As arrests for vandalism of Trump’s Reflecting Pool project raise fresh questions, TNR editor Michael Tomasky explains how this saga captures the unhinged, dictatorial nature of his presidency.

The president also insisted that just a "small area" of the pool has been affected despite images showing otherwise.

The president on Friday night without evidence blamed vandals with chemicals for the extensive problems at the newly reopened Reflecting Pool.

‘They've also done everything possible to hurt the inside surface that was just installed.’

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His vaunted makeover of the Washington attraction has resulted in an algae bloom and peeling paint

President Donald Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism.

President Donald Trump claimed Saturday, without providing evidence, that vandals damaged the algae-plagued Reflecting Pool on the National Mall and that the water will need to be…

President Donald Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism

WASHINGTON (AP) — The paint is peeling from Washington's Reflecting Pool after the renovation ordered by President Donald Trump, and he is now alleging that someone damaged it…

The paint is peeling off the US president’s US$14 million renovation project, following attempts to get rid of clouds of algae in the water.

Trump addresses problems at renovated Reflecting Pool.

President Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made "multiple arrests" of people he said were vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as…

Donald Trump says federal authorities have made "multiple arrests" of people he said were vandalising the Reflecting Pool, as he struggles to explain why the multi-million-dollar…

Paint seen peeling off in the water at pool site; investigation finds ICE agents disproportionately target people from Latin America – key US politics stories from Saturday 20…

President Trump said more people have been arrested for vandalism of the Reflecting Pool, which now likely needs to be drained and repaired again.

Trump acknowledged in a post that the Reflecting Pool will need to be repaired, yet again, to restore it to "an equal level of Beauty” as before.

Trump acknowledged in a post that the Reflecting Pool will need to be repaired, yet again, to restore it to "an equal level of Beauty” as before.

A three-time Olympic canoeist said he was arrested Friday after he said he reached into the pool to touch the new “American flag blue” coating that has begun to peel off.

Trump says additional arrests have been made for vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, including a 250-foot gash.