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Congressional Report on Trump Taking Over 250th Celebration

Under President Donald Trump, this anniversary has been hijacked and perverted into a hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment. This interim report documents how the machinery built for a national commemoration was converted, deliberately and over a period of months, into an apparatus for raising and spendingmoney in service of the President's ego, political ideology, and pet projects.

The Reflecting Pool as a Reflection of Trump’s Corruption and Tin-Potism

Peak Trumpism After President Donald Trump’s boastful, 16 million-plus makeover of the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial was spoiled...

John Oliver Exposes Trump and Fox News’ Jesse Watters Over Reflecting Pool Conspiracies

On Sunday night, John Oliver took aim at Trump’s sparsely attended Great American State Fair before focusing his ire on Trump’s other recent catastrophe: the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. “Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to be an absolute trainwreck,” offered the “Last Week Tonight” host. “It’s been plagued by enormous pools []

Trump ancam penjara terhadap sesiapa rosakkan kolam ikonik

WASHINGTON: Presiden Amerika Syarikat (AS), Donald Trump, pada Isnin mengancam untuk ‘memenjarakan’ sesiapa yang cuba merosakkan salah satu projek pengubahsuaian ikoniknya, iaitu Kolam Pantulan di Memorial Lincoln, Washington, yang kini menjadi polemik politik. Trump telah melantik kontraktor untuk mengeringkan kolam sepanjang 610 meter itu dan mengecatnya dengan warna biru bendera Amerik”. Namun, tidak lama selepas ... Read more The post Trump ancam penjara terhadap sesiapa rosakkan kolam ikonik appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

First Draft – 🌿 🦠 ‘Kill All the F*cking Algae’: Trump’s Failed DC Pyongyang-ification Is Driving Him Insane

The president's sunken mind can't get out of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool he wants so badly to renovate – unless it's time for him to make life miserable for Republicans on Capitol Hill.

The Great American State Fair Is a Great Trumpian Disaster

The Great American State Fair Is a Great Trumpian Disaster Mark Brody Thu, 07/02/2026 - 01:16

Opinion: How Trump’s Very First Rally Eerily Foreshadowed His July 4 MAGA Takeover

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersOn Saturday night, Donald Trump will take over the National Mall to turn the nation’s 250th birthday party into a celebration of himself.“We are going to host the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all, a ‘TRIBUTE TO AMERICA,’” he announced on Truth Social.The event—which is to end with what Trump is hyping as the “largest fireworks show in history”—will be the most grandiose of the 80-year-old’s self-celebrating rallies, whose history now stretches back nearly four decades.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Trump scrambles to exaggerate pitiful crowd size at Great American State Fair event

Stepping back, it’s worth appreciating the fact that the president is doing something inherently difficult: screwing up simple ceremonial duties. The post Trump scrambles to exaggerate pitiful crowd size at Great American State Fair event appeared first on MS NOW.

'I went to Donald Trump's new $14M Reflecting Pool, and 1 thing surprised me’

EXCLUSIVE: After months of Trump boasting and bragging about how wonderful the new Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would be, and then week of algae-filled chaos, I took a trip to Washington, D.C. to see what the fuss was all about

Trump's America 250 Celebration Was One for the History Books

Trump's America 250 Celebration Was One for the History Books

‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks

Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public landsJerry Bransford, a former US National Park Service (NPS) ranger, has always had a deep connection with the land he grew up on – and the land hundreds of feet below it. His great-great-grandfather, Materson “Mat” Bransford, was one of the earliest explorers of Mammoth Cave in south-central Kentucky, the largest known cave system on the planet.But for decades, Mat wasn’t paid for his work. Enslavers rented him out for 100 a year to a man who wanted to turn the site into a tourist attraction – what would later become Mammoth Cave national park. Continue reading...

Trump purges an election agency

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is purging a federal elections commission. What’s happening? This is not the Federal Election Commission being purged, but rather the []

Trump Vents Growing Frustrations With Reflecting-Pool Problems

President Trump poured out his frustrations with the problems plaguing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying that multiple people had been arrested and it would likely need to be drained for repairs. The reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has been plagued by algae and a coating that is sloughing off after a recently completed 14.7 million renovation that was part of the president's project to beautify the nation's capital. On Saturday, Trump blamed the problems on vandals, who he said cut and poured corrosive chemicals into the pool.

News24 | Pool-itical disaster: Trump threatens jail time for algae, peeling paint vandalism

US President Donald Trump threatened jail time for anyone seeking to damage one of his signature renovation projects, the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, whose overhaul has become a political flashpoint.

Felon Donor Scores Lincoln Memorial Deal

A felonious Trump donor just landed a 1.7 million no-bid contract at one of America’s most sacred sites, and the federal story behind it should make every taxpayer stop and stare. Story Snapshot A company tied to convicted felon and Trump donor John J. Cafaro won a 1.7 million no-bid deal to fix the Lincoln []

Trump ruins everything

While the reality TV version of Donald Trump would have put on the best semiquincentennial celebration ever, the real one is putting on a combination of banal partisan rally and D- underfunded county fair: I stopped by the Great American State Fair on Tuesday. The website listed the day’s theme as “Innovation, Technology Progress.” [] The post Trump ruins everything appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

Trump Threatens Prison for Damage to Reflecting Pool

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened jail time for anyone seeking to damage one of his signature renovation projects, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, whose overhaul has become a political flashpoint. Trump brought in contractors to drain the pool and repaint it “American flag blue.” But soon after completion of the work, the []...Click to read more

NYT: The Don Cut Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit...

NYT: The Don Cut Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit... (First column, 3rd story, link) Related stories:America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump's presidency testing how far it's come...Fuming President Unravels Over His Empty Fair in Early Morning Meltdown...Family First... Drudge Report Feed needs your support! Become a Patron

Trump's Great American State Fair is "kind of rubbish"

Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, that 16-day celebration of all things America currently underway at the National Mall, kicked off this weekend not with a bang, but with something more akin to a whimper. The fair, which Jason Weisberger here at Boing Boing likened to a Spirit Halloween installed inside a failing megachurch, is currently limping along, according to many of the hilarious eyewitness accounts from folks who have suffered through a visit so that we don't have to. — Read the rest The post Trump's Great American State Fair is kind of rubbish appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Gavel: Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool caught in legal crossfire

A multifront legal battle is intensifying over the Trump administration's controversial overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, with arrests for alleged vandalism colliding with scrutiny of the renovation. President Trump shared plans in late April to repair and renovate the 2,028-foot landmark on the National Mall, describing it as “terrible” and “filthy” and promising the project...

Why would anyone vandalize Trump's Reflecting Pool?

President Donald Trump called Monday for those he accused of vandalizing the newly renovated, and now quickly deteriorating, Reflecting Pool on the National Mall to face serious criminal charges that could result in lengthy prison sentences. In a Truth Social post, the president lamented the state of the pool, which he said had been “vandalized.” “Please remember that there is a 10 year prison sentence for the destruction, or even the attempted destruction, of such things - Which will be fully enforced!” Trump wrote. Watch 24/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https://bit.ly/4eIvlTr #Trump #ReflectingPool #News

America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump’s presidency is testing how far it’s come

The 250th anniversary of America’s liberation from a king kicked off with a campaign-style rally on the National Mall by President Donald Trump, whose face already stares down from banners fluttering from federal buildings across the nation’s capital. The images illustrate how the Republican president has dominated daily life since returning to power and, to [] The post America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump’s presidency is testing how far it’s come appeared first on Loonie Politics.

Federal Judge Drops Case Against Leaders of the Proud Boys

Trump pardoned the convicted criminals who were sentenced because of their actions on January 6, 2021. Those who committed the most serious crimes were accused of seditious conspiracy and did not receive a pardon. They are leaders of the Proud Boys, a group of right wing extremists. They were later pardoned by Todd Blanche. CNN []

Donald Trump Brought In $2.2 Billion In Revenue, MAGA Voters React BIGLY

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Donald Trump and his family are using the presidency to enrich themselves, but his recent disclosure revealed just how much money he's raking in, and it's not sitting well with his voters.

People at Obama's Presidential Library Asked to Name His Greatest Accomplishment and LOL (WATCH)

People at Obama's Presidential Library Asked to Name His Greatest Accomplishment and LOL (WATCH)