Trump’s slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to ingenuity of its creation

By: Jennifer Tucker

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: August 8, 2026

Words: 1,389

Last Updated: 1 week, 3 days ago

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In the latest twist in one of the strangest ongoing scandals in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced that the government would be dropping charges against the four people accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the 2,000-foot long water basin that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument. Pirro said faulty construction — not vandalism, as President Donald Trump had claimed — caused …

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