Anyone believe this?

[senseandsensibility]

Trump today on social media when he should be concerned about the debacle he caused in Iran: "The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nation's magnificent Reflecting Pool. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair."

In case you haven't been following, this is his way to blame his failure at the Reflecting Pool renovation on "vandals". I don't know. Color me skeptical.

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

He is the vandal. I'd like him to serve a few years.

[Shellback Squid]

2. the Visigoths will be next

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Followed by the Ostrogoths!

Next...the Huns.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Blame it on the Alans. See ICE start arresting everyone named Alan, Allen, etc. nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

32. Makes sense to me, at least as much as anything does these days.

[ybbor]

34. Alans you say...

?si=hUM73Rw61ZZoHSwe

[Gaytano70]

28. Nicely done.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. Part of the plan to blame the pool's current state of others

[Xavier Breath]

4. Yes, I'd call the contractor who did the job a vandal.

On our dime, no less.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Hell no.

[Emile]

7. If true, how did he avoid being arrested?

[Goonch]

9. ;-{) SELF MEDICATING

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[Scrivener7]

10. What an asshole.

[KS Toronado]

11. Just another Epstein distraction.

[Liberal In Texas]

12. People are grabbing hunks of the blue paint (or whatever it is) floating up

probably for souvenirs. So, this gives him a way to validate the vandalism claim. A claim that says the problem hasn't been that the work was done incompetently, but someone(s) have ruined it.

More of his utter nonsense not taking responsibility for anything.

[Lonestarblue]

13. So will it rake another $14 million to fix the pool again?

One mire grifting opportunity for the Imbecile in Chief.

[slightlv]

14. Its not only his way of finding somebody (on the Left) to scapegoat,

it's also his opportunity to once again spend unlimited and unaccounted for taxpayers dollars! Millions to do the damage, even more millions to repair the damage he did.

It's a racket and a pattern...

[LisaL]

15. Oh yea, they are arresting people.

One guy was riding his bike, they got him. He says he is not a vandal, and I believe him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/20/cyclist-arrested-reflecting-pool-denies-trump-vandalism-claims/

[senseandsensibility]

24. He accused Jonathan Karl of ABC of being a vandal

when he was reporting at the pool and pulled up some of the blue paint!

[Emrys]

16. Just fill the bloody thing up with Brawndo and have done with it. n/t

[SergeStorms]

21. It's got....

electrolytes.

Next: the garbambulanches.

[BeneteauBum]

17. Just more BS bluster

Peace ☮️

[paleotn]

18. Exactly.

[oasis]

19. One guy is "multiple individuals"?

Trump is more full of shit than Bandini Mountain.

[AverageOldGuy]

20. Biden and Obama sneaking in at night

[peggysue2]

37. That's it!

Of course, Biden and Obama. And Hillary, too. It's a conspiracy of vandals sneaking in at night to ruin Baby Trump's YUGE success, a crystal clear reflecting pool where he can admire his own mug.

He'll do and say anything to shirk accountability.

The LIES are legion!

[Beartracks]

22. MAGA will believe it.

[Talitha]

30. Yes. Sadly, yes. They will believe it.

[flvegan]

23. Not if Trump said/posted it, no I don't. n/t

[sakabatou]

25. No one is vandalizing it.

IIRC, someone just picked up a piece of debris, or got near it, or got a photo, and then got arrested.

[Deuxcents]

26. Nah..that makes too much sense. It's antifa vandalism so off with their heads

[Sneederbunk]

27. All algae must be arrested and deported.

[alterfurz]

43. yes, deport them back to Algaeria!

[BadgerMom]

29. Sorry. With all of the camera phones in the world, pictures or it didn't happen.

[Soul_of_Wit]

33. Next, let's find that guy vandalizing the White House (n/m)

[GiqueCee]

35. Vandals are not...

... generally known to be very intelligent creatures. But then, neither is Trump. He just added a new word to his lexicon of insults, and is spewing it at every possible opportunity. Like "Dum" without the "B" that nobody but him even knew was part of the word.
But more to the point, how would anyone, vandal or not, manage to introduce an algae that could spread from even several source points to encompass an area of water that is more than 2,000 feet long, 167 feet wide, roughly 2 feet deep, and contains nearly 7 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER?!!? And cover that vast area in a matter of days? Yeah, I don't believe it, either. And neither should anyone with the common sense of an old gym sock.
Trump is a pathological liar. That's an irrefutable fact. Trump never, ever accepts responsibility for anything. That's an irrefutable fact. He'd carve his own eyes out with a rusty spoon before he'd ever admit he was wrong about anything. That's an irrefutable fact. No vandal, or group of vandals, could fuck up the Reflecting Pool faster than Trump himself already did. That's an irrefutable fact. He has vandalized more government property in a shorter period of time than anyone in living memory. THAT IS AN IRREFUTABLE FACT!

[relogic]

36. " vandalizing our Nation's magnificent..."

He could have stopped after “magnificent”.
No POTUS has ever vandalized our NATION (DC REALESTATE included) as he. His self grandstanding, malignant narcissism impulses behind all this vandalism makes the destruction too infuriating to put into words.

[returnee]

38. After what he did to it...

…it could be argued it’s no longer a national monument. He destroyed the monument.

[Bo Zarts]

39. Vandals now .. Visigoths later?

[Figarosmom]

40. Probably people (tourists) like that photographer

Put their hand in the water to touch the chips or something. None of them were "vandalizing"and will not even stand trial I would guess. They'll be released.

[AverageOldGuy]

41. When Trump uttered those words:

1. Did you publish it on social media? If so, he's lying.
2. If he spoke those words, were his lips moving? If so, he's lying.

[TygrBright]

42. A vandal totally did this. His initials are D. J. T. n/t

[Martin68]

44. Trump pardoned HIS vandals after they damaged the Capitol building at his behest. He vandalized the White House

Rose Garden and East Wing. He is vandalizing parkland and sacred sites by building his stupid wall through pristine country. Trump doesn't care about vandalism. He encourages it.