Trump’s false and unproven claims about the Reflecting Pool22

President Donald Trump has created a murky mess of unproven claims and provably false claims about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Trump began asserting over the weekend, without providing evidence, that the visible problems with the reflecting pool were caused by “Vandals” rather than the recent rapid repair project he had claimed would immediately make the pool “much more beautiful” than it was when it was built in the 1920s. He declared in a social media post on Saturday that until these vandals “took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade,” his version of the pool “worked perfectly.”123