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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(138,638 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 03:14 PM 3 hrs ago

Tourists Flock to Trump's Green Swamp to Witness Algae Mess

Tourists in Washington, D.C. are taking special pains to make sure a visit to the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial is on their list.

The ongoing saga of the Reflecting Pool's Trump-driven facelift has resulted in a murky green pool with paint lifting off the bottom in large sheets, revealing the bare concrete underneath.

MAGA conspiracy theorists have claimed the damage is due to "leftists" sabotaging the landmark's Trump makeover, with theories ranging from late-night fertilizer dumps to broad daylight paint stripping.

But visitors have reported seeing chunks of the paint peeling off and rising to the surface without any help from organized gangs of Trump-hating boogeymen. The Washington Post reported that a worker approached to fish out one such sheet of paint on Thursday, telling the newspaper's photographer not to take pictures of it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/tourists-flock-trump-green-swamp-200232870.html

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Tourists Flock to Trump's Green Swamp to Witness Algae Mess (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 3 hrs ago OP
Soon Trump will be bragging about the 'great ratings' the work is getting AZJonnie 3 hrs ago #1
"Mission Accomplished" then. So much attention. Bigly crowds. Wow. Sir. With tears. RockRaven 3 hrs ago #2
MAGA conspiracy theorists are among the stupidest fucking people to ever walk the earth AZJonnie 3 hrs ago #3
Oh boy! Disaster Tourism! GenThePerservering 2 hrs ago #4
Now release the Trumpstein files with unredacted PERP names! SheltieLover 2 hrs ago #5
;-{) THIS Goonch 2 hrs ago #6
How many are being arrested as vandals? orthoclad 1 hr ago #7
""Ahrrrr ahrrr! Stop... looking at it!!" B.See 1 hr ago #8
Just like Dorian Gray's mirror... some_of_us_are_sane 1 hr ago #9

AZJonnie

(4,187 posts)
1. Soon Trump will be bragging about the 'great ratings' the work is getting
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 03:24 PM
3 hrs ago

The eyeball count is way up!!!

AZJonnie

(4,187 posts)
3. MAGA conspiracy theorists are among the stupidest fucking people to ever walk the earth
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 03:30 PM
3 hrs ago

I suppose the evil leftists deployed Soros-developed cloaking technology, to avoid detection by the myriad cameras are no doubt deployed en masse in that general area?

GenThePerservering

(4,037 posts)
4. Oh boy! Disaster Tourism!
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 04:17 PM
2 hrs ago

This is really streisanding well - I don't think anyone is going to believe the 'vandalism' crock.

B.See

(9,054 posts)
8. ""Ahrrrr ahrrr! Stop... looking at it!!"
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:01 PM
1 hr ago

(Men in Black)

"Er, that's going to take a mighty big TARP, sir."

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