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Zorro

(18,264 posts)
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:31 PM Thursday

Reno-Obsessed Trump Reveals His Next D.C. Remodel Target

The MAGAfication of the nation’s capital is not slowing down.

The National Mall is due for a MAGA makeover.

President Donald Trump, 79, said Wednesday that the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial has become overrun by “filth,” so he is stepping in to transform the space.

“This is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and I fix it,” Trump posted to Truth Social, along with a short clip. “Study it hard because you won’t be seeing this Biden filth and incompetence much longer!”

“Time to Say Goodbye” by Andrea Bocelli played in the background of the clip.

The reflecting pool was not installed by former President Joe Biden. It was completed in 1923 and designed to reflect either the Washington Monument or the then-newly constructed Lincoln Memorial, depending on how one looks at it.

Aerial photos of the pool taken earlier this month show a significant amount of algae on its bottom, which was highlighted in the clip Trump shared on Truth Social.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/reno-obsessed-trump-reveals-his-next-dc-remodel-target/

He'll probably fill it with concrete and erect a statue of himself in the middle...
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Ocelot II

(128,536 posts)
2. I shudder to think...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:35 PM
Thursday

He'll probably line it with gold and install a bunch of horrible faux-Baroque fountains adorned with LED lights that spell out his name.

Blues Heron

(8,116 posts)
3. American soldiers he put in harms way are literally fighting for their lives and this scum posts this? WTAF
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:36 PM
Thursday

The president is insane

Retrograde

(11,356 posts)
7. Isn't Congress in charge of DC?
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 03:28 PM
Thursday

Don't they have the final say on what goes on on federal properties in DC?

valleyrogue

(2,494 posts)
8. The headline writer can't tell the difference between Reno and Las Vegas. They are NOT the same thing.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 03:35 PM
Thursday

There is a world of difference between the two cities. I lived 26 years in Reno and visited Las Vegas a couple of times.

Not at all the same.

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