Trump says White House searching for 'vandal proof' material after alleged Reflecting Pool attack
President Donald Trump said Friday that the White House is searching for a "vandal proof material" following alleged damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C."The Reflecting Pool, so badly damaged by Deranged Vandals, has been emptied as the massive slash gets repaired. We got it through the great July Fourth Weekend.
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President Donald Trump said Friday that the White House is searching for a "vandal proof material" following alleged damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C."The Reflecting Pool, so badly damaged by Deranged Vandals, has been emptied as the massive slash gets repaired. We got it through the great July Fourth Weekend. What kind of animals would do such a thing?" the president wrote on Truth Social."We are looking for a Vandal Proof material, but such a thing should not have been necessary. The Scum in Court will hopefully be prosecuted to the MAX," Trump added.There have been multiple arrests in relation to the alleged vandalism of the basin, with Trump saying in late June that "they took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250-foot-long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete," and that "they also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the pool."LINCOLN MEMORIAL REFLECTING POOL DRAINED AGAIN AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESUMES REPAIRSTrump ordered a restoration project for the Reflecting Pool earlier this year as part of his effort to refurbish D.C.
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- President Donald Trump said Friday that the White House is searching for a "vandal proof material" following alleged damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C."The Reflecting Pool, so badly damaged by Deranged Vandals, has been emptied as the massive slash gets repaired. We got it through the great July Fourth Weekend.
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