Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired.
Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he’d line it with “American flag blue” so it better reflected the Washington Monument. But after the new pool was unveiled, its blue tinge quickly became a familiar green. Workers treated it with chemicals to kill the algae, but then the painted blue lining on the bottom began to peel.
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Sibilantjoe@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 58d
Imagine being arrested and charged with a felony because a geriatric narcissist is too far gone to admit his cronies did a shit job:
jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 58d
I first skimmed this comment and read Bethesda and then misread watercraft for Warcraft. I was confused about what that had to do with the topic.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · -42 pts · 58d
Imagine your white privilege (assuming this guy is white) not protecting you from dipping your hand into what Trump imagined to be a literal pool.
Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk · 16 pts · 58d
Why do you assume he’s white?
egrets@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 58d
I've got not horse in this race, but just in case people are interested, Davey Hearn is indeed white.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 57d
Because they didn’t beat him and send him to jail.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d
they might have, they usually leave that out of the report.
nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 58d
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 58d
grue@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 58d
Imagine thinking that not expecting to be arrested for touching the reflecting pool is a "white privilege" thing.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 58d
School_Lunch@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 58d
This was suppose to be the one thing he didn't fail at. His real-estate business is the one that he didn't bankrupt. I would say now, it is definitive that its only still going because of fraud. He can't even maintain a pool...
What a completely worthless human....
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 58d
Typical narcissist. Blame everyone else for your own shortcomings and mistakes
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 58d
It wasn't a mistake, it was a kickback scheme. You steer a contract toward a trusted buddy, who does a shit job using shit materials, and they split the profit, especially the overruns, which are 100% profit.
Now you have to intimidate anyone who is considering investigating it.
This sort of scheme has been his Bread & Butter for his entire [criminal] "career."
socsa@piefed.social · 7 pts · 58d
Right, but Trump can't even do the absolute simplest form of corruption right. The intersection of his incompetence and narcissism means he can't even paint a pool without making it into a fiasco. It's seems stupid but it just shows how his entire situation is unraveling. Good con men understand the value of subtlety, and do not tolerate incompetence. Trump is so fucking stupid that he can't even grift properly as the most powerful man in the world.
snooggums@piefed.world · 1 pts · 57d
You just described his shortcomings and mistakes.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 58d
It's 2026. We no longer substantiate anything - we just make whatever claims we want and attack whoever dares to call us out on it. That's how I got my PhD.
TheRiskiestBiscuit@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 58d
YOU FILLED IT WITH WATER AND THEN DUMPED PEROXIDE IN IT BEFORE IT HAD TIME TO CURE, YOU DOLT.
socsa@piefed.social · 9 pts · 58d
The absolute fucking irony of the claim that vandals "dumped corrosive chemicals into the pool" lmao the writers of this season are just phoning it in at this point.
newton@feddit.online · 8 pts · 58d
Ivermectine,will take care of it just like covid
Palerider@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 57d
Or just stick a UV bulb in there!
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org · 8 pts · 58d
Trump? Facts?
Are you kidding me?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 58d
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 58d
No moving forward without executions.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 58d
Should we just start believing him?
He's got an honest face.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 58d
Honestly punchable.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 58d
With a tire iron. I wouldn't want to get bronzer and blood on my fists.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 56d
yeah and who knows if he actually killed any of those kids in the epstein case. They found recently dug up graves when they looked for remains, but no bodies in the graves anymore, so clearly no evidence of any crimes.
Case closed.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 58d
I think that face would look more honest with some blood.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 57d
we will believe him when he stop using this to hide from the files.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 57d
this would all go away if stop using this as a distraction from the victims of epstein files.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 57d
Was there ever a doubt this octogenarian child wasn't going to take responsibility?