{"id":4848,"date":"2026-04-02T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/4848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:22:06","slug":"donald-trump-blames-joe-biden-for-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/4848\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Blames Joe Biden for Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandatory.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1769\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> has slammed former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mandatory.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"25631\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a> for allegedly neglecting the maintenance of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on the\u00a0National Mall. The businessman-turned-politician recently took to social media to criticize his predecessor and his administration for failing to keep the Washington, DC, monument clean and announced that he would take it upon himself to complete the job.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump talks about Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool<\/p>\n<p>On March 31, the POTUS confirmed his plans to restore the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool to its former glory via a social media post. He also revealed that he will be collaborating with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to oversee the project that Joe Biden\u2019s administration seemingly failed to fulfill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and I are working on fixing the absolutely filthy reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument,\u201d Donald Trump wrote in his <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116325374279671384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Truth Social<\/a> post. \u201cThis work was supposed to be done by the Biden Administration, but Sleepy Joe doesn\u2019t know what \u201cCLEAN\u201d or proper maintenance is \u2014 The President and Secretary do!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Trump\u2019s online briefing, Doug Burgum also took to his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecretaryBurgum\/status\/2039060776002961739?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X (formerly Twitter)<\/a> to corroborate the President\u2019s comments. \u201cUnlike the Biden administration, @POTUS knows how to get things done! @Interior is working to Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful! Proud to work with you on this important task, Mr. President,\u201d the Interior secretary posted, along with pictures of himself, standing beside the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.<\/p>\n<p>Situated right in front of the Lincoln Memorial, the reflecting pool attracts a lot of pollutants over the course of a year, collecting bird feces, bacteria, pollen, and other contaminants due to the high volume of foot traffic, as per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/local\/dc\/national-mall-national-park-service-reflecting-pool-cleaning\/65-4eaec8ed-dcc4-401c-a1bf-b740302f4c3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WUSA9<\/a>. As such, the pool traditionally requires deep cleaning and refilling on an annual basis.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2025, the National Park Service also posted a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DGi_LMHR2tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>, showcasing a \u2018Super-Scrubber\u2019 cleaning the drained-out reflecting pool. \u201cOur facilities team cleaning up a year\u2019s worth of trash, algae, and goose poop in the Reflecting Pool,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has slammed former President Joe Biden for allegedly neglecting the maintenance of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,3461,5412,103,104,10,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-4848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-joe-biden","10":"tag-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool","11":"tag-pop-culture","12":"tag-pop-culture-news","13":"tag-potus","14":"tag-president-of-the-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116336508624132996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}