President Trump and his administration have been doing a lot since the president resumed office in January 2025. They've been restoring our military and making trade deals, not to mention dragging Venezuela's dictator into an American courtroom and kicking Iran's teeth in.
But that's not all the president has been focused on. Early on, he sent a surge of law enforcement into the nation's capital to clean up the city's prime problem, and he has also set people to work making the District of Columbia beautiful again. Part of that is cleaning up the mess in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which had begun to look like a backwater of the Okefenokee. Democrats and the far left (but I repeat myself), who are all in the throes of Stage IV Trump Derangement Syndrome, are opposing even these efforts.
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Trump Decimates Reporter Over Ridiculous Question About Reflecting Pool Cleanup
This latest incident, though, in which a certain news image service describes something being applied to the pool as "paint," may probably be attributed to carelessness and/or ignorance, rather than malice.
Workers use pressurized hoses to spray blue paint onto the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington, DC.#GettyVideo 🎥 @somogettynews 👉 https://t.co/scCW812JD1 pic.twitter.com/6zWehySgsY
— Getty Images News (@GettyImagesNews) May 29, 2026
It's not paint, and we've known for some time what it was; the New York Post reported on this on Monday.
Crews were seen rolling out a striking blue coating across the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Saturday as a major renovation project is transforming the iconic water basin between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
Workers in hard hats and high-visibility vests lined the drained basin, applying the vivid surface as equipment and utility vehicles idled nearby.
The renovation is part of a broader push by President Donald Trump to “beautify” the nation’s capital under a federal initiative aimed at restoring monuments and public spaces.
OK, now, we are none of us perfect. But one would think that, when releasing a photo of crews applying some substance to a national landmark, a national news organization would at least bother to find out what the stuff was. That's just carelessness.
The White House Rapid Response 47 X account, living up to its name, was quick to clap back.
It’s not paint, morons https://t.co/9imLuCWv3w
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 29, 2026
A bit rude? Maybe. Accurate? Well, they did get something badly wrong that would have taken only seconds to confirm. A Google search on a smartphone, right there on the scene, would have told them - or they could have just asked one of the workers, "Hey, guys, what's this blue stuff you're putting down?"
Incurious and careless. That sure seems to summarize too much of our national media today.
The work goes on, regardless. And it should go on. This is the national capital of the greatest nation on the planet. It should inspire awe in every person, American or foreigner, who visits it. It should be pristine, beautiful, and amazing. And in large part, all it really needs is a right good cleaning-up.
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