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Posted on 06/20/2026 7:52:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
President Trump on Saturday said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will likely have to be drained to make the necessary repairs after vandals took a knife and put a 250 foot long gash into the pool and poured corrosive chemicals in the water.
Many people have been arrested for vandalizing the reflecting pool and peeling off the paint from the bottom of the pool.
Former Olympian David Hearn was arrested and charged with misdemeanor for destruction of property for vandalizing the Lincoln Reflecting Pool.
According to independent journalist Emily Miller, a man was arrested after jumping into the pool on Friday and cutting out a “huge piece” of the sealant.
Miller also filmed a man being detained by Park Police. “He grabbed the hose that female National Park Service workers were using to clear the algae,” Miller said.
That man turned out to be cyclist and Olympian David Hearn, 67.
Hearn is a three-time Olympic canoeist.
President Trump said he met with contractors and determined that the reflecting pool will likely need to be drained to make the necessary repairs.
Full statement from President Trump:
Many additional people have been arrested having to do with the disgraceful Vandalism of our beautiful Reflecting Pool.
It hasn’t looked or worked like this since 1922, when it was originally built, but even then, it leaked badly, and didn’t work. Ours worked perfectly, including the mirror like finish, perfectly reflecting the two Great Monuments, which it never had before!
What these terrible Vandals have done is a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly. We met with contractors today, will probably be forced to release and drain much of the water in order to do the necessary repairs, but will have them done as quickly as possible.
What they have damaged does not even include the earlier killing of a large amount of grass which was, by far, the least of it. 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.
They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the Pool. The Reflecting Pool was never so beautiful as it was just one week ago, even going back to 1922 when it opened. We are very proud of what we have done with this magnificent structure, and we will get it repaired, quickly, to an equal level of Beauty. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Electric chair them.
Our enemy is relentless. Nothing Trump can stay.
How on Earth are they going to stop this in the future? I don’t how that would be possible from a practical standpoint. They are begging for a civil war the rest of the country is unwilling to fight, so this type of destruction will go unabated.
Yes
Restitution - they must work until it is paid off.
Isn't destruction of property over a certain amount of money a felony, not a misdemeanor—and especially Federal property? This is going to cost many thousands to repair. That guy and all those other wicked nutbags deserve jail time.
Not sufficient! Go "Deliverance" on them until they plead for the chair and then say NO!
Fill the pool with piranha. Maybe they’ll think twice. Better yet, don’t announce it. 🤣
DOJ must make a huge example of the punishment that awaits any copycats.
“Electric chair them.”
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Nah, too quick and not enough real time coverage to warn the others.
Public caning during the fireworks show.
That will get their attention...
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They should get the same length of sentence as those charged over Jan 6.
What these people are doing is true insurrection.
Imagine hating a POOL that much because Trump decided to make it pretty that they would vandalize it..these are the kind of vermin we are dealing with, idiots with absolutely NO life except to hate everything that Trump does, even something as simple as making a pool clean
I’m sure the Democrat-Socalists (redundant I know) think these vandals are heroes because of TDS. Personally, I’d like to see them in prison stripes doing the most uncomfortable and disgusting “community service” imaginable until the value of the repairs is paid off. Too bad we don’t have the Augean stables to clean.
Many, many years ago, before the computer age and internet, I remember seeing in some magazine I cannot remember name of, a single panel cartoon of a man with a mic attempting to interview a woman who has a scowl on he face and a little cloud over her raining down on her head.
The caption was the man saying: You must be a liberal..................
This isn't the one but it's the same subject!..........
Ya know what’s nice about Yellowstone reflecting pools. You jump in you don’t jump out. Damn! I think God is on to something.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
And you only do it once!.................
How on Earth are they going to stop this in the future?
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With rocks.
We put the leftard vandals in prisons where in the hot sun they break boulders into sand using nothing but sledge hammers. Then they load the sand into trucks using only shovels.
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