Trump arrested an individual and charged him and others with “vandalism” because the incompetent paint job Trump applied to the Reflecting Pool is a complete mess, forcing the Pool to be closed and fenced off.
Four people were charged with vandalism. There was ZERO EVIDENCE OF VANDALISM, but a mountain of evidence that Trump’s contractor was paid $15 million for the botched job. All charges against these people were dropped and now Trump is angry.
When asked about the charges being dropped, Trump responded. This is his response – these are the words of an insane, feeble, ignorant, moron. If a Democratic President had said this, Republicans would be losing their minds demanding he be impeached. Here are Trump’s exact words.
“Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism. I just told you we did, I think, 78. One of the things was to reflecting pool, hasn’t worked since 1922, because it always leaked. It always leaked from 1922. You know, it’s the largest longest pool ever, all that. The concept is beautiful, but it always leaked because of the size, because of maintenance, whatever. But it was built in 1922, and from the day it was built, it like, Biden spent $58 million. Barack Hussein Obama spent much more than that. He said, “I have an idea. Let’s take the river from, let’s take the water from the Potomac.” So they took the water from the Potomac, and it was putrid. It was putrid. It was a disaster. Biden was a disaster. I said, “I’m going to get that face.” Along with Doug Burgum, Department of Interior, and we worked harder than that. Now we worked harder in all ’70s. It’s actually, I think, ’81 now. You saw the new horses that just opened by the bridge with the gold. That was the way they were many years ago. Now they looked better than they did many years ago. But these monuments looked better than they did when they were originally built. Not just a little fix up. We made them the way they were plus, and everyone’s so proud. The biggest, one of the bigger jobs was not really the biggest, believe it or not, but one of the biggest was the reflecting pool. And we did a great job. We sandblasted the stonehouse at his granite, so it has a long life. We did a great job. We got very expensive material to put on top of the surface that always leaked, because it was stone. It was a stone, sir. Always leaked. And we put it on, and it was beautiful. Now we have photographs of tapes, like moving cameras, right? We have them where people are on the side, cutting it with a box knife. So now I’m not saying I was 100% thrilled with the contractor, but the contractor was rushing. We wanted to get it open for July 4th. And we got it done. But in addition, there was vandalism. Number one, look at the grass, where the grass was all knocked out with a very powerful ingredient. We know very well what it is. But like I say, the name, because people get ideas. But they put a terrible phrase, I won’t say that either, but a terrible phrase, on a massive piece of grass that we had just replaced. Kill the grass. We had to replace the grass. A lot of grass. In addition, they took knives or cutters, and they cut the material. And they put their hands and they pulled it. And there was also some maintenance things that we would have routinely fixed. But we had that up, and it was perfect. And then you had the bubblers, which get rid of what forms in the water. And that works great, but they turned it up because of the fight. Because it competed a little bit of noise during the fight. They turned it off, and it grows very rapidly in the water. But that actually works very well. And that’s all. So now we’re just about set to reopen it. And we had to replace cut areas where they cut it and ripped it. But there’s a tape. And Jesse Wooders, by the way, did a whole big thing on it. There’s a tape that’s out there that I posted on truth. Where you have people leaning over the side, the weakest part, because of the flexibility. You know it moves. It’s very complicated. It moves. And the softest part has to be flexible. And that’s the stuff you can cut. And these guys knew what they were doing. And they cut all the way along the base, cut, cut, cut. Now, when you need to look at it, it was a day after the 4th of July, with the largest fireworks display in the world.”
“And the stuff was laying all over the pool, the fireworks. Because they used the pool as one of them. And it was all over the pool as a day after, very shortly thereafter. But that was working beautifully. And it was vandalized. And if you look at the tape, now the tape isn’t a great tape in the sense that it’s a little hard to say who it exactly was. But it was people cutting this very expensive material, what a proofing material. Anyway, it looked beautiful. And then they cut it. And they vandalized. And we weren’t necessarily thrilled with the contractor. But they did a job. And they were fixing any problems. But then it got carried away because the judge was extremely unfriendly. Did you mean, and frankly, I think she choked. Because the judge was really vicious. Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her. And went after her department. And I guess she choked. I don’t know what the hell happened. You reconsidering her role. I don’t know what– you don’t– you fake news. Don’t ever talk again. You fake news. One of the worst in the business. Fortunately, nobody watches you. But something happened. There was vandalism there. And there was some– I think from the contractor, which we would fix. But it’s almost complete. And when it opens, it’s incredible. It’s really incredible. But remember this, it leaked from 1922– it opened in 1922. They never solved the leak problem because it was stone. And the cracks with the stone– it’s not– stone is really not a waterproofing material. We essentially use a very high grade swimming pool type material, which was my idea. It was very proud of that idea. By the way, I didn’t know the contractor. We would have said the contractor. I didn’t know the contractor. But when it was completed, it was perfect. But then somebody went in and cut it. Just like they did the grass. Nobody talks about the grass. The grass have helicopter pictures of what they did. Was it ’87? Do you know what they did, right? Did you see what they did? Did you see what they wrote? Was it ’87 or ’86? ’87? That’s right. ’86, ’47. ’86. So it’s ’86, ’47. They didn’t do ’45, at least they left ’45 now. And massive letters on the grass, ’86, ’47. And nobody talked about that. That was vandalism, too. We had to replace all that grass. It was a tremendous amount of grass. Because when you hit it with this poison, it’s acid. It kills the grass no matter how you can’t even play it. Even if you got there right after, it’s very powerful. So I know it well. So people did great damage to this thing, because they’re sick people. You know, as representing the man, is a man from crew, a sleaze bag, who’s been suing me for my whole political– hasn’t won, he’s lost all the time. But crew, do you know what crew is? It’s a third-rate operation. That’s supposed to be a charity, but it’s not they used it for political reasons. So we should be proud of our monuments, and we should be proud of our city. And that was open before they did the damage. It was open. It never looked more beautiful. It looked like a mirror. And that’s what it was supposed to be. It was a very dark color. Because otherwise, you don’t see it as a reflecting pool. And it looked beautiful. Well, it looked just as beautiful. It’ll be fixed and open over the next week and a half two weeks.”
2:51 PM · Aug 3, 2026
