Trump blames vandals for peeling $16M Reflecting Pool -- but his own motorcade drove across the wet paint weeks earlier

Just weeks before President Donald Trump blamed knife-wielding vandals for the peeling paint at the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, his own motorcade drove straight across it.

On May 7, Trump visited the drained pool to inspect the fresh "American Flag Blue" coating he had ordered. To get there, his motorcade, including the roughly 20,000-pound presidential limousine and armored SUVs, rolled across the pool floor while the new surface was still being applied. The moment was captured by multiple outlets, and White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung posted a video of the motorcade with the caption "they see me rolling!" (1)

NBC footage shows the vehicles crossing a seemingly wet patch and leaving tire marks behind (2).

A month later, the renovation is a mess. Algae has tinted the water green, chunks of blue coating are peeling off and floating to the surface, and Trump has said the pool will likely need to be drained again for repairs (3).

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