Trump disputes his own Justice Department's findings on Reflecting Pool

DRAINED. Visitors to the Lincoln Memorial walk near the drained Reflecting Pool, following renovations and Independence Day celebrations, in Washington, DC, USA, July 30, 2026.

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US President Donald Trump says, 'I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM.'

US President Donald Trump posted on Saturday, August 1, that he disagrees with his own Justice Department’s findings that a flawed installation, not vandalism, caused the lining of the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., to peel.

“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM.”