{"id":80888,"date":"2026-11-04T07:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/election-week-in-trumpland-algae-space-proclamations-and-a-deflection-of-blame\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:55:04","slug":"election-week-in-trumpland-algae-space-proclamations-and-a-deflection-of-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/election-week-in-trumpland-algae-space-proclamations-and-a-deflection-of-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Election week in Trumpland: algae, space proclamations and a deflection of blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s unrelenting focus on the \u2018beautification of Washington\u2019 and Fox News ratings did not stop the Democrats\u2019 decisive midterm election wins<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/apr\/25\/election-newsletter-sign-up-stakes\"><strong>Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Standing at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on Monday afternoon, Donald Trump zeroed in on his closing message of the high-stakes midterm elections: it can take a long time to get rid of filth.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours before Americans headed to the polls, the US president staged a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/02\/trump-reflecting-pool-renovation-midterms\">bizarre press conference<\/a> in which he touted his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/11\/reflecting-pool-repair-company-plan-flaws\">troubled $14m renovation<\/a> of the Washington DC landmark and blamed his predecessors for the algae that once bloomed in its water.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/election-week-in-trumpland-algae-space-proclamations-and-a-deflection-of-blame\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s unrelenting focus on the \u2018beautification of Washington\u2019 and Fox News ratings did not stop the Democrats\u2019 decisive midterm election wins This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. Standing at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on Monday afternoon, Donald Trump zeroed in &#8230; <a title=\"Election week in Trumpland: algae, space proclamations and a deflection of blame\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/election-week-in-trumpland-algae-space-proclamations-and-a-deflection-of-blame\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Election week in Trumpland: algae, space proclamations and a deflection of blame\">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-80888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80888","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=80888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}