Oh, my gosh, CNN is onto the big scandal.
It isn't the fraud in Minnesota or multiple other states. It isn't the children trafficked over the border under the Biden administration that they failed to track.
It's the algae in the Reflecting Pool.
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Our sister site, Townhall, reported that CNN was actually doing an investigation into the algae in the Reflecting Pool after the Trump administration repaired it. They even went to the trouble of testing it to determine that yes, the algae was...wait for it...algae.
🚨 UPDATE: CNN is being RIPPED for running a full-fledged "independent" investigation into the color of the Reflecting Pool, as if it's a scandal
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 17, 2026
...CNN is digging deeper into water color than they dug into:
- Hundreds of billions of fraud, a large portion of which is committed… pic.twitter.com/JCmhCZ3F2W
Talk about peak CNN being CNN.
One has to wonder where they were all the years that it has been left a mess. Did they even make a peep about that? How about Barack Obama spending $34 million without resolving the issues? But what is this about other than trying to own the president for actually cleaning and repairing the pool?
However, the problem with their story — besides it being silly — is that it's already being fixed, as the Department of the Interior explained. They said it was part of the normal startup process, and nanobubblers would help maintain it.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool appeared to turn green after algae spread more than a week after $14.2M renovations were completed.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 17, 2026
An Interior Department spokesperson said the residual algae is part of the "normal startup process" and they are removing it. "Nanobubblers… pic.twitter.com/J4gGrMxmEP
D.C. reporter Emily Miller confirmed the nanobubble use and that the pool was being fixed with its installation.
EXCLUSIVE: Why the Lincoln Reflecting Pool is GREEN
— emily miller (@emilymiller) June 15, 2026
I’m the only reporter with scoop on what caused the algae bloom over the weekend and how it is being fixed. Watch! pic.twitter.com/EkOvWtVsIQ
It's a pool, CNN, and any other media that want to go all in on being silly. It's going to require occasional maintenance and adjustment after being such a mess. But now, it's no longer leaking like a sieve.
This is what some were even doing when it was blue before this algae development, as Miller reported.
There is a pro algae protest of three at the Lincoln Reflecting Pool. We’ve reached peak circus. pic.twitter.com/bmOrqThgm7
— emily miller (@emilymiller) June 17, 2026
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The Department of the Interior posted about how it was being addressed.
The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening—most infamously Obama's reopening—since 1922.
— U.S. Interior Press (@interiorpress47) June 18, 2026
The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the… pic.twitter.com/ZuCs0pmnxD
They said the dead algae would be vacuumed up over the next few days.
You can also see the machine and the security after there was an "86 47" graffiti threat in the pool.
🚨 NOW: The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is under INCREASED National Guard and Park Police patrol amid leftist threats to sabotage the pool
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 18, 2026
American workers are pushing AROUND THE CLOCK to finish the pool by July 4, but liberals have a vested interest in destroying it for… pic.twitter.com/Ha43N4HSzQ
Bottom line? It got a major repair, and they've made a permanent change to maintain it. Leftists who want to damage American property to attack Trump are nuts. The folks on the left and in the media will try to criticize no matter what, because it's Trump, and that's what they've been doing for more than ten years.
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