Trump orders immediate Reflecting Pool repairs, blaming vandals as latest excuse called 'wildest yet'

—President Trump has directed that repair work on Washington's Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool begin immediately, after the landmark became a source of political embarrassment. Trump has offered a series of escalating explanations for the pool's degraded state, including alleged vandalism — a claim that HuffPost described as his most far-fetched excuse yet. Newsmax reported Trump offered additional details on the reported vandalism, while critics on the left continued to frame the deterioration as a failure of his administration.