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Stop repeating what a liar says. There are no vandals.

Donnie channeling his inner Crazy Uncle Rudy. Again. "We've got lots of theories. We just don't have the evidence."

Poppycock

Both. Trump has his fixations and much of the rest comes from underlings trying to earn favors.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂

That is actually fully hilarious. There's that hubris again that also requires you blame others for your own shortcomings & incompetence. Again, intelligence would have required a measured plan for the entire endeavor knowing all factors involved vs my pool guy's great! Now we have more garbage.

His corrupt "refurbishment" by some mob slacker, that's the story.

Thankfully, you aren't journalists, so you feel no need to tell the truth about any of this. It must be very convenient to just parrot the President all the time.

So he wants the slush fund for the vandals/criminals at the Capitol on January 6th. But wants to prosecute a man who touched the liner in the reflecting pool. What isn't crazy about that??

Full banana republic you have there. Congrats.

Trump always had to blame someone, vandals, Biden, Obama, Donald Duck it never ends.

Given you republish Trumpian accusations without substantiation, might I suggest an update to your masthead.

Bezos Daily Star says what?

Ah yes. Algae vandals. Notorious for walking around with algae in their pockets. Cuz that’s definitely a thing.

Trump is lying about people sabotaging the pool because he paid some crony who clearly didn’t know how to do the job right in the first place, to do it. It’s always lies to cover his administrations blunders.

Trump! Trump vandalized the reflecting pool!

Yet, if you rape children, you able to be unnamed and uncharged

Fucking goons.

Hey what’s trumps track record on accusations? What’s that record look like?

You could have explain that Trump is lying. You could play your role and live up to your duty. Or, you can make boss bezos happy.

Anything to not blame the Ahole for the mess he's made

There are no fucking vandals. Stop.

And Trump is full of shit

Sooo, this fkrs focused on arresting anyone who says anything bad about him, and someone who touched the water that his contractor fkd up, but not lowering gas and food prices, or stopping a war he started? Sounds Friday.

How about an edit-- WITH ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE, Trump has accused vandals...to cover up his own glaring incompetence.

I love the smell of SCAPEGOAT in the morning 😒😒😒

Good thing he didn’t demolish the East Wing of the White House.

Touching the reflecting pond? Oh, that’s a felony. Taking massive kickback? That’s good business

I guess the malpractice by the contractor and the jugs of hypo don't count? If the lining can't stand up to being touched, it isn't a lining.

At least he didn’t smash any windows

💯 this.

meanwhile the asshold stable genius who commissioned the work is probably golfing. Stop the world, I wanna get off.

I bet this guy votes by mail too.

WGN provides context "as he seeks to deflect blame for ongoing water quality and maintenance problems stemming from a recent multi-million renovation project" WaPo: did you?

Are they planning to glue those blobs of polyurethane back onto the bottom? For like, another $15mil or so??? Hearn should be commended for cleaning trash out of the swamp!

Sweet Cannondale rig.

This is what fascism looks like.

Have they heard of the Barbara Streisand effect?

The paint is probably peeling because they dumped industrial grade hydrogen peroxide in the pool. Everyone realizes that the reflecting pool is a metaphor for this administration, right?!?!!

Even if he did, removing trash from the pool should be rewarded, not punished.

Mirror mirror on the mall. Who's the embarrassment for us all?

Cops

When are you going to report that the president is clearly psychotic and insane?

We all know who the vandal is here.

Only one person has destroyed government property, and it ain't David Hearn. Why don't you figure out who hired the idiots that *refurbished* the Reflecting Pool? Why don't you look at who destroyed the South Lawn with the private UFC event? Why don't you look at who destroyed the East Wing?

Did he do this too? Oh, wait that was…….. bsky.app/profile/meid...

Arresting someone for a misdemeanor??? Those USPP officers know better!

I'm reading David Hearn is a Canadian...if so, that should go over like a lead balloon with our neighbors.

federal judges must really enjoy having their time wasted

Tramp is already saying the algae is an act of vandalism 🤬🤬🤬He’ll say anything to avoid accountability.

But demolishing the East Wing, paving over the Rose Garden, vandalising the Kennedy Center, killing the Front Lawn and poisoning the Reflecting Pool carry no penalty....

Well, we should have seen this coming, nuts as it is. bsky.app/profile/meid...

I believe damn near everyone over our govt at the moment

The Strait of Warm Ooze

Oh, ffs.

And even if he did break off a piece of stupid paint...no way that charges actually get filed for this (which in Trump land means they definitely will)

It can't be Trump's fault, so it has to be sabotage. If it's sabotage they have to find the person or group responsible. Trumpist officials need to keep up the narrative, so they pressure the people below them to make arrests and find someone to blame. The whole show is to hide Trump's incompetence.

The government lying and arresting him for no crime is the news

But he looked like such a stand up guy!

You mean like this? bsky.app/profile/demo...

This is breaking news because it is a clear corruption of our judicial system. I mean fuck the fucking republicans.

(concrete, that is), painting when extremely hot & sunny & refilling the pool before the paint cured properly. I would guess Trump's pool buddy was guilty of ALL of the above.

Yeah stay away from the pool. It's now a legal hazard where you may be arrested for being near it at any given time. The regime has to have a fall guy to explain away why science and reality didn't bend to the God King's will. All of DC seems like just a massive legal hazard for people.

You supported Trump.

Trump own it will you?! You fucked up again. America is used to all your fuck ups! Quit before you fall asleep on the “button” an parish the world as another fuck up!

People used to be allowed to ice skate on the reflecting pool.

well, that's it then... time to abolish the Olympics

ok but maybe report how fucking insane this is

Our law officers must be horrified with what they've been asked to do!!!🤢🤮

Courts will throw that out faster than the sub sandwich caper. 🤡🥳🤡🥳🤡🥳🤡

Even their garbage is elitist. Accountability is coming.🤬

This country has become the laughingstock of the world, and the Washington Post will keep helping it become more and more ridiculous.

If you want to hang around the most dangerous city in the country then you got to accept some risk. And yes I'd consider DC the most dangerous area of the US in a legal sense. Every resident is open to being jailed at any time by the feds and have no real say. My city doesn't have NG.

Depends. Who did they vote for in 2020?

you're actually destroying the pavement by walking on it...

"U.S. Park Police officers arrested former Olympian David Hearn on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property." "Trumpian" is the new "Orwellian."

He only got $130,000, like Stormy Donny Douchebag pocketed the rest...that's why he's fighting so hard to admit it was a Complete FUBAR on contractor. He doesn't wanna give up any money.

Because arresting people is going to make their ridiculous mess go away? Wow.🙄

Look but do not touch!

Total banana republic shit - like arresting the door guards of a building that has had a cyber attack (seen that one in a Latin American dictatorship).

If he had just deficated on the walls, he might have gotten a pardon.

Is he black because you know they gotta blame everything on blacks immigrants and everything else.

He was a 3-time Olympic canoeist for the United States team. Not Canadian.

...and sue them for false arrest. Compared to what Trump did to the East Wing and the Ellipse, at this point touching that water cannot possibly make it any worse than it is.

We all to go there and fish out some paint. Let them arrest us all.

Omg!!!!

They just needed to say "We've made arrests in connection with the Reflecting Pool." Whether there was any basis to do that was not the point;.

Sniff, Sniff, PeuuuuUUUU! Reaks of desperation

Cool. False arrest.

Tell us, @washingtonpost.com, since you publish Trump's accusation in this summary post, did you ask the president for evidence to substantiate his accusation or are you just an tool for amplifying lies?

More and more Banana Republic antics every day. You people can't see the forest for the trees.

Is being arrested for touching the reflection pool not the very definition of insanity? Jeff Bezos-approved insanity.

Can we just shut down the Washington Post and be done with it? It's slow decline into garbage under Bezos is torture. #cancelcorporatenews

Quite right.

So, to be crystal clear- you attack the Capitol, try to destroy it and attack law enforcement and this administration seeks to reward you with pardons and payments. But if you touch the botched reflecting pool, you are charged with a crime. America 2026

At least letting tourists cart away slabs of the paint would be cheaper than giving an expensive no-bid contract for clean-up to yet another corrupt incompetent Trump crony!

What a fking idiot Trump is. Touching a part of the liner caused the whole pool to come apart, and it's vandalism? WAPO, I hope you're happy after ruining your own historically treasured newspaper to please a nutcase who is ruining the entire country. Congrats.

MAGAt regime desperate for news that'll overshadow Iran Epic Failure, Strait of Hormuz closure, Epstein files, 🍊💩's insane posts, & a thousand other examples of corruption & incompetence. Look over here... we found an Olympian to arrest on bogus charges.

Authoritarian racist rapist gives no-bid contract to two time felon and then arrests Olympian for touching paint peeling off due to shoddy work of said felon after filling pool with peroxide.

Now they can go arrest the guy who is actually responsible.

Hahaha. Oh wait, you're serious

Our country is a complete farce. And the media helps perpetuate the idiocy by not calling out the idiots every single day.

And reparations

Has anyone looked inside and around the White House?? The peoples house!!! It’s been ransacked by a sex offender!!!

Pot calling the kettle green.

but they let the guy with the machete & bottle of alcohol in his bag go yesterday b/c they were “too busy”?? 🤷🏻‍♀️ to be fair idk what behavior justified a bag search so maybe neither are ok, but arresting an olympian for touching the pool (& more likely for documenting it’s destruction) is ridiculous

Sandwich Guy redux

This is gonna go the way if the sandwich guy. Where's Hearn's GoFundMe?