I Can't Believe He Posted This

0:00 Donald Trump's reflecting pool looks like [ __ ] and he is just going to post his way through it. He is going to complain, to whine, to beg you to not believe your lying eyes and make some of the weirdest AI slop that I have ever seen because that that is what we need to be focusing on right now. We got to be focusing on the reflecting pool. And do you know what, Donald? Bring as much attention to it as you would like. It is a perfect representation of your presidency. Overpromise, underd deliver, cost too much, be behind schedule, and ultimately just have [ __ ] spraying out over Washington DC. And that is what we are seeing right now on day four, five, six of poolgate. And it's where I want

0:46 to start before we get to what Donald Trump posted about his reflecting pool, which really just goes to show his current mental state and how he's dealing with his favorite pet project going wrong. As we can see right here, >> well, a bit. Yeah. So, I want I just want you to see this just what you were describing a minute ago. We've been very careful here not to pull at this cuz we don't want to, you know, make anything worse. But this is just a loose flap of what appears to be that sealant down here in the water. Just flapping like that. There have been tourists coming along tearing off pieces to take as souvenirs. Now, did they cause this problem? I don't know. Maybe. Uh, did they exacerbate it? Maybe. Um, and we don't have proof exactly that that is the sealant we're talking about, but it sure looks like it. And the progress on the algae out here, they are working

1:32 very hard and it is very slow. They're pumping oxygen into the water in form of ozone to try to break up the chemical process that forms these algae blooms very commonly this time of year in Washington DC. And they're using these sort of uh water vacuums out here, hydro hydro vacuums to suck up a lot of the green algae, but we don't know. It could be forming again behind them because it's basically microscopic in spore form. What we do know is that all the tourists who are coming by are seeing a lot of it. Listen to what they say. >> It looks bad. I just see green green slime. >> Pouring all that peroxide into it clearly didn't help. >> I feel for the ducks. >> It looks awful. It looks god awful. Like

2:20 this is truly a display of incompetence that is so symbolic of the Trump presidency. There is nothing that he can't [ __ ] up and there's nothing that he can't unnecessarily insert himself into. Like Donald Trump did not need to change the reflecting pool. It was fine, but he wanted it to be American flag blue. He wanted to not beautify it as he has claimed so often with his projects around DC and of course the building of his ballroom. It's not about beautifification. It's about Trumpification. And there's nothing more Trump than not only making something worse, but breaking it and then just moving on and telling us it's all fine. But it's not fine. It's not just algae sitting in the middle of our national monuments. No, it's also spewing

3:07 everywhere as they try to fix it and fail. I want to take a look at that and some of the reporting, but also I want you to know the backstory behind this that we're going to look at in a post before we get to what Trump said. And I do want to show you this is the output from what's going on over there. And you can see it is clearly green. This is the water that the federal officials are saying is absolutely clear and and perfect at this point. It very clearly is not. It takes no walking around at all here to see all the debris in the water, the continued presence of algae. Can they get it under control? Maybe they can, but currently they do not have it under control. and whether they can get it done by July 4th, we'll see.

3:52 >> Midas Todd shared a little backstory on the reflecting pool, writing, "The 1.7 million no bid contract to clean the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool went to a company ultimately owned by Trump donor John J. Kafaro, who previously pleaded guilty in separate federal cases involving bribery and campaign finance violation. The company's name that did the reflecting pool was Greenwater Services. You literally cannot make this up. Greenwater Services took care of the reflecting pool. Greenwater Services. And you know what? They lived up to their billing because yes, that that is some pretty

4:39 green water. And of course, it was going to be a Trump donor. That's why it's always so funny when he's like, "Oh, these are gifts to America." No, Donald Trump is just enriching himself and the people around him because it is the only thing he knows how to do. And the only point of the presidency is to be the most profitable business possible for Donald Trump. It is the only profitable business he has ever run because he can't even paint a pool correctly without creating an environmental catastrophe. So, what would lead anyone to believe that he could maintain properly a property or have success anywhere else? This is the encapsulation of Donald Trump's presidency, especially because what he has posted in the wake of all of this only a few minutes ago sharing this video on Truth Social. So, Donald Trump

5:26 just posted this on Truth Social. Uh, very weird. It's him with a hose, I guess, taking water out of a out of a fishbowl on the head of a of a li. I I don't know. But watch this. Weird, weird, weird AI slop from Donald Trump. But who is surprised? He is posting through it all, trying to make himself feel better and owning the libs. Like, is that is that what this is about? It's about owning the libs, creating an environmental catastrophe, and ruining your own project to own the libs. It's like supposed to make us feel bad. I don't really get it. Like I I don't I don't get how this is a dunk on

6:11 us. Even if it went well, I I don't I don't know how it's a dunk on us. Republicans are constantly claiming, and this is something that's really irked me recently, that Donald Trump wants to rebuild what is beautiful about America, right? He wants to bring back art and culture and and the things that are lovely and pleasing to the eye. And that we need more of that, a focus on that. In fact, actually, why aren't people going to school for that? for for arts, for liberal arts. Huh? It's almost like you spent two decades vilifying those very jobs, those very artists, and now you're begging for America to look beautiful and not like an ugly Trump hotel. But Donald Trump isn't beautifying anything. Like I said, he's trumpifying it and making it worse. And

6:59 all at the same time, Republicans are trying to spin that that's not the case. But also completely projecting out Donald Trump's own insecurity when talking about the opening of the presidential library, Don, I should say, Barack Obama's presidential library yesterday, which of course made Donald Trump freak out. And Laura Trump say this. I want to come back to the reflecting pool in Fox. So do stick around, but listen to the projection right here. >> And and yet it looks like that Google points out. Yeah, it's the whole thing from start to finish has kind of been a disaster, right? It's ugly to look at. It's overbudget. The taxpayers are are footing the bill apparently for parts of this and then they had to open the ceremony with this, you know, performative morality, virtue signal. Um, it's, you know, when I think about

7:47 what I would want a legacy as president to look like, I think about the Trump presidential library, which many people have probably seen the videos of. It looks amazing. It's going to be fantastic down in Miami. Beautiful. Um, but you know, whenever I'm thinking about what might be in there, I wonder if the Obama library will highlight the way that Obama had people spy on Donald Trump as a civilian during the 2016 presidential campaign, or are they saving that for the Biden library when they talk about the weaponization of the Department of Justice to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president again? I'm just waiting to see what happens here. >> Those would be interesting exhibits. I would definitely go to those, Emily. >> Yeah, there should be one. I wonder about the um highest prosecutions of journalists in history under the Obama administration. I wonder if that will

8:32 have its own wing. Yeah, there's a there's a lot left to be uh determined and likely desired. Here's the thing, and I've said this before. >> Are you kidding me? Donald Trump's reflecting pool is over budget, is being paid for with taxpayer dollars, looks like [ __ ] isn't going well. when they are describing the Obama library, which looks great. It seems like it's going to be a huge value ad to the community because there's a public library there. There's learning centers. There's a basketball court where I hope to get shots up one day. Maybe Barry, hey, if you're listening, I don't know why you would be, but Mr. President, if you'd like to get if you'd like to get some shots up with me. I I I don't want to speak out of turn here, but I just I feel like you can't guard me. Respectfully, love you, but that that's a challenge. This is me trying to play

9:19 to the competitor in you and hope I don't know why I'm speaking to Barack Obama. I don't know if he's listening, but if he is, let's let's get some shots up. But they are just completely projecting. The library looks great. It's going to be great for the community. It looked like an awesome time yesterday. People were having fun. Steven Cob Bear with a tan suit. Great trolling. I loved it. But that that that is that is an actual success story. It's not the pool. It's not the environmental catastrophe that Donald Trump has created. And so, of course, it is total projection. But what else do we expect from literal state media, the Fox propaganda outlet? We expect nothing but them to lie. And to tell you, don't believe your lying eyes. Just take a look at this nonsense. I'm here at the newly renovated

10:05 reflecting pool. It's painted American flag blue. And the Democrats, they're going to tell you, "Oh, there's green algae. It looks so bad." But there's pool guys cleaning it up right now. No other president would do that. But President Trump is still cleaning it up. How is the reflect the reflecting pool is great. Do not believe the libs. Do not believe them saying it's green. I know it's green behind me, but there's a pool guy. It's not a pool. I know it's a reflecting pool. It's not a swimming pool. Like the pool guys clearly didn't work. They put the wrong paint in. They're like throwing chemicals in and the pe the paint is peeling up. Like it's not a pool. It's just it's not they've misunderstood this. Do you know what this is kind of like to me? This is kind of like when Republicans say that we need the

10:50 government to run like a business. Actually, we don't because the government is not a business. It's a government. And a business is a business. And the reflecting pool is not a swimming pool. It's a reflecting pool. And it's different. And so when you bring in the businessman, it doesn't work. And when you bring in the pool guy, it doesn't work because things are different things. But Republicans, cuz they're [ __ ] stupid, can't really seem to grasp that now, can they? And so they'll tell you that this is what we need and the pool guys taking care of it. And the libs want to use the government to actually improve people's lives. How terrible. Maybe we bring in the failed businessman to run the country like a failed business. And then you get failed business project. So, if that's what you voted for, congratulations. I guess you got it.

11:37 But, um, it's not a, uh, it's not a fantastic look for the rest of us. It's, in fact, humiliating. And if you want to know the real situation on the ground, Chris Hayes did a little bit more investigating. Just like with the reflecting pool in Washington, Trump hired some pool guys on a $13 million no bid rush contract to make the reflecting pool, it's not a swimming pool, it's a reflecting pool. It has like a stone bottom. American flag blue. He claimed Obama ruined it and he had to fix it. He went on and on and on and on about how good he is singularly at renovations. He compared it to skyscrapers, which makes no sense cuz they go up in the air and the reflecting pools in the ground. He talked about how amazing his reflecting pool would be for the big July 4th festivities. And now the pool is less

12:22 American flag blue and more well actually Iranian flag green. besieged by one of the biggest green algae blooms ever recorded there. According to the Washington Post's look at satellite imagery, it now looks like the Chicago River on St. Patrick's Day. Because again, as a lot of scientists could have told Donald Trump, if you checked, warm, stagnant water under the summer sun is basically club mad for algae. And if that's not bad enough, this this is really the development that I can't get over. In fact, I spent all day thinking about this, looking at these pictures. The American flag blue pool bottom is now just peeling off the bottom of the pool in large chunks. It's so bad that tourists have been

13:09 leaving with pieces of it as souvenirs. So that is part of the >> rip the whole thing up, guys. >> He's not ripping the whole thing up. Don't worry. >> We're trying to get a visual. >> Okay. So that that's good. So, that's the bottom of the pool that is now coming off. Okay. Is it supposed to do that? I don't think it's supposed to. It's been like one week. The thing is green and the paint is peeling off in big yard long stretches. We want a refund. In both these cases, the pool and Iran, there was no shortage of experts who were vocal about how Trump's ambitions were completely divorced from reality, how they would not work for all these

13:54 predictable reasons. They'll close the straight of Hormuz. You're going to get an algae bloom. You don't put polyurethane on the bottom of a reflectant pool. Trump didn't just ignore them. He has built a political movement out of attacking them. The stupid experts and their stupid expertise. The guy at the end of the bar is in charge now. He's certainly not listening to them. He is an 80-year-old narcissist who has never been failed by just doing stuff. That's the thing. He'll be fine. Just let the broken pieces fall to someone. I don't know how many more times I can say that this is so symbolic of the Trump presidency just because it it really is. But it is humiliating to me that these people think that they can lie their way out of this because just take the L. Like seriously, just just just take just take the L on this one.

14:40 It it is it is shameful. It is sad. But we are going to continue to call them out. 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