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Rhiannon12866

(260,970 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2026, 10:29 PM 5 hrs ago

Trump 'set the stage for his own failure': GOP strategist blasts reflecting pool disaster - The Weeknight - MS NOW

Trump’s excuses for the algae-covered, peeling reflecting pool are falling apart, as new reporting undermines his claims that “vandals” were responsible for the damage. MS NOW political analyst and Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett joins The Weeknight to respond. - Aired on 06/23/2026.

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Trump 'set the stage for his own failure': GOP strategist blasts reflecting pool disaster - The Weeknight - MS NOW (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 5 hrs ago OP

The reflecting pool is a perfect algaegory? Analalgae? for the whole Trump machine. Ocelot II 5 hrs ago #1

Allegory. And I completely agree. No one can tell him what to do, surrounds himself with sycophants. Rhiannon12866 5 hrs ago #2

Oh, and by the way, where are his "concepts" of a (healtcare) plan? Justice matters. 4 hrs ago #3

Damn good question. These days he's too busy arresting "vandals" who touched the water in the Reflecting Pool Rhiannon12866 4 hrs ago #4

Ocelot II

(131,779 posts)

1. The reflecting pool is a perfect algaegory? Analalgae? for the whole Trump machine.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 11:01 PM

5 hrs ago

Rhiannon12866

(260,970 posts)

2. Allegory. And I completely agree. No one can tell him what to do, surrounds himself with sycophants.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 11:11 PM

5 hrs ago

Justice matters.

(10,221 posts)

3. Oh, and by the way, where are his "concepts" of a (healtcare) plan?

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 11:47 PM

4 hrs ago

It was a conman's LIE?

Ok, remove the question mark.

Rhiannon12866

(260,970 posts)

4. Damn good question. These days he's too busy arresting "vandals" who touched the water in the Reflecting Pool

Reply to Justice matters. (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 11:56 PM

4 hrs ago

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