00:19A pool that cost almost $15 million to fix is falling apart again, and this time the
00:27president isn't blaming algae. He's calling in law enforcement. Here's where we are. Weeks
00:34ago, Trump ordered a major renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, drained,
00:39painted, refilled. The price tag started at under $2 million. It's now ballooned to nearly
00:46$15 million, paid to a contractor called Atlantic Industrial Coatings. But almost as soon as the
00:53work wrapped, the pool started turning green with algae, and then something stranger. The blue
01:00coating on the bottom started peeling off. Late Friday night, Trump posted on Truth Social with
01:06a new explanation. He says the pool wasn't just deteriorating naturally, it was sabotaged. He
01:13claimed someone used chemicals on the surface to deliberately damage it, and said the algae
01:18problem is now mostly resolved, with full repairs expected early next week. He also said the
01:25damaged area is small. There's one catch. He didn't offer any evidence, no photos of the
01:31alleged chemicals, no description of a suspect, nothing from law enforcement confirming an active
01:36case, just the president's word that it's being investigated. And here's where it gets weirder.
01:42Trump tied this directly to another mystery just steps away, the numbers 8647, etched in the National
01:51Mall grass over a week ago. Online, that number's been read as a message. 86, slang for getting rid of
01:59something, paired with 47 for the 47th president. The Interior Department already called it deranged
02:06vandalism and rushed to fix the lawn, but new images show the numbers looking even bolder than before.
02:12with the 4 and the 6 now unmistakable. Trump says the same kind of chemical attack was used on both
02:20the grass and the pool, calling it a coordinated effort to, in his words, destroy and demean the
02:27renovation. Step back though, and there's a simpler explanation hanging over all of this. A rushed
02:33multi-million dollar paint job in standing water, paint that may never have been designed to survive sun,
02:40heat and algae growth in the first place. Trump, meanwhile, is using the moment to hit back at
02:46critics, framing DC beautification as one of his signature second-term projects, and blaming Democrats
02:53for letting the pool fall into disrepair before he stepped in. So, coincidence, coordinated sabotage,
03:00or a paint job that just couldn't handle reality.
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