Puddle Deep

Trump is blaming “vandals” for his Reflecting Pool debacle and his cultists believe him

About a month ago, Trump bragged about his new $14 million-plus Reflecting Pool makeover, “It’s very strong. You couldn’t, if you had a knife — I don’t want to give anybody ideas — if you had a knife, you can’t even cut it. It’s so strong, so powerful. It’s like powerful rubber.” And now that the “American Flag blue” paint job and coating is peeling off, he claims that “vandals” used a knife or box-cutter to “very violently” cut either a 250-ft. or 350-ft (depending on what sort of exaggerating mood he’s in) slit down the length of the entire thing. Somehow. That and these “vandals” dumped fertilizer into the pool to cause the smelly algae growth that has exploded there. Again, somehow. Obviously, it’s nonsense, but his cult-like, die-hard followers are lapping this up and regurgitating it. Reportedly, six people have been arrested for vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, which is outrageous. Especially considering all of the men in the Epstein Files who committed actual crimes are still walking around free and Trump’s minions couldn’t care less.

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