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senseandsensibility

(25,951 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 05:31 PM 20 hrs ago

Anyone believe this?

Trump today on social media when he should be concerned about the debacle he caused in Iran: "The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nation's magnificent Reflecting Pool. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair."

In case you haven't been following, this is his way to blame his failure at the Reflecting Pool renovation on "vandals". I don't know. Color me skeptical.

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Anyone believe this? (Original Post) senseandsensibility 20 hrs ago OP
Recommended. H2O Man 20 hrs ago #1
This message was self-deleted by its author greatauntoftriplets 20 hrs ago #5
the Visigoths will be next Shellback Squid 20 hrs ago #2
Followed by the Ostrogoths! greatauntoftriplets 20 hrs ago #8
Blame it on the Alans. See ICE start arresting everyone named Alan, Allen, etc. nt eppur_se_muova 16 hrs ago #31
Makes sense to me, at least as much as anything does these days. greatauntoftriplets 16 hrs ago #32
Alans you say... ybbor 2 hrs ago #34
Nicely done. Gaytano70 17 hrs ago #28
Part of the plan to blame the pool's current state of others BlueWaveNeverEnd 20 hrs ago #3
Yes, I'd call the contractor who did the job a vandal. Xavier Breath 20 hrs ago #4
Hell no. greatauntoftriplets 20 hrs ago #6
If true, how did he avoid being arrested? Emile 20 hrs ago #7
;-{) SELF MEDICATING Goonch 20 hrs ago #9
What an asshole. Scrivener7 19 hrs ago #10
Just another Epstein distraction. KS Toronado 19 hrs ago #11
People are grabbing hunks of the blue paint (or whatever it is) floating up Liberal In Texas 19 hrs ago #12
So will it rake another $14 million to fix the pool again? Lonestarblue 19 hrs ago #13
Its not only his way of finding somebody (on the Left) to scapegoat, slightlv 19 hrs ago #14
Oh yea, they are arresting people. LisaL 19 hrs ago #15
He accused Jonathan Karl of ABC of being a vandal senseandsensibility 17 hrs ago #24
Just fill the bloody thing up with Brawndo and have done with it. n/t Emrys 18 hrs ago #16
It's got.... SergeStorms 18 hrs ago #21
Just more BS bluster BeneteauBum 18 hrs ago #17
Exactly. paleotn 18 hrs ago #18
One guy is "multiple individuals"? oasis 18 hrs ago #19
Biden and Obama sneaking in at night AverageOldGuy 18 hrs ago #20
That's it! peggysue2 1 hr ago #37
MAGA will believe it. Beartracks 18 hrs ago #22
Yes. Sadly, yes. They will believe it. Talitha 16 hrs ago #30
Not if Trump said/posted it, no I don't. n/t flvegan 17 hrs ago #23
No one is vandalizing it. sakabatou 17 hrs ago #25
Nah..that makes too much sense. It's antifa vandalism so off with their heads Deuxcents 17 hrs ago #26
All algae must be arrested and deported. Sneederbunk 17 hrs ago #27
Sorry. With all of the camera phones in the world, pictures or it didn't happen. BadgerMom 16 hrs ago #29
Next, let's find that guy vandalizing the White House (n/m) Soul_of_Wit 2 hrs ago #33
Vandals are not... GiqueCee 1 hr ago #35
" vandalizing our Nation's magnificent..." relogic 1 hr ago #36
After what he did to it... returnee 1 hr ago #38

Response to H2O Man (Reply #1)

Liberal In Texas

(16,522 posts)
12. People are grabbing hunks of the blue paint (or whatever it is) floating up
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 06:45 PM
19 hrs ago

probably for souvenirs. So, this gives him a way to validate the vandalism claim. A claim that says the problem hasn't been that the work was done incompetently, but someone(s) have ruined it.

More of his utter nonsense not taking responsibility for anything.

Lonestarblue

(13,621 posts)
13. So will it rake another $14 million to fix the pool again?
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 06:48 PM
19 hrs ago

One mire grifting opportunity for the Imbecile in Chief.

slightlv

(8,166 posts)
14. Its not only his way of finding somebody (on the Left) to scapegoat,
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 06:50 PM
19 hrs ago

it's also his opportunity to once again spend unlimited and unaccounted for taxpayers dollars! Millions to do the damage, even more millions to repair the damage he did.

It's a racket and a pattern...

senseandsensibility

(25,951 posts)
24. He accused Jonathan Karl of ABC of being a vandal
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 08:04 PM
17 hrs ago

when he was reporting at the pool and pulled up some of the blue paint!

peggysue2

(12,642 posts)
37. That's it!
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 12:42 PM
1 hr ago

Of course, Biden and Obama. And Hillary, too. It's a conspiracy of vandals sneaking in at night to ruin Baby Trump's YUGE success, a crystal clear reflecting pool where he can admire his own mug.

He'll do and say anything to shirk accountability.

The LIES are legion!





sakabatou

(46,526 posts)
25. No one is vandalizing it.
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 08:07 PM
17 hrs ago

IIRC, someone just picked up a piece of debris, or got near it, or got a photo, and then got arrested.

GiqueCee

(5,013 posts)
35. Vandals are not...
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 12:01 PM
1 hr ago

... generally known to be very intelligent creatures. But then, neither is Trump. He just added a new word to his lexicon of insults, and is spewing it at every possible opportunity. Like "Dum" without the "B" that nobody but him even knew was part of the word.
But more to the point, how would anyone, vandal or not, manage to introduce an algae that could spread from even several source points to encompass an area of water that is more than 2,000 feet long, 167 feet wide, roughly 2 feet deep, and contains nearly 7 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER?!!? And cover that vast area in a matter of days? Yeah, I don't believe it, either. And neither should anyone with the common sense of an old gym sock.
Trump is a pathological liar. That's an irrefutable fact. Trump never, ever accepts responsibility for anything. That's an irrefutable fact. He'd carve his own eyes out with a rusty spoon before he'd ever admit he was wrong about anything. That's an irrefutable fact. No vandal, or group of vandals, could fuck up the Reflecting Pool faster than Trump himself already did. That's an irrefutable fact. He has vandalized more government property in a shorter period of time than anyone in living memory. THAT IS AN IRREFUTABLE FACT!

relogic

(355 posts)
36. " vandalizing our Nation's magnificent..."
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 12:23 PM
1 hr ago

He could have stopped after “magnificent”.
No POTUS has ever vandalized our NATION (DC REALESTATE included) as he. His self grandstanding, malignant narcissism impulses behind all this vandalism makes the destruction too infuriating to put into words.

returnee

(1,001 posts)
38. After what he did to it...
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 12:49 PM
1 hr ago

…it could be argued it’s no longer a national monument. He destroyed the monument.

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