'Vandals' and threats of up to 10 years in prison: Trump shifts blame for failure of Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
U.S. President Donald Trump has blamed vandals for the failure of his project to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, the park surrounded by the capital’s main monuments. His ill‑fated plan to turn the pool stretching between the imposing Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument into a blue, flag‑style mirror reflecting the iconic landmarks ended up as a murky pond, where ducks navigate through green algae and flakes of paint peeling from the bottom. Several people were arrested over the weekend, while others were issued summonses for allegedly vandalizing the pool
