{"id":3698,"date":"2026-07-17T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:59:53","slug":"humiliated-trump-makes-bonkers-claim-about-reflecting-pool-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3698","title":{"rendered":"Humiliated Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Reflecting Pool Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>President Donald Trump returned to ranting about alleged vandals destroying the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday, despite the mounting evidence that the issues were caused by errors made during his renovation attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3696\">Trump Gets a Dire Midterm Warning as MAGA Turns Toxic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hot off his rambling primetime address about \u201celection integrity,\u201d the president, 80, took to Truth Social on Friday morning to complain about the botched Reflecting Pool with further unsubstantiated claims. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe Reflecting Pool, so badly damaged by Deranged Vandals, has been emptied as the massive slash gets repaired,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cWe got it through the great July Fourth Weekend. What kind of animals would do such a thing? We are looking for a Vandal Proof material, but such a thing should not have been necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The president went on to declare, \u201cThe Scum in Court will hopefully be prosecuted to the MAX.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Reflecting Pool was fully drained this week to repair issues with the president\u2019s $14 million renovation job after workers held off on the continued work until after the 4th of July. <\/p>\n<p>But as the water was completely removed from the pool on the National Mall to assess and fix the damage, it revealed there was a massive gash caused by vandals, as Trump had repeatedly claimed. <\/p>\n<p>The president, in recent weeks, had claimed the gash was 250 feet long, then 300 feet, before writing in a post on Truth Social this week that it was actually 300 yards long, which would be 900 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the empty pool bed, which Trump had demanded be painted a shade he called \u201cAmerican flag blue\u201d before it turned a bright shade of green and was plagued by algae blooms, showed peeling paint in multiple places and was no longer blue. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3695\">Republican Pollster Trashes Trump\u2019s \u2018Stupid\u2019 Move<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the president has ranted about vandals destroying the 2,000-foot pool, only one person has been charged to date: former Olympian David Hearn, who pleaded not guilty and argued he was simply touching peeling material. <\/p>\n<p>Hearn\u2019s lawyer accused the Trump administration of trying to use his client as a scapegoat for its botched renovation project. <\/p>\n<p>Reporters with The Washington Post identified seven spots in the pool where the lining had partially or entirely peeled away. Using satellite imagery, photos, and videos, their analysis found that all lining failures occurred at seams in the coating painted at different times. <\/p>\n<p>When they had four experts in waterproofing materials review their findings, the experts with decades of experience said the failures \u201cstrongly suggested errors in the application process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When The Washington Post took its findings to the White House, spokesperson Taylor Rogers insisted, \u201cThere were no missteps during the initial repairs to the pool\u201d and repeated claims about alleged gashes. <\/p>\n<p>The pool remains fenced off from the public as workers have been spotted assessing it this week. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3693\">Trump, 80, Tries to Hide Chronic Health Issue During Primetime Speech<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump returned to ranting about alleged vandals destroying the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday, despite the mounting evidence that the issues were caused by errors made during his renovation attempt. Read more Trump Gets a Dire Midterm Warning as MAGA Turns Toxic Hot off his rambling primetime address about \u201celection integrity,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Humiliated Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Reflecting Pool Damage - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=3698\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Humiliated Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Reflecting Pool Damage - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Donald Trump returned to ranting about alleged vandals destroying the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday, despite the mounting evidence that the issues were caused by errors made during his renovation attempt. 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