We can’t have nice things because orange man bad.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, has been neglected for decades, sadly, and it seems every attempt to restore it to glory has been doomed from the start. Former President Barack Obama tried and failed – and he wasn’t the first – but President Donald Trump said he would get it done quickly, without any fuss, and at relatively little cost. The renovation took longer than he claimed it would and cost considerably more than the figure he originally touted. But he did fix it, and, for a few days, it looked great. Still, it already needs repairs after allegedly being sabotaged – and, beyond the question of whether the famous landmark was deliberately damaged, reactions to the news tell us a great deal about the mind-altering effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The first thing worth noting is that, when the Reflecting Pool was last renovated – the project was completed in late 2012 at a cost of $34 million – hardly anyone mentioned it. The media didn’t cover it to any great extent; Obama’s critics were not angry about it – or about the price tag – and when, just days after renovations were complete, the pool filled with algae, no one gleefully reported its failure.
Certainly, Obama didn’t accuse anyone of vandalizing the pool because the very notion would have been ridiculous. No one on the right, no matter how much they despised the then-president, would have even considered defacing a national landmark out of sheer spite.
Yet, the idea that Trump-deranged leftists would really do such a petty and reprehensible thing is entirely believable. And that in itself is a damning indictment of the 47th president’s haters.