{"id":75161,"date":"2026-06-21T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/trump-says-beleaguered-reflecting-pool-will-probably-be-drained-for-repairs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:56:36","slug":"trump-says-beleaguered-reflecting-pool-will-probably-be-drained-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/trump-says-beleaguered-reflecting-pool-will-probably-be-drained-for-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says beleaguered reflecting pool will \u2018probably\u2019 be drained for repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algae blooms and peeling paint mar $14.2m renovation as president blames problems on \u2018disgraceful Vandalism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The troublesome Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington is \u201cprobably\u201d going to be drained for repairs, Donald Trump has said, after algae blooms and peeling paint marred the controversial recent renovation efforts for America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/series\/america-at-250\">250th anniversary celebrations<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116785296448420208\">Truth Social post<\/a> late on Saturday, Trump said that after meeting with pool contractors, they would \u201cprobably be forced to release and drain much of the water in order to do the necessary repairs, but will have them done as quickly as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/21\/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algae blooms and peeling paint mar $14.2m renovation as president blames problems on \u2018disgraceful Vandalism\u2019 The troublesome Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington is \u201cprobably\u201d going to be drained for repairs, Donald Trump has said, after algae blooms and peeling paint marred the controversial recent renovation efforts for America\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations next month. In &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says beleaguered reflecting pool will \u2018probably\u2019 be drained for repairs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/trump-says-beleaguered-reflecting-pool-will-probably-be-drained-for-repairs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says beleaguered reflecting pool will \u2018probably\u2019 be drained for repairs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}