The Reflecting Pool Fiasco: Trump's Vandal Panic Syndrome President Trump has continued to insist that the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the work of vandals, despite a lack of evidence to support his claims.
For weeks, he maintained that there were "pictures" of the destruction, but he has yet to produce them. Trump's initial response to the damage was telling.
He ordered the resurfacing of the pool with an American flag colored bottom, which many saw as an attempt to inject patriotism into a routine maintenance project.