If the pool lining had been cut with a knife, the clean cut would be evidence. And it be be different

[riversedge]

from a tear, as the cut would be clean and or sharp IMHO.
But no one is talking about preserving this evidence--not Trump nor his pals.
Instead Trump just continues to claim the pool lining cut cut-slashed and the media keeps reporting it.





Christopher Webb‬
‪@cwebbonline.com‬
· 9h
TRUMP THEN: If you had a knife, you can't even cut the Reflecting Pool.

TRUMP NOW: We have vandalism… I think 290, 300 foot slit right through, and probably a box cutter, or a knife of some kind.

TRUMP THEN: If you had a knife, you can't even cut the Reflecting Pool.

TRUMP NOW: We have vandalism… I think 290, 300 foot slit right through, and probably a box cutter, or a knife of some kind.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-06-23T00:50:32.254Z

BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️
@mmpadellan
·
15h
trump, May 4th: "If you had a knife, you can't cut it"

trump now: SOMEBODY CUT IT WITH A KNIFE!

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Skittles]

1. the story is fucking ridiculous

I doubt even the cult is buying it

[Ray Bruns]

18. "I doubt even the cult is buying it"

Au contraire.

[erronis]

39. Their brains have a semi-permeable membrane that lets trumpshit flow inward

and reason escape.

[Hugin]

2. It couldn't possibly be the wrong thing at the wrong place by the wrong people the wrong way at the wrong time.

Perish the thought.



Pathetic.

[riversedge]

3. "An NFL football field measures 120 yards long by 53⅓ yards wide (360 ft 160 ft), "...so the Trump

claim that there was a about a 300 foot long CUT in the pool lining would mean the length/size of the supposed CUT with a knife would be a little less than the Length of a football field.
This would take a long time to do and the pool is under observation by a camera from what I have read.

I was just trying to imagine how big this supposed cut was.







https://coversports.com/resources/field-guides/professional-football-field-dimensions-guide

Diagram illustrating official NFL football field dimensions, including total field length, width, end zones, hash marks, and yard line measurements used in the NFL

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Shop Football Field Equipment
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Football field length: 100 yards (300 ft) between goal lines.
Football field width: 53⅓ yards (160 ft) sideline-to-sideline.
Add two 10-yard end zones for a 120-yard (360 ft) total footprint—commonly cited as 360 ft × 160 ft.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

20. Jewish space lasers. It seems really obvious.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Despicable liar.

[tetedur]

5. The coating did not properly bond to the surface of the cement.

That is why it is separating in jagged sheets. Everything out of his mouth is a lie.

[gordianot]

6. Everyday somewhere pools are vandalized with knives.

There should be specific penalties for this heinous crime

[Just Jerome]

8. Thoughts and prayers

for those pools and their families

[KS Toronado]

14. When & who invented paint you can cut with a knife?

[gordianot]

24. Paint remover makers should protest paint you can cut is bad for buisness.

[Raven123]

7. If a $14 million pool makeover could be so poorly executed

Just think of what could happen to a $300 (or 400, or 500 or whatever the latest is) ballroom and that grotesque arch.

Incompetence on steroids

[LymphocyteLover]

11. not to mention a $50 billion dollar war and the subsequent peace negotiations

[LymphocyteLover]

9. he's a dumb, delusional, demented liar... as always... but now even worse

[Woodwizard]

10. It is paint

How was it cut?

[yellowcanine]

12. Trumps cutting claim is on par with his pet eating claim.

Which is to say, it is stuff and nonsense, as my grandma would say.

[MadameButterfly]

25. This will be less obvious to the lemmings and

some of them fell for the pet scam.

Seriously, someone not under Trump needs to document the damage so innocent people aren't prosecuted and the people who botched the job are held liable.

[mtairyguy]

13. A presidential motorcade of heavy vehicles

…was driven across the newly resurfaced reflecting pool. Why is this fact not front and center in any discussion of damage to the pool?

[MadameButterfly]

33. Wow. I just looked that up. People were worried before it happened

that the motorcade might compromise the surface and the mechanics of the reflecting pool. Duh.

I shouldn't have had to wade deep into DU to find this out. Seriously, we are hearing about Trump's knife theory, they are arresting people, and no coverage of this?

[drray23]

44. It has been all over.

Im surprised you missed it.

[mtairyguy]

45. Since our media is now questioning how

…the surface began to crack and peel, one would think they would question whether the motorcade was the cause. Repotting that the motorcade happened then without mentioning it after the damage became apparent is not fully informative.

[drray23]

52. True. They never seem to go the next logical step.nt.

[pecosbob]

58. The presidential limo 'the beast' weighs 20,000 lbs.

[twodogsbarking]

15. The Epstein Deflecting Pool.

[3catwoman3]

41. Thread Winner or DUzy or something - that's brilliant!

[twodogsbarking]

42. Tanks

[IronLionZion]

16. As opposed to the Jan 6 videos showing typical tourist behavior

It would be impressive to do that much underwater cutting without being noticed. Must be ninjas.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

22. Ninjas controlling Jewish space lasers....

Republicans are a caricature of serious people....

[Escape]

17. When they drain the pool..

they will find some kind of cutters and some sliced material and whatever else they can "drop" for false evidence.

They may have to build an enormous tarp over the whole thing while it's being "investigated".

[Ray Bruns]

19. Stop trying to rationalize the demented ramblings of a dementia ridden person

[gab13by13]

21. They used a material that is designed for truck bed liners,

The material is designed for steel not for concrete of marble or whatever the reflecting pool is made of.

Fucking idiot did a no bid contract so he could get a piece of the 15 million dollars. Now he will get a piece of whatever it costs to try to fix it.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Wasn't It A Painted On Lining?

Why would cutting paint make it come off in sheets?
Unless, of course, it was applied poorly & the added water before it was cured.
In which case, cutting it had nothing to do with it.

[questionseverything]

53. The repairs to the actual pool didn't have time to cure

Then they drove on the liner and filled it with water before it had time to set

I saw an interview with a “pool guy “, he thought a six month time frame might of worked but of course it was given barely six days

[ProfessorGAC]

55. Consistent With My Point

If it had been done correctly, even someone cutting it (which I don't believe) would cause it to spall in chunk.
I actually think it had time to cure, though.
The chemistry suggests 90% curing in about 4 hours; 99% plus in 24 hours.
The kinetic rate is fairly high for an in situ reaction with no mixing to enhance mass transfer.
My guess is that it would be 5-10% cured by the time an area is fully coated by roller.
I know a guy that had that done on his garage floor. They told him to wait 6 hours before parking in there.
That's consistent with what I can estimate as a kinetic rate.
I think it more likely that the surface prep was botched by The Failure's buddy.

[questionseverything]

56. We are agreeing, I am just awkward in my phrasing

The problem or at least one problem was in the original pool’s concrete being patched and not left time to set

[ProfessorGAC]

57. That Makes Sense

I also have concerns that they didn't dry it thoroughly.
Once moisture is trapped behind the lining, temperature increases changes the equilibrium between liquid & vapor. As the vapor fraction increases & so does the pressure.
So, since the volume has to increase to relieve the pressure. The only way to increase volume is for the lining to spall.

[Srkdqltr]

26. All ofyou stop. There is no explanation except HE'S NUTS. Every comment about the pool thing should be

HE IS NUTS.

Stop trying to rationalize it.
Everyone knows it.

[MadameButterfly]

35. Actually, since Swift-Boating, nothing can be ignored no matter how crazy

You never know what will take an more. As long as his approval rating is in the 30s instead of in the teens, his claims have to be countered.

[boston bean]

27. It came apart at a seam. Seams are straight. Uggggggggggg

Think critically people!

[Ms. Toad]

30. I was going to say something similar

I'm not even sure it came apart, but the seam is clearly visible in every image I've seen - long and straight down the middle of the reflecting pool. Someone who is determined to play his own stupidity off as vandalism could pretend it was a cut in order to fool people who can't use their eyes and critical thinking.

[MadameButterfly]

36. Why are there seams?

Is this paint or some material laid down in pieces?

[Ms. Toad]

38. I think the seam is in the base the paint sits on,

And if just showing through. Look for images of it empty and unpainted and you'll see there is a line down the middle.

[Melon]

47. That's wouldn't cause the paint to lift on those seams

It’s rolled over.

[Ms. Toad]

49. I'm not saying it did.

I think Trump looked at the central line that was visible through the in paint, had no idea what he was looking at, and decided it was a slash - because nothing else (In his mind) would make a straight line.

The peeling paint is an entirely different matter. I think that's just bubbling up because the surface wasn't prepared properly, was filled with water too soon, and had corrosive chemicals dumped in it. He just conflated the two.

[boston bean]

50. They spray it on in sections. that is obvious in pics of the construction of it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYHvjzMjuYI/?igsh=czkxd3k5ZDRvdGo1

[Melon]

46. This doesn't really work. The coating was rolled

On. There shouldn’t be any seams at all. If you paint a house, there are not seams.

[Botany]

28. There are video surveillance cameras all over the National Mall and if somebody cut the lining there ...

…. would be proof. This is just Trump lying in order to hide the fact he fucked it up, he hired
a swimming pool company from Florida that had no knowledge about working on structures
such as the reflecting pool, he had a fleet of S.U.V.s drive over it before it was set up, millions
of dollars got grifted, ignored experts about albedo, ignored experts about algae, changed the
structure’s design that had areas that allowed some water to escape from the bottom of the pool,
dumped shit loads of H2O2 into the pool, and then blamed other people for what happened.

The Reflecting Pool was working just fine and the National Parks Service had it under control.

[MadameButterfly]

37. My understanding is the pool had problems, Obama spent millions trying to repair

it and it didn't work. Estimate for complete reconstruction would be $300 million, and that was not pursued. I don't recall my source, so tell me if I'm wrong. It's just not my impression there wasn't a problem, just that the solution requires experts, not grift.

[Botany]

43. Without a doubt a structure the size and complexity of that reflecting pool would always need ...

upkeep, maintenance, and repairs. However I remember seeing that they throw away some
kind of rubbery material that went in between the joints of the granite and I would GUESS those
joints allowed for some water to seep out from under the pool and into the ground and with the
water table there only being a few feet down the soil would be pretty much saturated and so
the water would drain away slowly.

Before “they” fixed it where were the engineering studies, the hydrogeologists, the fresh water
ecologists, and the vetting of the contractors?

[John1956PA]

29. Reichstag Fire vibes.

[PurgedVoter]

31. I have seen a lot of blue painted pools

These pools had, kids, teens, grownups and even dogs in them. I don't remember seeing paint peeling. When I have been in these pools, some of these pools have rough surfaces, some smooth, but I don't think I could have even gotten the paint off with a knife. There are plastic liners that could possibly by cut, but that would be a different animal. No question at all that the Idiot in Chief and his pool boy are incompetent.

Yes, the pool was vandalized. The same vandals also vandalized a wing of the White House and the White House gardens.

Anyone who hears Krasnov speak and can't detect that he is lying, is damaged mentally. Sad to be fundamentally unable to relate and compare real experience with words people say.

[NNadir]

32. The planet is burning and we're talking about a pool liner. This, I think, is the true legacy...

...of the collapse of the United States under a senile, corrupt orange pedophile .

[LisaL]

34. I don't know why we are even discussing this

as if were a serious possibility.
Trump needs scapegoats for his algae disaster.

[Godot51]

40. Dead man talking...

[MustLoveBeagles]

48. He's blaming others for his fuck ups

That's it. I was against the reflecting pool renovation but my God if you're going to do it do it right. If he wanted it done by July 4th he should've drained it months ago and covered it to let it dry properly.

[spanone]

51. He's entirely full of fecal matter.

[Torchlight]

54. He's a self-inflicted quicksand of contradictions if ever I saw one nt

[Mysterian]

59. If it were a proper paint job

you could cut it with a knife and it wouldn't do shit.