His Pool Already Broke

0:00 Donald Trump's reflecting pool project was doomed from the start. And why? It is because everything Donald Trump touches turns to [ __ ] There is nothing that this man can't mess up. He bankrupted a casino. That is an entity designed from the carpet up to make money and he bankrupted it. So why on God's green earth did anyone think that this guy could fix the reflecting pool? especially when he was doing it with his guys. And historically, when Donald Trump brings in his guys, it doesn't go well. But it sure as hell is corrupt. And that is where I want to start before we get into Donald Trump being so sad, so tearful over the result of his

0:46 reflecting pool project being finished. It is not spectacular. In fact, the opposite. But there's a reason why. the corruption that was baked in from the start before we get to what the result is. >> When it comes to the reflecting pool, the Interior Department now says it will cost more than seven times what Trump said it would. And that was a great question from Michaela because he wanted to criminally prosecute Jerome Powell over cost overruns. Right. this reflecting pool, this little pet project, the one that he joyrode over, the one he talks about, the one he's weirdly obsessed with, it's got more than $13 million of co cost over so far. And get this, as the Times reports, you might be shocked to hear this. The bidding process for that contract looks as corrupt as you're thinking, Trump

1:32 supposedly consulted three companies that have worked on his swimming pools and ultimately picked one that worked on his national golf club in Sterling, Virginia. Essentially, Trump said he basically he knew a guy. >> I said, "You know, Doug, I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools up the road. We have a club. We have an Olympic size swimming pool. He did it 20 years ago." >> Well, if he did Trump's Olympic size pool, I'm sure he'd be great with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool built in 1922. That is very definitively not a swimming pool that you should not swim in, by the way. According to the Times, the government awarded that firm a no- bid contract last month, bypassing the requirement to seek competing offers by saying the situation was so urgent that any delay would cause serious injury to

2:18 the government. The government has not publicly said what that injury would have been. You got to love New York Times bone dry house style on that one. Now, the Trump administration says the rising costs are result of the desire to get the project done ahead of July 4th. Obviously, you need to have turquoise blue on the bottom of the reflecting pool by then. But quote, "Government documents obtained by the New York Times show the contract's current value matches down to the dollar and offer submitted to the government by the firm in the middle of last month." In other words, this is the original contract. That offer included a 20% profit margin. The documents show a 20% profit for some guy on a no big contract, $13 million, 7x toss overruns. And again, it's a small story in the

3:05 scope and scale of what Donald Trump's up to, but it's a pretty illuminating one, right? I mean, these are the kinds of no big contracts that are ripe for political corruption. That's what Trump is preoccupied with right now with prices what they are currently with no end in sight. I don't know how many Americans are thinking about refinishing their pools this summer. Maybe just Trump, perhaps all the oil CEOs who are getting filthy rich from your rising gas prices. >> There is nothing that Donald Trump does in this administration that doesn't make him a buck. I have consistently said that the presidency is the only profitable business that Donald Trump has ever run. And boy, if that isn't true. He brings in his buddies. He does favors to get a little kickback. And

3:51 none of it benefits us. All of this is for the people close to Donald Trump. You can buy access to this presidency. You can uh buy yourself a nice little government contract. The people who have donated to Donald Trump's ballroom. By the way, it's not getting constructed. And by the way, it's not a ballroom. It's a secret bunker for him to hide out and go to the hospital in. But those people have received over $50 billion in government contracts. Right? None of this is a donation. None of this is a gift to us. It has always been a vanity project for Donald Trump that he either benefits off of or profits off of. This isn't about the beautifification of the of Washington DC. This is about the Trumpification of Washington DC. And

4:38 there's nothing more Trump than a project going wrong. And that is exactly what has happened with the reflecting pool. It's turned to [ __ ] Literally, there's goose poop, there's algae, it's leaking out. Ben Myelis, in fact, made this prediction. And that video up against what we're seeing from the reflecting pool today is truly hilarious. Newswire reports, as we can see here, algae reservices just days after Donald Trump's $14 million reflecting pool renovation. And Ben Meelis made this prediction. Uh, and it's come true as we can see in a video from today. >> All those ducks and geese pooping in there and stuff. And then the algae stuff builds up so quick, especially on

5:24 these hot and humid days, you guys. But I got to tell you, before this was done, it was so bad. It was so bad before this was done. It was um it was not getting cleaned. They they weren't uh cleaning it properly in the winter time like they used to. And um this was it was it was a toxic mess before. So they're going to figure this out, but it looks it looks beautiful with the reflection. Absolutely gorgeous. And it had to happen. It was leaking all of that um all of that out the algae blooms and the um goose poop and everything. Um, it was leaking through the stones into the ground and then into the Ptoac River eventually. So, it had

6:10 to be done. It absolutely had to be done. They'll they'll figure out the filtration. So, it looks like this is the this is what they're doing for now. But like here come here come all the ducks. Here come the baby ducks. They're racing towards us, hoping that we have food. >> Yeah. >> Look at them chasing after bugs. Here they come. One, two, three, four

6:57 mama ducks over there. Then there's five. Come on, little ducks. >> What is so funny about the video that we just watched is not just that that my buddy Ben made that prediction. It was like two days ago and it came true that there was going to be algae everywhere, that this was going to be a big problem, that the project wouldn't in fact be a slam dunk. Trump wasn't hitting a home run here. No, it's just gone gone incredibly poorly. But that video that we were watching of the reflecting pool filled with little goose poops and algae and leaking and it's already green. Like Trump said that he wanted it to be American flag blue. It is now green. So

7:42 I don't think he accomplished that. But what's so funny, the funniest part of all of this is that that video was taken by a Trump supporter, broadcast live, and pitched as a huge success. That is the cognitive dissonance of MAGA, the video that you just watched. And I'm sure the whole time you're like, "God, this looks like [ __ ] It's green. It's filled with algae. This is the very thing that Donald Trump said he would fix." You're probably thinking, I'm sure that it was Jim Acasta who went down and took that video. Our friend Aaron Parnes, right? They were just at the Kennedy Center last night. So maybe they went down and snapped a few pics. No, that was a Trump supporter going down and saying, "Look at what a wonderful job Dear Leader did." Isn't this so

8:30 incredible? They literally won't believe their eyes. They look at the green algae fililled pool that opened 2 days ago. So, if you think this is the worst it's going to be, no, no, no. It's going to get a lot worse. And they say, "What a what a wonderful job. What a wonderful job, cheerleader. You You knocked it out of the park with this one. Absolutely incredible work." That is how literally blinded these people are to the failures of this administration. That they can see it, that they can smell it, you can reach out and touch it, and they still don't get it. These people are in a cult. But the cult is increasingly smaller. Right? There are always going to be the people who can actually see how terrible a Trump

9:18 project has gone. Whether it be at the reflecting pool, whether it be at the gas pump, at the grocery store, anywhere, they can see it and they say, "He did a great job. I love this." The White House could be on fire and they'd go, "I just think this is really smart and it's going to give it a nice smoky smell and it's leaving room for more renovation. Great job, dear leader." You could you could give them like a literal Trump turd and they'd be like, "Delicious. Five stars. Michelin star. I love it. More, please. Is it frozen yogurt? Is it chocolate? I like it." But again, that is an increasingly smaller portion of the MAGA population because so much, especially in a video that we talked about earlier of the Trump hypeup comes from people who are either paid to

10:05 do so or profit off of the grift. And I did a video earlier of Riley Gaines literally being fed her lines. And if you're not familiar, Riley Gaines is a transphobic MAGA influencer who Donald Trump always brings to the White House to spew transphobic [ __ ] These people are either paid or they're profiting. The money is running out for the people who are paid and the profits just aren't there because loving Donald Trump is not as profitable as it used to be. What's a little bit better for the view count? What's a little bit better for the bottom line, for the Candace Owens, you for the Megan Kelly's, for the Tucker Carlson's, what's better for those people is picking at the administration. Little gripes here and there, and there are a lot of them. There's tons. And so

10:50 what you're going to see is the people who are consuming a steady diet of magdia that's going to become anti-magdia and it's going to start to sway him a little bit. We're already seeing the fall off in the broader electorate. But with more stuff and more, I should literally say [ __ ] because there's goose poop like this, the failures of Trump, the undeniable failures, it's going to get a little bit harder for them. Especially because people just hate this generally. all the pet projects, all the passion projects, all the vanity projects. They don't like it. They don't like the ballroom. They don't like the reflecting pool. They don't like putting his name on buildings and passports and money. It's just reflected in the polls. >> You know, I'm just going to quote Michael Jordan here. Stop it. Just stop

11:36 it. The American people are saying to the president of the United States. You could see right here, Kate's laughing off there on the side. I mean, just look at this. naming government buildings after Trump acceptable right now as he is president of the United States of America just 9% just 9% literally you can put it on your two hands when you can put something on your two hands you know it's a very small section of the public my little footnote on here includes just 17% of Republicans 50% say not acceptable at all the clear plurality here and then you get this additional 21% who say you know what it's okay to put President Trump's names on government buildings but only after he leaves office. But the bottom line is this greatly unpopular President Trump or the government putting his name on government buildings. I think the American people are standing up and

12:22 applauding the fact that Trump is leaving this aside because the American people, simply put, are not with it. >> Okay. Perspective is impossible these days, but offer me some perspective, please. >> You know, I try and complete the impossible. Mission Impossible, a great television show, a great film. I like both of them. And I like attempting Mission Impossible. Okay. Americans who believe it's okay right now to name government buildings for Trump, just 9%. To put that into some perspective, 10% of Americans believe that the Earth is flat and 12% of Americans think that the moon landing was faked, which of course it was not. People don't like anything that Trump is doing. They don't like any of the projects. They don't like the nonsense. It is unpopular and it's a great message for us. This is

13:07 what he's focused on as everything gets worse for you. They're partying it up. They're living it up. It's all ugly. It doesn't help. And it's all for him. And that is a perfect metaphor for the Trump presidency that we will continue to call out on this show. And if you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video. If you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. Keep on fighting, y'all. Don't let them silence you. And until next time, I'll see you