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senseandsensibility

(25,951 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 05:31 PM 18 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 18 hrs ago OP
Recommended. H2O Man 18 hrs ago #1
This message was self-deleted by its author greatauntoftriplets 18 hrs ago #5
the Visigoths will be next Shellback Squid 18 hrs ago #2
Followed by the Ostrogoths! greatauntoftriplets 18 hrs ago #8
Blame it on the Alans. See ICE start arresting everyone named Alan, Allen, etc. nt eppur_se_muova 14 hrs ago #31
Makes sense to me, at least as much as anything does these days. greatauntoftriplets 14 hrs ago #32
Alans you say... ybbor 34 min ago #34
Nicely done. Gaytano70 15 hrs ago #28
Part of the plan to blame the pool's current state of others BlueWaveNeverEnd 18 hrs ago #3
Yes, I'd call the contractor who did the job a vandal. Xavier Breath 18 hrs ago #4
Hell no. greatauntoftriplets 18 hrs ago #6
If true, how did he avoid being arrested? Emile 18 hrs ago #7
;-{) SELF MEDICATING Goonch 18 hrs ago #9
What an asshole. Scrivener7 17 hrs ago #10
Just another Epstein distraction. KS Toronado 17 hrs ago #11
People are grabbing hunks of the blue paint (or whatever it is) floating up Liberal In Texas 17 hrs ago #12
So will it rake another $14 million to fix the pool again? Lonestarblue 17 hrs ago #13
Its not only his way of finding somebody (on the Left) to scapegoat, slightlv 17 hrs ago #14
Oh yea, they are arresting people. LisaL 17 hrs ago #15
He accused Jonathan Karl of ABC of being a vandal senseandsensibility 16 hrs ago #24
Just fill the bloody thing up with Brawndo and have done with it. n/t Emrys 16 hrs ago #16
It's got.... SergeStorms 16 hrs ago #21
Just more BS bluster BeneteauBum 16 hrs ago #17
Exactly. paleotn 16 hrs ago #18
One guy is "multiple individuals"? oasis 16 hrs ago #19
Biden and Obama sneaking in at night AverageOldGuy 16 hrs ago #20
MAGA will believe it. Beartracks 16 hrs ago #22
Yes. Sadly, yes. They will believe it. Talitha 14 hrs ago #30
Not if Trump said/posted it, no I don't. n/t flvegan 16 hrs ago #23
No one is vandalizing it. sakabatou 16 hrs ago #25
Nah..that makes too much sense. It's antifa vandalism so off with their heads Deuxcents 15 hrs ago #26
All algae must be arrested and deported. Sneederbunk 15 hrs ago #27
Sorry. With all of the camera phones in the world, pictures or it didn't happen. BadgerMom 15 hrs ago #29
Next, let's find that guy vandalizing the White House (n/m) Soul_of_Wit 42 min ago #33
Vandals are not... GiqueCee 6 min ago #35

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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
17 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

(13,620 posts)
13. So will it rake another $14 million to fix the pool again?
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 06:48 PM
17 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
17 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
16 hrs ago

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

sakabatou

(46,524 posts)
25. No one is vandalizing it.
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 08:07 PM
16 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
6 min 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!

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