Here's why MAGA keeps eating up Trump's 'silly lies' about Reflecting Pool: columnist

[turbinetree]

By Travis Gettys
Published June 24, 2026 8:29 AM ET

The ongoing saga of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a "hilarious reminder" of President Donald Trump's incompetence, according to a columnist who argues that the debacle underlines his MAGA base's powerful attachment to his failings.

The pool, recently repainted under Trump's direction, has turned murky and algae-covered, with the paint visibly peeling, and rather than acknowledge a botched renovation, the president has pushed a theory that vandals attacked the pool with a box cutter – a claim that directly contradicts his own earlier boasts and strains credulity, argued Salon's Amanda Marcotte.

"Although such an act would require blade skills beyond even the greatest of samurai, federal authorities have arrested five people," she wrote.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-reflecting-pool-2677088679/

Maybe someone should tell the lazy thinking maga base that they are supporters of this word..................gaslighting and every fucking dictator wanna be and authoritarian fascist dictator wanna be uses gaslighting to deflect there utter incompetence to lack empathy in there malignant narcissism...........

Gaslighting
Reviewed by Abigail Fagan on November 10, 2025

Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity. Over time, a gaslighter’s manipulations can grow more complex and potent, making it increasingly difficult for the victim to see the truth.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gaslighting

[Coldwater]

1. It's more than self-inflicted

It's been fact checked; Trump's motorcade drove through newly painted reflecting pool in May 2026

[mwmisses4289]

2. Because they are incredibly stupid, hate themselves, and hate America?

[Cheezoholic]

3. The only reason I care is because it bothers the hell out of him. There's more impotant stuff to worry about but if

it makes that 1 brain cell in his head shake like a maraca then by all means, more protesting pink frogs

[Johonny]

4. They thought people were eating pets

And daycares were operating without kids...

These people are fucking stupid. It's amazing their brain remembers to breath.

[Swede]

9. These same people thought immigrants were getting $3000 per month

In social security. Not deep thinkers.

[Wednesdays]

11. That, and that illegal immigrants have been voting in droves.

[Ocelot II]

5. Direct link to the Salon article:

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/24/why-maga-buys-trumps-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-hoax/

[turbinetree]

8. Thank you for posting.............

[BH liberal]

6. It's the cult...

cultivating excuses no matter how patched-together they are.

[Hey Joe]

7. Trump himself said on tape before the work

was even finished, that the lining of the pool could not be cut by a blade!
On tape!
Then they drove over the empty pool bottom
with a motorcade of very heavy vehicles before
filling it!
On tape!
Jesus Christ, do these nitwits possess a
cause/effect memory function?

[Aristus]

10. Because they're a festering lot of submoronic, squirrel-brained,

clodhoppers with the intellectual acumen of an anvil, and the morals of a medieval Pope?

Just spitballing here…

[Maru Kitteh]

12. He hates who they hate and that's all they care about.

They know it’s a joke, they just don’t care.