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Trump Forced to Admit His ‘Beautiful’ Project Turned Into a Gross Horror

The Daily Beast

June 21, 2026

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Trump Forced to Admit His ‘Beautiful’ Project Turned Into a Gross Horror

Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesEven President Donald Trump admits that his pet project to “restore” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has failed miserably.In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump commented on the sad state of the Reflecting Pool after he ordered a hasty 14 million project to paint it “American Flag Blue.”“Work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool. I just inspected it, and could only say to myself, and those gathered around me, WOW, who would do such a thing?” the president, 80, wrote. “SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE! We will fix it?”Read more at The Daily Beast.

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