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Trump claims ‘pictures’ show ‘vandals’ cut a 350ft slit in the reflecting pool floor but declines to show evidence

In an entirely predictable development, when Donald Trump was just pressed by reporters to explain the flawed renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, he denied that the contractors he awarded the work to were to blame and instead insisted that “vandals” had used a knife or box-cutter to cut a 350ft “slit” in the newly applied sealant, which started peeling away from the floor and floating to the surface within days of its application.

“I can’t help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up,” the president said.

“They went in there with a knife”, Trump said, repeating a claim he first made on social media. “Five people are arrested and five people are under investigation right now,” the president added, despite the fact that the arrests that have been made appear to be of tourists or curious locals who dipped their hands into the water to collect floating bits of sealant as souvenirs of the failed renovation.

When he was asked, by Ed O’Keefe of CBS News, if he could provide any evidence that vandalism was to blame, Trump first suggested that the parks department could show reporters what he called the long gash in the sealant. Asked if there were photographs or video of vandals in the pool, Trump said “we also have pictures of it”, but said they would be revealed in court at a later date.

Trump then claimed that the growth of algae in the pool was also caused by unseen vandals. Attributing his claim to what “somebody said”, the president told reporters: “They put, somebody said, fertilizer in the water. If you put fertilizer in the water, you get algae. But somebody said they might’ve put fertilizer, they did something to create the algae.”

He went on to say that the water had now been “purified”, apparently a reference to the hydrogen peroxide workers were seen pouring into the pool last week, before at least one duckling was found dead in the water.

This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump ~~home improvement show~~ administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:

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Vice-president JD Vance is not at all mad about being snubbed by Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, before talks in Switzerland.

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Donald Trump reiterated but declined to share any evidence for his claim that “vandals” had used a knife or box-cutter to cut a 350ft “slit” in the newly applied floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which apparently started peeling away and floating to the surface within days of its application.

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Over a dozen national guard troops and federal officers detained a young woman on Monday for the apparent crime of lifting a small piece of the detached polyurethane floor covering from the surface of the pool’s water.

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Trump announced that his administration is “preparing lawsuits against ABC for false reporting” in its coverage of his baseless claim that “vandals” are responsible for the failure of his botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The legal cause of action is apparently that the broadcaster failed to report his lie that the $35.3 reflecting pool renovation during Barack Obama’s first term cost over $100m.

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Trump revealed that the outgoing UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, failed to take his advice to rip out his nation’s off-shore wind turbines and instead drill for oil.“I think he’s a lovely man, but I said, ‘You’re really messing up energy: you have windmills all over the place’”.

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Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration is “preparing lawsuits against ABC for false reporting” in its coverage of his baseless claim that “vandals” are responsible for the failure of his botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

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The president made his legal threat shortly after ABC News accurately reported on Monday night that Trump had alleged without any proof that vandals slashed a 350-ft slit in the new polyurethane covering he spent $14m of taxpayer money to cover the reflecting pool’s leaky floor.

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According to the president’s social media post, the legal cause of action is apparently that the broadcaster failed to report his lie that the $35.3m reflecting pool renovation during Barack Obama’s first term cost over $100m.

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The New York Times reported last month that a plan developed during Trump’s first term to address the reflecting pool’s leaks and its algae problem was inherited by the Biden administration but not implemented because the bids from vendors had been over $100m.

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In Trump’s post, the president also complained that ABC News had failed to include two more of his lies in its reporting: his claim that the reflecting pool “was rarely open due to leaks and stench” after the 2012 renovation was complete, which is false, and that Obama and Joe Biden “wanted to spend 300 to 400 Million Dollars” on further renovations of the pool, which is also untrue.

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In fact, according to Trump himself, the cost of more than $300m was an estimate provided to his administration before he suggested awarding a no-bid contract to a company he said had worked on a swimming pool at one of his clubs.

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On 7 May, after his motorcade drove over the surface of the drained reflecting pool, possibly damaging it, Trump told reporters: ‘We had estimates to fix it of about $355m and it was going to take three and a half years… So we’re going to be able to do it for about… $1.8m, and it’s going to take one week.”

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Asked on Monday about the resignation of Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister he has been critical of, Donald Trump revealed that his biggest regret is that the Labour leader failed to take his advice to rip out his nation’s off-shore wind turbines and instead drill for oil.

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“I think he’s a lovely man, but I said, ‘You’re really messing up energy: you have windmills all over the place, in the meantime you have the North Sea oil and they won’t let anybody drill’, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, hours after Starmer bowed to the inevitable and stepped down to make way for a more charismatic rival, Andy Burnham.

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The 2024 Labour manifesto Starmer’s government was elected to enact did indeed pledge “to double onshore wind, triple solar power, and quadruple offshore wind by 2030” and “not issue new licences to explore new fields” in the North Sea, “because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure, and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis”.

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As the BBC explained last year, Trump’s obsessive hatred for wind turbines, which he calls, mistakenly, windmills, began with his quixotic battle to stop the installation of 11 turbines off the coast of an Aberdeenshire golf course he owns.

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In 2015, a week after Trump infamously called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” at a campaign event, five justices at Britain’s highest court rejected his attempt to prevent the offshore windfarm being built within sight of his golf course.

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A decade later, the turbines were visible to reporters who followed Trump to Scotland when, as president, he held a promotional event for a new course at his resort, dedicated to himself.

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The president, or an aide, posted an image of one of the protesters, a woman in an inflatable pink frog costume holding up a banner that read: “First they came for the algae”. The post then noted that the reference in the phrase on the banner is to a famous passage from a speech made by Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor, in 1946, to lament that he had not spoken up against the Nazis before it was too late.

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The post on Trump’s account first suggests that the pro-algae protester is “likely paid”, repeating a familiar claim for which he has presented no evidence, and then notes:

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While the slogan on the banner clearly is a reference to Niemöller’s famous lament, and Trump, or his ghostwriter, might intend to suggest that the protester is making light of the Holocaust, they seem not to realize that invoking Niemöller, who was a political prisoner from from 1937 to 1945, is clearly a way to equate Trump to the Nazis.

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The president’s annotation of the Niemöller reference also leaves out the fact that the first part of the text, which came from remarks in multiple speeches the former prisoner made during a lecture tour of Allied-occupied Germany in 1946, refers not to the rounding up of Germany’s Jews, but of its communists or socialists.

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To bolster his claim that “vandals”, not shoddy work by his hand-picked contractors, are responsible for chunks of newly applied sealant floating on the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Donald Trump pointed to a handful of arrests that have been made at the site.

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Video from the water’s edge, however, shows that people are being arrested for much more innocuous behavior.

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One incident on Monday, caught on video by Charlie Cotton of TMZ DC, showed a young woman dipping her hand into the pool to retrieve what looked like a small shard of the failed lining, only to be stopped by a man in a National Park Service T-shirt, who then placed her in the custody of two national guards troops.

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Before she was eventually handed what looked like a citation by a police officer, the video shows that the woman was detained by a dozen men, including more national guard soldiers, US park police officers and at least one US Marshal.

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At one stage, two of the guardsmen appeared to laugh with the woman over her arrest.

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Later on Monday, the same video journalist also spoke to a man being led away in handcuffs from the pool area by US Park Police officers. The man said that he had been arrested for “yelling at Oklahoma state troopers.”

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Asked why he was yelling at them, the man replied, “Because they’re here.” The federal takeover of policing in Washington DC is broadly resented in the city.

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When the journalist asked why he would yell at the Oklahoma officers for policing the capital, the man laughed and said, “Lick the boot. If you love the boot, lick it.”

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Donald Trump, who is fond of claiming to have set records that either do not exist, or he is nowhere near matching, told reporters on Monday that, as a result of the ceasefire in the war he started with Iran, the strait of Hormuz “is totally open” and “we took in more oil yesterday than we’ve ever, than has ever gone through the strait”.

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That is not close to true.

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Before the US-Israeli attack on Iran started on 28 February, about 50 large oil tankers crossed the strait each day, according to video collected by the ship-tracking company Starboard Maritime Intelligence.

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Two crude tankers with just under 2m barrels of oil sailed ‌through the strait of Hormuz on Monday, ship tracking data showed, and two supertankers, which can carry a maximum of 4 million barrels of crude, sailed into the Gulf through the strait, Reuters reports. One of the ships was bound for the Iraqi port of Basra.

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“I can’t help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up,” the president said.

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At the start of an Oval Office event to sign two executive orders on quantum technology, Donald Trump just welcomed some of the officials and experts standing behind his desk.

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When Trump introduced “Nobel prize-winning quantum physicist John Martinis”, he looked to his right at the silver-haired physicist and said: “Great going. Should you tell them how many years ago it was?”

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Martinis, who won the Nobel in 2025, joked that it was “about 40 years ago”.

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Trump, apparently not in on the joke, told the physicist who is in his late 60s, “and you still look good”.

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The subject of the Nobel having been raised, the president, who recently started two armed conflicts, took the opportunity to return to his grievance about not having been awarded a Nobel peace prize. “I’ve been waiting for one of them too. They don’t think eight wars in enough,” referring to his invented claim to have settled that many armed conflicts. “Even though nobody’s even done one,” he griped, inaccurately.

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A federal judge ruled on Monday that Maryland election officials do not have to comply with a demand from the Trump administration to turn over the state’s complete list of registered voters, dealing another legal setback to Donald Trump’s plan to subvert mail-in voting by asserting federal control.

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In her opinion, US district judge Stephanie Agli Gallagher, who was nominated to the court by Trump in 2019, rejected the Department of Justice’s claim that the Civil Rights Act of 1960 required states to turn over complete voter rolls as “absurd”.

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The Democratic election and voting rights attorney Marc Elias celebrated the decision in his Democracy Docket newsletter, writing:

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Donald Trump desperately wants to build a national database of voters. His plan is to have his administration control who stays on the list and who gets removed. He has issued unconstitutional executive orders to accomplish this goal, and the U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule to do his bidding.
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The problem for Trump is that his Department of Justice keeps losing cases that it needs to access this critical data. This humiliating string of defeats threatens to derail Trump’s signature plan to subvert the 2026 midterm elections.
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This morning, a federal judge in Maryland handed the DOJ its ninth defeat in a series of 31 cases the department has filed to gain access to state voter files. The DOJ has yet to win a single one. The court wrote that it “joins every court to have addressed this issue in concluding that [a state voter file] is not a record or paper that a state must produce to the United States.”
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Importantly, of the nine cases the DOJ has lost, five were decided by judges nominated by Trump.
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As the Guardian reported in May, the US Postal Service could throw the upcoming midterm elections into chaos by requiring states to provide lists of voters who received mail ballots, according to a draft rule.

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Nearly one in three Americans voted by mail in 2024, but Trump, who wants to restrict the number of voters by limiting ballots cast by mail, signed an executive order in March that prohibits the USPS from delivering ballots to any voters not on a federal list of citizens deemed eligible to vote in each state by the Department of Homeland Security.

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The USPS proposal to implement this order seeks to require states to give the postal service the names and barcodes tied to mail-in ballots for federal elections. The public will have until 2 July to comment on the proposed rule before the Trump administration can finalize it.

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Before boarding his flight home from Switzerland, the US vice-president JD Vance spoke to reporters on the tarmac and was asked if he felt snubbed by Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, when Iran’s top negotiator came into the same room as him but did not greet the American.

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“No,” Vance said. “I’ve spent a lot of time dealing with the Iranians over the last few months. Sometimes I find them extremely confusing as negotiators.

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“What I did find kind of funny is that after that initial meeting, there was this, you know, sort of social media firestorm where everybody said the Iranians are going to leave, and then we proceeded to talk to them for like the next nine hours,” Vance added. “So I would just encourage the media, mistrust a little bit what you see coming out of Iranian social media. They could be confusing negotiators, but we feel like we’re making progress.”

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Video of Iran’s foreign minister leaving the room without acknowledging Vance was indeed viewed millions of times on social media.

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The vice-president also said: “We continue to make progress on these technical negotiations. We left a lot of our team, the Iranians left a lot of their team at the resort there to keep on working at it.”

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The subpoenas were first issued in January amid a violent immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to the killings of Minneapolis residents Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good.

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As well as Tim Walz, the Trump administration issued subpoenas for Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, the offices of the state attorney general, Keith Ellison, the Hennepin county attorney, Mary Moriarty, the St Paul mayor, Kaohly Her, and the Ramsey county attorney, John Choi.

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On Monday, Walz – who was Kamala Harris’s running mate in the 2024 election – issued a statement after the ruling, saying: “The US justice department is pursuing criminal investigations into the president’s political opponents. This case was just one example of that, but we are seeing daily reminders of this administration’s lawlessness — in Minnesota and around the country. We all must continue to seek justice and uphold the rule of law.”

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A federal judge has blocked efforts to subpoena Tim Walz and other Minnesota officials, calling it an attempt to “harass and retaliate against them”, the AP reports.

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US district judge Patrick Schlitz ruled that the main purpose of the subpoenas – part of a Trump administration investigation into alleged obstruction of deadly ICE raids in the state earlier this year – was to “coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so.”

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Minnesota governor Walz said the ruling was “a victory for the rule of law and our democracy”.

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California sued the Environmental Protection ⁠Agency ⁠on Monday after the agency sent Congress landmark state vehicle emissions rules for ⁠potential repeal, Reuters reports.

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According to the EPA, waivers under ‌the Clean Air Act ‌for California environmental regulations that had been approved under prior Democratic administrations should have been sent to lawmakers ‌under the Congressional Review Act.

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However, California argued that this action was illegal and should be blocked by a federal court. The state has accused the EPA of seeking to “wave a ‌magic wand” and turn a waiver into a rule.

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Further to our earlier post about the reported arrests made and federal citations issued after the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool was allegedly “vandalized”, Donald Trump has claimed that the pool “has been given a 300 foot long gash, chemicals have been illegally placed in the water, and the beautiful new grass field has been destroyed with a gigantic 86 47 chemically carved into it.”

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It’s worth noting that on Saturday, Trump alleged a “250 foot gash” and has still not provided evidence of that, and now appears to be claiming it was actually 300 ft.

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Also, authorities have been investigating the 86 47 that was recently etched onto a vast patch of grass on the National Mall. It’s unclear if Trump is referring to that as one of the subjects of the aforementioned arrests or federal citations, or if he’s just running through some of the “real problems” the pool has faced in general.

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The Trump administration spent over $16m to renovate the reflecting pool, only for it to be swiftly plagued by algae blooms and peeling paint.

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Here’s what the president posted on Truth Social:

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Of the MANY Statues and Fountains that we rebuilt, renovated, cleaned, and fixed, the only one that was Vandalized was the Reflecting Pool, which is being taken care of, ASAP! It has been given a 300 foot long gash, chemicals have been illegally placed in the water, and the beautiful new grass field has been destroyed with a gigantic 86 47 chemically carved into it (Probably inspired by Dirty Cop, James Comey!). Please remember that there is a 10 year prison sentence for the destruction, or even the attempted destruction, of such things – Which will be fully enforced!
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A reminder that “86” is frequently used across the restaurant industry to mean “stop” or to get rid of something, while Trump is the 47th president of the US. Former FBI director James Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this year over an Instagram photo he posted of seashells arranged to spell out “8647”.

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Earlier, JD Vance said the US and Iranian teams made “great progress” in talks yesterday, with the help of mediation from Qatar and Pakistan, and had created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” to end the war.

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“The final deal is the house,” the US vice president told reporters in Bürgenstock. “We set the foundation. We haven’t built the house, but we’ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people.”

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He said Iran has agreed to invite International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors back into their country.

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“This is probably what we are most excited about as Americans,” Vance told reporters, as he confirmed that he will head back to the US as technical negotiations in Switzerland continue.

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Talking about the return of IAEA inspectors, Vance added that it represented “a major milestone for the American people and the first step in permanently ending a nuclear weapons programme in Iran”.

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When asked how soon IAEA inspectors could come to Iran, Vance said: “I expect that will happen at the minimum this week, but we think even some of those conversations with the inspectors and with the IAEA could happen as soon as today.”

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Vance also suggested that the US could agree to unfreeze Iranian assets for purchases of American soy, corn and wheat.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

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Five people have reportedly been arrested for vandalizing Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC, with Donald Trump insisting repair work will begin “immediately”.

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CBS News reporter Emma Nicholson tweeted on Sunday that an administration official told her five people had been arrested for vandalizing the pool and another five issued federal citations, bring the total number of police reports filed to 14, including one related to an alleged 250ft gash in the pool.

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It has been plagued by algae blooms and peeling paint following the controversial recent renovation efforts for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations next month.

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On Sunday, Trump said he had personally surveyed the damage. “Work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening.

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“I just inspected it, and could only say to myself, and those gathered around me, WOW, who would do such a thing?” the president added, without offering further details. He said the pool would “probably” be drained as part of the repair works.

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Three-time Olympian David Hearn, who was apprehended, told the Washington Post that he had merely stopped by the pool to touch one of the peeling pieces of paint liner to see how it felt, when he was arrested by US park police on a misdemeanor charge.

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Trump gave no details on any other apparent arrests and exact details of such apprehensions remained scant on Sunday afternoon.

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Meanwhile, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said on Sunday afternoon that citations for vandalism had been issued and people caught vandalizing the 2,000-ft-long reflecting pool will be fully prosecuted.

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“Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing or attempting to vandalize will face the criminal justice system in DC,” ‌Pirro told Fox News’s Sunday Briefing. Anyone adding products to the pool that can generate algae could face more severe charges, Pirro added, but did not offer statistics or specific details of arrests.

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Donald Trump threatened to ⁠resume war with Iran even as his vice-president JD Vance met Iranian officials to begin peace talks in Switzerland. Also overshadowing negotiations in Bürgenstock was Tehran’s announcement it had again closed the strait of Hormuz, a threat made because of ongoing Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon.

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US political figures from left and right have voiced fresh objections to Trump’s provisional deal with Iran. Outgoing Republican senator John Cornyn posted a line on X from a Wall Street Journal article on how rogue regimes evade US economic warfare. Senior Democratic figure Susan Rice added to her recent description of the US-Iran deal as a “horrific surrender” by Trump, calling it “egregious” because “so many concessions were granted up front”.

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At least seven people have been killed and dozens injured in several shootings in Chicago since Friday, police said, with Trump again calling for military intervention in the midwestern city. In a post on Truth Social, the president questioned why Illinois’s governor, JB Pritzker, had not welcomed military deployment.

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Nine months after Trump ordered an anti-crime taskforce on to the streets of Memphis, a small band of dedicated observers is attempting to monitor its actions. They have alleged widespread intimidation by agents, who stand accused in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee of having tailed cars, surveilled homes and even “falsely arrested” one community observer.

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Public health resources across the US are failing to keep pace with the rapid growth of online gambling, problem health advocates warned, after Trump endorsed the controversial nationwide surge of prediction markets.

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Key events

Closing summary

This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump ~~home improvement show~~ administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:

Vice-president JD Vance is not at all mad about being snubbed by Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, before talks in Switzerland.
Donald Trump reiterated but declined to share any evidence for his claim that “vandals” had used a knife or box-cutter to cut a 350ft “slit” in the newly applied floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which apparently started peeling away and floating to the surface within days of its application.
Over a dozen national guard troops and federal officers detained a young woman on Monday for the apparent crime of lifting a small piece of the detached polyurethane floor covering from the surface of the pool’s water.
Trump announced that his administration is “preparing lawsuits against ABC for false reporting” in its coverage of his baseless claim that “vandals” are responsible for the failure of his botched renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The legal cause of action is apparently that the broadcaster failed to report his lie that the $35.3 reflecting pool renovation during Barack Obama’s first term cost over $100m.
Trump revealed that the outgoing UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, failed to take his advice to rip out his nation’s off-shore wind turbines and instead drill for oil.“I think he’s a lovely man, but I said, ‘You’re really messing up energy: you have windmills all over the place’”.

Senator Adam Schiff, the Los Angeles Democrat, has responded on social media to the TMZ video we featured earlier, showing a young woman being detained on Monday by over a dozen national guard troops and federal officers for the apparent crime of reaching into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to pick up a piece of the peeling polyurethane floor covering.

“President Trump wasted your tax dollars on a poor paint job for the Reflecting Pool, pouring millions down the drain. Now he’s wasting more money detaining tourists who take a close look at the botched repairs”, Schiff wrote.

Trump says he is suing ABC News for not reporting his lie about cost of Obama-era Reflecting Pool work

As he wishes Starmer farewell, Trump says he tried to warn him about the ‘windmills’

A decade later, the turbines were visible to reporters who followed Trump to Scotland when, as president, he held a promotional event for a new course at his resort, dedicated to himself.

Donald Trump golfed, backdropped by wind turbines, at Trump International Golf Links near Aberdeen, Scotland, on 29 July, 2025. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

Trump, or a ghostwriter, tries to explain ‘Team Algae’ protesters at reflecting pool

Anti-Trump protesters, identifying themselves as ''Team Algae'' held signs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Sunday. — Anti-Trump protesters, identifying themselves as ”Team Algae” held signs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Sunday. Photograph: Matt Kaminsky/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

The post on Trump’s account first suggests that the pro-algae protester is “likely paid”, repeating a familiar claim for which he has presented no evidence, and then notes:

The sign says, “First they came for the algae…” which is in reference to a famous post-WW2 statement about Germans not speaking out against the Nazis:
“…Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Chris Stein

The Senate on Monday passed a bipartisan measure aimed at lowering housing costs by streamlining construction and permitting, ending months of fraught negotiations on a priority for both parties ahead of November’s midterm elections.

The 21st Century Road to Housing Act would limit investors’ ability to buy homes, waives some federal permitting rules in an effort to ease new construction, and authorizes pilot programs to facilitate grants for home improvements and planning affordable housing. It passed the Senate overwhelmingly, with a vote of 85-5, and now heads to the House of Representatives.

The legislation comes as Democrats and Republicans prepare for November’s midterm elections, in which concerns about affordability are expected to loom large in the minds of the voters who will decide control of Congress for the final two years of Donald Trump’s term.

A shortfall in construction of new homes is seen as a key driver of housing costs, which have crept higher in recent years. Last year, House and Senate lawmakers began working on legislation that could draw the bipartisan support needed to pass, but wound up producing competing bills, creating an unusual standoff between the chambers.

The version the Senate approved on Monday combines aspects of both chambers’ bills, and includes language banning investors from buying single family homes if they already own 350 or more properties, which Trump has sought to crack down on. There are also provisions to expand access to manufactured homes, and increase mortgage availability.

Woman detained by a dozen federal officers for picking a piece of floating debris from Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool

Video from the water’s edge, however, shows that people are being arrested for much more innocuous behavior.

TMZ video of a woman being detained on Monday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC after removing a piece of floating debris.

At one stage, two of the guardsmen appeared to laugh with the woman over her arrest.

Asked why he was yelling at them, the man replied, “Because they’re here.” The federal takeover of policing in Washington DC is broadly resented in the city.

When the journalist asked why he would yell at the Oklahoma officers for policing the capital, the man laughed and said, “Lick the boot. If you love the boot, lick it.”

As two oil tankers cross strait of Hormuz, Trump falsely claims record oil flow

That is not close to true.

Crude oil tankers, bulk carriers and vessels sat anchored off Muscat, Oman on Monday. The strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for the region’s oil and gas, is slowly reopening after the signing of a provisional peace deal between the US and Iran. Photograph: Elke Scholiers/Getty Images

Trump claims ‘pictures’ show ‘vandals’ cut a 350ft slit in the reflecting pool floor but declines to show evidence

“I can’t help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up,” the president said.

As he described the two executive orders he was about to sign in the Oval Office on Monday, Donald Trump seemed to reveal that he had no idea what at least one was about.

Reading from a binder on his desk, Trump said: “The second order I’m signing directs federal agencies to transition to what is called quantum … cryptography.”

The president paused before mispronouncing the word cryptography as “crypto-graphy”. He then looked up at reporters assembled in the room and asked: “Does anybody know what that is?”

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