Late-Night TV
"If you’re like me, when you first heard the reflecting pool had algae, you probably thought to yourself, ‘I hope the president of the United States is personally involved with overseeing this'"
Jon Stewart took aim at the unsightly infestation of algae in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, questioning Donald Trump‘s inability to get the situation under control.
Before breaking down J.D. Vance’s recent participation in the negotiations with Iran, Stewart focused on the reflecting pool, feigning shock that Trump has yet again tried to fix something that isn’t broken. “The Trump administration continues to try and find a solution to an intractable, problematic waterway in a dangerous part of the world,” Stewart quipped.
After playing a series of news clips explaining that the new coating in the pool is now peeling off. The clip explained how the pool’s high phosphate levels have caused a “significant algae bloom” that turned it into “a sea of green.”
