Trump's Reflecting Pool fiasco takes a turn as onlookers zero in on motorcade tire tracks
Where's that 350 foot gash caused by antifa at?
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The only morons who will give a shit about this damn reflecting pool are the MAGA dumbfucks. Use it as a urinal until the regime changes.
The best proof that the gash doesn't exist is that they haven't plastered pictures of it everywhere, and seem to have actually put black fabric over the fencing to block everyone's view of the empty pool.
Fake news - the tires of the motorcade were part of an Antifa sleeper cell.
Who cares about the pool, it's a distraction of the most obvious kind.
What I'm wondering now is whether the USA can recover from this utter disconnection of the executive from truth and reality.
There is now a undeniable precedent of just lying continuously while in office, to essentially no consequence.
This sets a new floor for what you can do while in power. How this doesn't break US American politics durably, I don't know.
There isn't much about this administration that could be less newsworthy than the shitty renovations to the fucking pool. Why the fuck is anyone interested in this
Because it shows very plainly the absolute incompetence of this government, not only for this project, but as a whole. I mean renovating the pool shouldn't really be that difficult, should it? Just get a reputable company to do the job, and that's it. But the government can't even do that.
He doesn't care about that, only that you're focussed on this, not his failures & grifting.
You can focus on a lot more than one thing. People like to point and laugh about this.
True, but given what he has done & is continuing to do, is it really ok to laugh about?! I get that it can feel like there's not anything else to do, but sometimes you've got to check yourself. Laugh at something else, not him.
They're not, it's a distraction from the Epstein files & Iran. The media is bought & paid for.
FAKE NEWS! But I have a great idea here, maybe it is the best one folks, just fill the whole pool up with beautiful, highly reflective mercury. Or, as they call it, quicksilver. You know what quicksilver is? They used to have it in thermometers before they made them woke... And and I also hear that the algae don't like being in it very much! Just like looser liberals with box cutters. But if they want to reform, and I told JD about this already, we can do patriot baptisms in there as well! It's going to be great! The only thing that would be greater is if we filled it up with liquid gold, but we can't afford that now. Not after what OBAMA did. So the silver will have to do.
Remember when we used to elect people who were fit for the office of president?
Idk, while yes trump is delusional, I can think of a lot more unfit politicians for high office than fit ones.
Is my browser just blocking it or is this yet another article that doesn't actually show any thing that they are talking about?
They have Twitter embedded links rather than just posting the photos directly. So tired of this.
Near the bottom, there's pictures from the post the article is describing. Also a lot of (blank for me) ad spaces to get you to see ads before the content you're looking for.
Nothing there. Interesting.
You’re probably (rightfully) blocking twitter. It’s basically showing this twitter post.
https://nitter.net/joeflood/status/2076666082606080410
Thanks and yes that makes sense.
must be on your end, shows content as expected for me
I guess so it's not there for me.
Not for me either, but I also have a lot of anti intrusive anti ad anti tracking stuff installed.
Go figure.
What a comedy of errors. You couldn't make this shit up.
Oh come on! Stop it! This will put The Onion and all other satirical sources out of business.
Info Wars is the new source to follow
Is it finally from the Onion now? I keep hearing it is, then to hear it isn't.
Yeah they've been putting out videos on the infowars YouTube page.
In case you hadn't heard, Alex Jones popped like a balloon in his car. Seems like other news outlets are afraid to report on it...
Yeah makes sense. His fat red frustrated head has been on the brink of popping for a while now.
It's weird how Richard Linklater either makes movies that I love (like Slacker and Dazed and Confused) or movies that make me want to find him and hit him in the head with a brick. Waking Life was probably his worst movie ever (only Blue Moon is a contender) and it's just bonus points that it also happened to introduce the world to Alex Jones.
I told them this would happen. I told'em!
They are operating under a "realinfowars" brand across some of the major socials.
More effort has gone to an investigation into Trump being embarrassed than Trump raping children. Never forget who sits in the white house or who continues to make that possible. They use the law for self interest, not to build us a better world.
MSMS, its by design, they are all owned by epstein likely related ceos, and that last thing they want is reporting epstein files. they quickly quashed all news negative of trump(report it for a few days, then vanish). ELLison, murdoch, they learned thier lesson when reporting on luigi, Mandamni , and the ice raids , give it too much attention, everyone will be instantly aware, instead its flood the network with nonsense(trumps gaffes, this also includes iran wars of distraction)
Gotta be the dumbest president the US has ever had.
Tells a lot about the country and its people
Only 23% of the total USA population voted for the current Piece Of Shit. But far more just didn't even vote so the true winner was Apathy. It's the apathy of a population mentally beaten down by the relentless flood of mind warping bullshit. Yes, they should have known better. But I think the blame doesn't fit squarely there.
Not voting was support of Trump.
Yep. 350 million people and they are all obviously just like trump. It is like Europeans don't understand that Hungary represens them also, now imagine if the world insisted the rest of Europe was just like Hungary.
I'm not saying America doesn't have problems but these sweeping generalizations of 350 million people make you look like the ignorant one.
Most Americans are just dumb and uneducated so they're well represented by that orange moron.
One of the dumbest people the US has ever had
I disagree, most of the people who voted on him are even dumber. And it shouldn't be possible to be as dumb even as him.
But he got elected. Twice. So what does that say about US voters.
They are incredibly desperate.
So they double down on stupid?
To pay the wage of a child rapist?
One of the dumbest people ever had
That wasn't obvious?
It bears repeating.
Bears tore up the pool?
Are the Epstein Files in the pool? No? Then I don't care about the pool.
as soon jean e carroll recieved 5 million judgement from trump, he does something drastic in the news.(such as the 20% hormuz toll he since rescinded), plus the convenient news of mitch and mcconnels and lindseys death and health.
A while ago I saw the old video before it got filled...
Literally while they were still painting/sealing it, trump full on drove his full motorcade into the reflecting pool so he could see the color and speak at reporters.
I immediately figured that's why it got fucked up.
"The Beast" that the president rides in is a fucking tank and insanely heavily, driving normal SUVs would have been dumb, but there's no way that thing didn't fuck it up.
I assumed this was some kind of typo or something. They drove into the pool?
To be fair:
It was while there was no water in it.
And trump obviously wasn't in control of the vehicle directly, but I'd put money on them at first trying to park next to it, and trump being so lazy he ordered them to drive into the reflecting pool
I'd bet he did it as a stunt to show how durable the liner is.
"Look, the liner is so strong, the strongest, so strong that I can drive a car, not a car really, a limo, but a big limo, a big beautiful limo, more tank than limo if you ask me, but I can drive, I drive the best, ask anyone, but I didn't drive, I have people to drive for me, they drove my limo, tank really, onto the reflecting pool, it's gonna be beautiful, believe me, it's beautiful already, and I know a thing or two about beauty, well they drove my car, all my limos, onto the reflecting pool, that's a funny word, limo, is short for limousine, did you know that, I bet you didn't know that. Limousine, like magazine, a big beautiful magazine, this reflecting pool will be in magazines, they'll see it and go "oh, it's beautiful Mr. President, we want our whole magazine to be picture of your pool" they wouldn't do that though, the mainstream media, they wouldn't report on how strong and beautiful this pool is, they just want to attack. They want to attack me for trying to fix it. 168 million dollars. Obama had 168 million dollars and we did it for 8, or maybe 14. It's going to be perfect, believe me. It's perfect."
I want to say it would have been better if he'd driven through it while there was water in it, but it's nowhere near deep enough for that to be true.
I've heard it contested whether 'The Beast' was used, so I went and Found a video myself.
I personally don't see 'The Beast' out there.
That said, I do think any of those massive Cadillacs could have caused the damage.
https://youtu.be/cVa-a2ZFEGE?t=69
That may not be "The Beast" but it's just as heavily armored and started from a larger frame, so I think it's a safe bet to equate the two even if that's not officially "The Beast".
Like, I don't think it's been one vehicle thru all these administrations.
I always took "The Beast" to refer to a heavily armored vehicle the president routinely travels in. Like how "Marine 1" is just whatever helicopter the president is using, or how trump got off Air Force 1 and got one a different air force 1 a few weeks ago.
While a lot less official "The Beast" isn't a single vehicle either.
The beast specifically is the limo, but you're right, there are 2 of them.
I'm dead, this is so ridiculous.
10 pickups driving directly inside the pool for a single orange guy...
Even more crazy is to now see the news show videos of a person who had his hand underwater as proof the pool was sabotaged
Ever if "The Beast" itself isn't used, I'm pretty sure a lot ,f the rest of the motorcade vehicles are all armored with various additional bells and whistles so they probably outweigh standard SUVs by a good bit. I'm pretty sure one of the motorcade vehicles usually has a mini gun turret that pops out of the roof.
Also, I haven't seen anything specific about it, but I do believe the beast is at or near the end of its intended service life and i saw a few months back some article that pointed out that he was seen in an Escalade-looking vehicle instead of the beast at some event, so there might possibly be a new beast making it's way into service, but they weirdly haven't made any major announcements about it yet (I wouldn't be too surprised by any other president being a bit tight-lipped about it, but trump absolutely would not be the type to shut up about "his" new custom Cadillac.)
Maybe the Saudis will buy him a new car to go with the jet
He had to be driven because he can’t walk more than 10 feet without collapsing?
He had to be driven because he can’t walk more than 10 feet without collapsing!
ftfy
Ah. I hadn’t seen that story!
No photos in the entire article. Brilliant.
There are some tweets at the bottom so you can click and be presented with an X login wall which I am certainly not going to be able to get past, not having an account to that nazi owned site. I just love twitter journalism these days.
use a nitter mirror
No.
fair 'nuf
So he wasn't wrong, it's just that he himself was the vandal.
And the crack the Pedo-in-Chief said was there? That is the drainage channel.
Dumb as fucking dirt...
Everything he touches...
The Mierdas hand.
Underated joke
This article is about posts on nazi owned platforms X and Truth Social for those who would like a reprieve.
"How many Escalades does it take to break a pool?"
Maybe there are better photos somewhere but the ones in the article look nothing like tyre tracks.
Yeah I kinda doubt that you'll see the tracks of an ancient city in Lebanon in D.C.
This is a stupid joke.
Careful. Now that the pool is drained you can be arrested for NOT touching the water.
They're also going to give the death penalty for double parking.