions about the quality and speed of the work being done to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to documents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump is diverting \u201cat least $60 million\u201d from million from a National Park Service (NPS) entrance fee fund to pay for his various pet projects around Washington. DC,\u201d reported The Hill\u2019s Rachel Frazin.<\/p>\n

An additional $13 million from the fund is going toward Trump\u2019s renovations on the National Mall Reflecting Pool. That last allocation, Frazin added, is not listed in the federal database of NPS projects, which raises questions about how it is being funded. All that is known for sure is that $7 million is coming from park fees.<\/p>\n

Read more Security expert explains how \u2018nuts\u2019 Trump put the US in a downward spiral<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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