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Botany

(78,202 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 08:32 AM 11 hrs ago

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

…. would be proof. This is just Trump lying in order to hide the fact he fucked it up. Trump 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 now is blaming other people for the problems he
caused.

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

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There are video surveillance cameras all over the National Mall and if somebody had cut the lining there .... (Original Post) Botany 11 hrs ago OP
Of course. Your first sentence covers it all. Srkdqltr 10 hrs ago #1
On the Reflecting Pool, The Madcap 10 hrs ago #2
This post is not getting enough recs. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #3
Trump has a long history of not supplying evidence to back up his claims. Botany 9 hrs ago #5
Deserves a post of its own. Baitball Blogger 9 hrs ago #9
Trump has been so protected by TPTB it is not funny. Botany 5 hrs ago #11
Definitely deserves a post of its own. Nt bcbink 9 hrs ago #10
Symbolic of everything tRump.... Blue Owl 9 hrs ago #4
So very true 👍 TommieMommy 9 hrs ago #6
The truth malaise 9 hrs ago #7
Yes, that was my thought as well PatSeg 9 hrs ago #8

Baitball Blogger

(52,881 posts)
3. This post is not getting enough recs.
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 09:51 AM
9 hrs ago

It's like the most critical piece of information that could put an end to Trump's whining lies. Release the video!

Watching this nonsense prolong is like watching an audience of adults gasping in fear as the coyote chases the road runner. You want to jump up and yell, "Relax everybody. The coyote is never going to catch the road runner, and it's a fucking cartoon anyway. Now, can we please get on with the main event and watch the movie we paid to come to see."

(That last part will probably only be understood if you're as old as I am.)

Botany

(78,202 posts)
5. Trump has a long history of not supplying evidence to back up his claims.
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 10:16 AM
9 hrs ago

In the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case all he had to was give a DNA sample to his innocence
but he wouldn’t do that.

In his Trump/Russia collusion in 2016 charge all he had to do was to release the complete
Mueller report but he had Bill Barr block its release.

In his first impeachment case all he had to do was release the tape and transcript of his call
to Zelenskyy but he stopped that.

In 2016 he had Melania as having a 4 year degree from a University in Slovinia and she was a
high fashion model but in reality she dropped out after 1 semester and moved to Italy and
became sex worker. In 2016 a fashion magazine put out an article that if she was a model
she would have a portfolio which she did not have.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies could have charged Trump with money laundering
and sex trafficking many times over but never did.

Baitball Blogger

(52,881 posts)
9. Deserves a post of its own.
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 10:34 AM
9 hrs ago

Oh, and add: All he had to do was release his tax report, but instead he got a full exception from audits for himself and his family members.

Botany

(78,202 posts)
11. Trump has been so protected by TPTB it is not funny.
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 02:16 PM
5 hrs ago

What% of Americans know that he HAD TO GO TO MILITARY SCHOOL instead of a juvenile
detention facility? The man should be in prison right now for J-6th, the theft of classified
documents,child sex trafficking/rape, and laundering millions of $s for the Russian mob
and oligarchs through his real estate. God only knows the # of murders too. Young girls
that went missing and people who were supposed to give testimony about Donny including
Ivana wound up dead.

Blue Owl

(60,024 posts)
4. Symbolic of everything tRump....
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 09:56 AM
9 hrs ago

Turning a perfectly fine reflecting pool into a cesspool

PatSeg

(53,994 posts)
8. Yes, that was my thought as well
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 10:31 AM
9 hrs ago

It would be near impossible to pull off such a stunt without being seen.

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