Donald Trump is no stranger to playing the blame game. But in his latest efforts to deflect responsibility for the growing debacle around his renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the heart of Washington DC, the US President is taking things to another level.
Trump now maintains that “vandals” are responsible for multiple problems that have turned his obsessive refurbishment of the pool into a national embarrassment, just a fortnight before it’s due to serve as a centrepiece of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations.
In a Truth Social post on Saturday evening, Trump said that United States Park Police had “arrested multiple individuals” for vandalising the pool, which Trump’s administration controversially spent $14.2m trying to repair and paint “American flag blue”.
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“These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of national monuments. Years in jail!” Trump said.
