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Related: About this forum'National embarrassment': Nicolle RIPS Trump over his unrelenting fixation on Reflecting Pool - Deadline - MS NOW
Trump is making excuses and deflecting blame for his failed multi-million dollar Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation. Nicolle is joined by Arielle Hixson and Jon Heilemann for discussion on Deadline: White House. - Aired on 06/25/2026.
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'National embarrassment': Nicolle RIPS Trump over his unrelenting fixation on Reflecting Pool - Deadline - MS NOW (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
21 hrs ago
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sop
(19,874 posts)1. Trump will profit from this disaster...

Rhiannon12866
(261,076 posts)2. Good Grief! I sure wouldn't put this past them!
sop
(19,874 posts)4. Trump's arresting anyone who even touches a chunk of peeling paint so he can keep all the profits.
Rhiannon12866
(261,076 posts)5. I'm surprised he hasn't thought of this already...
dedl67
(281 posts)3. This situation will probably attain 'Lieutenant Kije' proportions.
Trumps sycophants, like the Czars royal officials in that Russian tale, will have to manufacture all sorts of evidence supporting the deluded Trumps fantasy of vandalism against the Reflecting Pool. This is likely to get increasingly bizarre.
rampartd
(5,492 posts)6. can't wait to see the knife that cut the 350 ft slit
in "paint like you've never seen it. can not be cut and lasts at least 50 years."
sounds like he called 1 800 infomercial for the 2 fpr 1 reflecting pool special.