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Trump boasts over his new renovation project at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool: ‘It will be much more beautiful’
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President Donald Trump has boasted over his new renovation project at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool as part of his social media frenzy Thursday evening.
“We were told it was going to take YEARS to do this job, and it will take a fraction of that time, at a fraction of the cost — and it will be much more beautiful than the day it was built!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The reflecting pool has become one of the most iconic sites of Washington, D.C. It was completed after the Lincoln Memorial’s dedication in 1922. The reflecting pool was previously closed for renovations for two years and reopened in 2012.
Trump announced his plans to “fix” the reflecting pool with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum last November.
“You won’t be seeing this Biden filth and incompetence much longer!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, alongside a black-and-white video of the pool, edited to highlight green water.
Trump has turned the beautification of the White House and the D.C. area into his passion project.
He has demolished the East Wing of the White House for his estimated $400 million ballroom, paved over the Rose Garden for a new patio and redesigned the Palm Room and bathroom attached to the Lincoln Bedroom.
The president also wants to build a massive “Independence Arch” near the Arlington National Cemetery and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, which Trump’s name is now attached to symbolically. The Center is set to close for two years of renovations.
Trump had a very active night on Truth Social, boasting about his latest renovation project while also threatening Tehran during the two-week ceasefire in his war with Iran.
The president bashed The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board for writing that Trump has declared “premature victory” in Iran.
“Actually, it is a Victory, and there’s nothing ‘premature’ about it! Because of me, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON and, very quickly, you’ll see Oil start flowing, with or without the help of Iran and, to me, it makes no difference, either way,” Trump wrote.
Trump later accused Iran of doing “a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not the agreement we have!”
The strait typically carries about a fifth of the world’s oil, but after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran nearly six weeks ago, the country effectively closed the waterway.
When Trump announced the U.S.-Iran ceasefire Tuesday, he said it was contingent on Iran agreeing to the “COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.”
Trump also blasted prominent MAGA media figures Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones, who have all criticized his war with Iran.
“They think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote.
Trump then railed against former President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats for their immigration policies after a Haitian immigrant allegedly beat a woman to death with a hammer at a convenience store in Florida.
The immigrant, Rolbert Joachin, confessed to the murder, the Tampa Bay Times reported, citing a police report. The Homeland Security Department said Joachin was an “illegal alien.”
“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way,” Trump wrote.
