What was intended to be a ceremony for Trump to sign two executive orders on quantum computing turned into another episode of Declining President Theater.
During a Q&A session with reporters, Trump was questioned, “Are the contractors who did the initial work with the reflecting pool, are they to blame for the current condition or is it the vandals who-”
Trump cut in abruptly, “No, no. We have vandals.”
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The president elaborated, “No. Vandals. You know, we have 100 and… We have a, I think, 290, 300-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind. Or we had people lifting up the basic, uh, some of the ba- It’s, it’s not a lot of damage, but it’s, we’ll probably have to let the water out and re-fix it. They went in there with, with a knife. Uh, I was just told by the, uh, by the people over at Parks, they have five people are arrested and five people are under investigation right now, and it’s a sad thing.”
Sarah Jones talks about Trump and the Reflecting Pool:
Trump appears more irrational than any president in history. Even Nixon, at the peak of his Watergate paranoia, didn’t sound this bad.
The president was just getting started as the situation was about to become even stranger.
