{"id":83821,"date":"2026-06-20T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83821"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:19:44","slug":"trump-says-vandals-sabotaged-reflecting-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-says-vandals-sabotaged-reflecting-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged Reflecting Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1200\/675\/park-police-reflecting-pool.jpeg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"National Guard members walk past a National Park Service employee using a vacuum to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Friday, June 19, 2026, in Washington.\" \/>Trump&#8217;s comments come as the recently renovated reflecting pool faces scrutiny over peeling paint and algae growth just weeks after a $14.8 million restoration project was completed.\u00a0Trump accused vandals of damaging the grounds surrounding the reflecting pool and said they used chemicals to damage the pool&#8217;s newly installed surface.\u00a0&#8220;No different than the chemicals that were used on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_politics_article_main-content_article-body_6_5\">National Mall<\/a>, they used something similar in the Reflecting Pool to try to destroy and demean our beautiful work,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Trump&#8217;s comments come as the recently renovated reflecting pool faces scrutiny over peeling paint and algae growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83823,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83821\/revisions\/83823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}