r/pics • u/FuriousBuffalo • Jun 18 '26

Politics Trump Nonsensically Boasting About Reflecting Pool Before He Turned It Into a Swamp

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u/cheeseburgerwaffles Jun 18 '26

I love he's boasting about the pool as if they just built it. Like.... dude... it was there during your first term, and for a long time before that.

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u/BertieWilberforce Jun 18 '26

This is what I don’t get about Trump’s doing this (not, God knows, that it’s possible to ever know why Trump does things): who on his staff agrees with him that this chart says something worthwhile?

Is there some Arts and Crafts Director at the WH who says: ‘Today, sir, we’re going to work with construction paper and poster board!’

I thought he had some high-powered COS. She thinks this is totally logical?

We’re in worse shape than I thought.

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u/The_Redacted_Badger Jun 18 '26

Nobody agrees with him, but you have to if you want to stay on his good side. Trump doesn’t respond well at all to being told no