FINALLY: Trump’s BLUFF GETS CALLED with BOMBSHELL news

We've finally got the Reflecting Pool update that we have been waiting for.So, some very quick background.Just yesterday, Trump offered up this comment when asked for photographic evidence of the purported vandals that cut a 350 -foot gash in the Reflecting Pool lining.

Now, I can't help it if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up.And we also have pictures of it.Can you release the photos?We've been asking for them.You'll see it in court.You'll see it in court.

But all you have to do is call the Parks Department.Call the Department of Interior, and I don't know if their lawyers will allow you to speak to them, because, you know, you write fake news.

Quote, all you have to do is call the Parks Department.Well, turns out that is exactly what some journalists did.

what's up everyone i'm coming to you from the park police headquarters the reason why i'm here is because trump told reporters yesterday if you want to get evidence of the 350 foot slate in the lincoln reflecting pool that's been the reason for all this mess that you could come to the parks department and they will show it to you i was calling them this morning met with no answers so i thought you know what i'm gonna go in person turns out this facility is in the middle of nowhere.The weather right now is awful.My umbrella is blowing away right now, but screw it.I thought I wanted to see it.I wanted to see this slit.So I came here.

I was ringing the doorbell.No one was answering until finally I was met with a secretary who came out and gave me this pink note card with the PIO's email on it.So I'm still left with no answers.And President Trump, who said that the parks department will show you the evidence is wrong.They're either not listening to him or there is no 350 foot slit as far as we know, because so far there is no evidence.

Now, Trump was pressed on this exact point by TMZ and other outlets.Here's what he said.

Yesterday that the Interior Department has video and photos.We reached out to them and they haven't shared it with us.Are you willing to come held up to the law?

They've arrested, I think, six people on the Reflecting Pool.So, the Reflecting Pool looks fantastic.I just got pictures of it.It's beautiful.But somebody went in with a knife and cut it.They cut it up good.

And then they cut a 200-, 350 -foot slip in the form of lots of little slips, real horrible stuff.And they destroyed the grass, put a brand -new big load of grass out there.They destroyed it.So it's all being fixed.But it's a shame.So I understand five or six people are arrested.

The Interior Department can refer to you on that.And I hear I hear that.I hear they have six people under investigation.

Here's the best part.We've obviously all heard Trump lie.Most of the time, he offers a pretty convincing performance, as if he almost believes his own bullshit.He doesn't, but he's persuasive enough, at least to manipulate the rubes in his base who he wants to con.But here...My God, you can truly tell that his heart just isn't in it.

You can truly tell that he doesn't believe a single fucking word that is falling out of his face.And why would he?It is so incredibly fake that even he can't find it in himself to pretend.You mean to tell me that Vandals cut a 350 foot gash in the brand new reflecting pool lining, the size of a literal football field, and yet there's not even a single frame of video evidence to back it up?Let me guess, the 24 -7 livestream of the National Mall broke that day, huh?Just a quick note here to say that if you appreciate my work, which is and always will be 100 % free, a small ask is if you could please preorder my new book, The Day After, which explores how Democrats must finally wield power if they're fortunate enough to get it back.

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Thanks so much.In fact, this whole idea that Donald Trump is full of shit is a point that I made on CNN.

Okay, Brian, your thoughts on the reflecting pool.This is all bad community theater.

I mean, let's be honest about what this is.Donald Trump hired a company that was not qualified to do this.They did a shoddy job, which we can all see now.The liner is coming up.And because he has such a fragile ego, because he is so delicate, as delicate as a Fabergé egg, now Donald Trump has to pretend, play make believe, that in fact, this was the work of elusive vandals.And even though the reflecting pool is under 24 -7 surveillance, we're all sitting here and watching his administration officials and right -wing acolytes all play make -believe and pretend that, yep, you're right, President Donald Trump, sir, it absolutely was these vandals.

And so he's coming forward with these stories that There was a 200 foot gash and then a 250 foot gash and then a 350 foot gash that somebody did at some point that nobody saw.A gash the length of a football field.And he apparently has video evidence from the park department that he refuses to release, even though that irrefutable evidence would immediately validate his story.Again, this is all just bad community theater because Donald Trump has a fragile ego, can never admit he's wrong, and this is what happens when you have incompetent governance, whether it's something as ridiculous as the reflecting pool, or as important as the rest of the issues that he's failed at governing with.The guest next to me is a Republican, and even he was laughing, because it's all so ridiculous.The lies are just that apparent.

In fact, it's not just ridiculous, it's downright contagious.of his own voters.Use some common sense here.If anybody ever lied to your face the way that Donald Trump lies to his own voters, you would probably disown them as friends, right?Probably think that they were some kind of sociopathic and toxic human?Yeah, turns out that pretty accurately describes the President of the United States.

And look.I want to be clear, I don't really give a shit about the reflecting pool, but I do think it's pretty newsworthy that the most powerful person in the world cannot tell the truth if his life depended on it, even on something so insignificant as a pool.And just like he is incapable of not lying here, he's also incapable of not lying when he swore up and down that he could deliver for the American people, because he refuses to do so.That is why all of the things he campaigned on fixing have gotten worse, not better.Biden left office.Health care is more expensive.

Food assistance is less available.Groceries, energy, electricity, clothing, housing, all of it is more unaffordable.We are engaged in more wars, not fewer.Every single thing he swore to fix has instead gotten worse.Whether it's something as insignificant as the reflecting pool or as significant as his ability to manage the U .S.

economy, this president is utterly incapable of keeping true to his word.And look, the shameless lying is par for the course for Trump.That's not to excuse him, not in the slightest, but it is quite literally all he does.But remember that his Republican colleagues who control the House, the Senate and the judiciary branch have the power to serve as a check on him.And yet those people, people who, by the way, know better, have made the conscious decision not to because they're more interested in kowtowing to Trump than serving their own constituents and adhering to the U .S.

Constitution.And so they watch him squander our tax dollars on a daily basis, on botched reflecting pools, on the ballroom, the Rose Garden, his Qatari jet, the marble seats for the Kennedy Center,a proposed triumphal arch, on a bunch of useless shit that serves as a glaring reminder that Trump is more focused on vanity projects and mindless entertainment than helping anyone in this country.And Republicans are watching all of this unfold and thinking to themselves, yup, the person who is correct here is the president.This is what he should be doing.I am 100 % in support of this.

I say that to say, I don't have beef with people who voted for Trump because you believed him when he said that he felt your pain, but now you can see what full, unapologetic, unbridled Republican government looks like.It is a con.It is a grift for one man.It is a cult of personality.It is a gleeful acceptance of the fact that so long as the emperor is fat and happy, then the government is doing its job.That doesn't help you.

That helps Donald Trump.Remember that the next time Republicans cosplay as populists or pretend to care about delivering for regular people.Because they have the ability to deliver for you right now.And instead, they've opted to bend over backwards for just one man while the rest of suffer.power.Thanks so much for supporting Independent Media.