Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://mypepack.gophersport.com/video/?vid=C5gO9SUDePe Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Trump challenged over claims paint peeling off Reflecting Pool is due to sabotage [TpEOEthlHMm] Health Updated on August 06, 2026 EDT — Published on August 06, 2026 EDT Donald Trump furiously blamed “vandals” for the growing mess that has overtaken his project to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday. At an unrelated White House event, a reporter asked Trump about the ongoing state of the pool. The structure, which is the length of multiple city blocks, has been under renovation for weeks after Trump decided to drain the pool and had the surface spray-painted with an aqua blue coating used in swimming pools. Photos and videos over the past week have shown chunks of that coating separating and floating up to the surface amid a swamp-green mess of algae that National Parks Service employees are desperately battling. Watch more on Independent TV: The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking newsbrand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded. Subscribe: Find us on social: TikTok / Instagram / X (Twitter) / Facebook / Download the iOS & Android app: Sign up to our newsletters: Help to support truly independent journalism. Every dollar you contribute will directly fund additional special reports and investigations from a free-thinking, award-winning newsroom you can trust: W5uU1DAsUoB 0XJRaKt74aF Wy07jLzTLj8 nJDC4SOuQxe 2qOic6L5ahl 9IJvClb8NxZ
Donald Trump furiously blamed “vandals” for the growing mess that has overtaken his project to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday. At an unrelated White House event, a reporter asked Trump about the ongoing state of the pool. The structure, which is the length of multiple city blocks, has been under renovation for weeks after Trump decided to drain the pool and had the surface spray-painted with an aqua blue coating used in swimming pools. Photos and videos over the past week have shown chunks of that coating separating and floating up to the surface amid a swamp-green mess of algae that National Parks Service employees are desperately battling. Watch more on Independent TV: The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking newsbrand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded. Subscribe: Find us on social: TikTok / Instagram / X (Twitter) / Facebook / Download the iOS & Android app: Sign up to our newsletters: Help to support truly independent journalism. Every dollar you contribute will directly fund additional special reports and investigations from a free-thinking, award-winning newsroom you can trust: W5uU1DAsUoB 0XJRaKt74aF Wy07jLzTLj8 nJDC4SOuQxe 2qOic6L5ahl 9IJvClb8NxZ