Trump Snaps Then Declares Emergency Powers

0:00 We are currently a nation in crisis. But thank God that Donald Trump is solving that crisis. And you might be saying, "What? Jack, are you are you possessed right now? Is something come over you? Are you sick?" No. Donald Trump is going after the crisis, the number one crisis that we need solved right now. And of course, it's not income inequality. It's not billionaires controlling our politics. He did not get a better deal with Iran. He didn't tackle climate change. She's not focused on racial justice because none of those things pale in comparison to the reflecting pool. Donald Donald Trump is um is invoking an emergency power right now to take care of the reflecting pool. Yep. That's the big emergency. That is the big emergency. is

0:45 Donald Trump is on the case. He is ready to focus on a pool that was supposed to be finished a week ago and and beautiful and and perfect. Um but it's not and uh and so Donald Trump is using the powers of the presidency. We're going to get into what Donald Trump announced, but first let's start with a look at how his favorite pet project has gone. It's gone really poorly. 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 reflecting pool that 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

1:33 compared it to skyscrapers, which makes no sense because they go up in the air and the reflecting pool's 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 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 he 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.

2:18 The American flag blue bottom is now just peeling off the bottom of the pool in large chunks. It's so bad that tourists have been 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 yardl long

3:03 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 predictable reasons. They'll close the straight of horn moves. 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 else. >> Wow. That looks like [ __ ] It looks terrible. That looks awful. It's

3:51 embarrassing. And is anyone surprised? If anyone in this country has the [ __ ] ability of Donald Trump, I'd like to meet them because he does stand alone in his [ __ ] ability. This is a guy who did the impossible when he bankrupted a casino. From the carpet up, that thing is designed to make money. Donald Trump said, "Hold my beer. I'm I'm gonna take care of this and I'm gonna screw it up. Donald Trump lives to ruin things and to make it our problem. That That's what he does. That is Donald Trump on the economy. That was Donald Trump on COVID. That was Donald Trump on inflation that

4:37 he created. That was Donald Trump's war. Create a problem, pretend to solve it, say it's great, have his media spin it, then move on. And we're left holding the bag. or in this case, we're left holding the algae and the blue paint that's rising to the surface. Is this not embarrassing? It is embarrassing. But again, like I said at the beginning of this video, Donald Trump is on the case because if a president wants to use their executive power for dramatic changes, that change better be the sorry the reflecting pool. That better be your focus and it's the focus of Donald Trump. Trump gives emergency status to green slime invasion. The National Park Service is urgently

5:22 seeking extra workers to fix the problem. The crisis surrounding the algaeinfested Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is mounting as the National Park Service scrambles to address the problem before the upcoming July 4th celebrations. The pool, which was renovated at a cost of around $13.1 million, it was originally supposed to be like less than two ahead of the 250th anniversary celebrations started to turn green with algae less than 24 hours after the renovations were completed earlier this month. What you are seeing is residual algae from these supply lines which have been sitting dormant for eight weeks while construction has

6:08 been taking place. A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior told the Daily Beast at the time, "It's part of the normal startup process." "We are removing the algae and nanobubblers will maintain the pool and keep it algae free." "Donald Trump is an expert builder," said the White House. He fixed the reflecting pool for good. Not really though, unlike the failed and extremely costly attempt by Barack Obama and Biden. A new report by Midas News, shout out, reveals that the government is now desperately seeking additional workers to help address the issue and has upgraded the operation to a regional and national priority. An email addressed to National Park Service employees and

6:55 reviewed by the outlet stated that officials were working on critical pre- July 4th operational needs and were seeking additional personnel to assist immediately. Specifically, workers are needed to support scrubbing and pumpout operations at the pool. They are being asked to work 12hour shifts starting this week and continuing through the weekend. The algae bloom appeared within 24 hours of the end of renovation work earlier this month. Workers have already been deployed to vacuum algae from the pool and dispense hydrogen peroxide into the water, but the algae and resulting green tint to the water have remained. The renovations were part of Donald Trump's preparation for America's 250th birthday, and it's why he wanted

7:41 American flag blue. Trump was also insensed at media coverage of his pet project, complaining on Truth Social at the Washington Post description of the renovations as a paint job. Trump wrote quite frankly, the great reflecting pool that stretches between the Lincoln Memorial and of course the Washington Monument just opened to rave reviews, but maliciously or not. Some say like the Washington Post, it was a paint job. This was not a paint job, Trump wrote. This was a highly sophisticated material that is industrial strength that could last for a hundred years. Applied by very talented people, many of them who came from the great state of Oklahoma where I won 77 out of 77 counties three times, the only president to ever do so.

8:27 He continued, "The material is thick, strong, flexible, and has a natural beautiful color, the dark blue of the American flag." I'm just going to let out a let out an exhale cuz I really don't I don't know how else to address the dumb [ __ ] that I just read. Donald Trump is invoking an emergency power to get more workers for the National Park Service to help clean up his pool. his pool that is seeing the paint peel off the bottom. So, it is no longer the color that he wants. Donald Trump is having to call on new workers for the National Park Service because Elon Musk fired so many of them at the

9:15 beginning of this term. Sorry, I had to yell that, but I didn't want to break your ears. These people are such fuckups and they take no accountability. Donald Trump hired his guys, the best guys, always the greatest guys, and they screwed everything up. And now the reflecting pool is filled with goo. It's gooilled. And Fox News is is down there saying that it looks like Turks and Caos. That is that that blue ass water. only the most blue ass water. And it's not. It looks It literally looks like [ __ ] It looks terrible. And this is Donald Trump. This though is Donald Trump. Shall we expect anything else from the

10:03 man who bankrupted a casino? His projects don't work. And he always leaves us holding the bill. I want to come back though to the fact that it is insane that Donald Trump's like, "Oh, why don't we have any people from the the National Park Service? Why? Why don't we have the number of people that we need? You fired them. You fired them. And it makes me really sad. Seeing this all projected out into other parts of our politics, like four years from now when we have a Democratic president, inshallah, like how much of the old Trump is going to be biting them in the ass? How much of what he broke is going to be biting them in the ass? Which is why it is big

10:48 structural change time. Like we just need to change things completely. We need to literally tear out everything that he has done. Rip it apart, start a new and break down so many of the other systems that have failed us that put Donald Trump in place in the first place. That is the only way to fix it. Or else we will be holding the algae bag at the end of the day. And nobody wants that. But it is just so sad that it is a a cycle of abuse that I talked about earlier today. Elect the Republican president, Republican president crashes the economy. People elect the Democratic president. If they can't fix enough stuff in time, it's starting to get better, but not fast enough. Elect the Republican president, so on and such, the cycle continues. And the only way to

11:35 break that is with real structural systemic change. big, bold, progressive action, a complete uprooting of the status quo. That is the only way to do it. Or else you are left with a pool full of algae that is an eyesore and is being cleaned up by people who should have had their jobs to begin with. That is all that you are left with. This is what Donald Trump calls an emergency. This is the emergency power. By the way, Donald Trump really steps in and says, "Let's get to the bottom of this when it's about his beautifification project." And I've said this before and it's where I want to close. And um because it is a thought that disturbs me a little bit, I am

12:20 going to and nobody get mad because it's a little late at night. I'm not showing you what's in this can, but that could be water for all you know. I'm just a little tired of this [ __ ] tonight. Um it's not water. It's okay. We're adults here. Donald Trump isn't beautifying Washington DC. He's trumpifying it. Big ballroom with the military hospital down below. His guys doing his pool, big arch, flags that are probably going to have Trump's face on them at any second. It's a trumpification process. He wants to trumpify it. He wants it to be his. He wants us to think that the government is his, that the military is his, that DC is his.

13:08 So when that all of this is done, when it's time to get him out of there, he goes, I'm not leaving. It's all me, right? I'm I'm going to stay in my bunker and I'm not going to go. It is a Trumpification process and in always possible we have to oppose it. We are certainly going to on this show. 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