Trump Bizarrely Blames Vandals For Algae In Reflecting Pool

President Donald Trump is playing the blame game yet again for the ongoing issues with his exorbitant renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — this time for its algae outbreak.

“They put in algae! Who the hell put in algae?” Trump asked while delivering remarks in Medora, North Dakota, on Wednesday.

The president went on to accuse former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden of not fixing the pool despite spending millions of dollars “trying” to do so.

Trump, who potentially has spent more than $1 billion on a slew of Washington, DC renovations, alleged he only spent “a very small amount of money” on the Reflecting Pool in comparison.

“What they don’t say is Barack Hussein Obama ― Have you heard of him? ― Barack Hussein Obama spent tens of millions of dollars trying to fix it, and it was a disaster,” he continued. “Sleepy Joe Biden spent millions of dollars trying to fix it, and he was unable to do it.”

“But we did it, and it works beautifully,” he added.

“We got rid of the algae, which they put in,” Trump claimed. “They had a couple of people with signs [that said] ‘Protect the algae.’ Can you believe this? This world has gone crazy.”

Trump was referring to the protesters who have celebrated the algae that has bloomed in the Reflecting Pool following the president’s ongoing controversial renovations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the same protesters late last month, calling them “deranged leftist[s].”

It is unclear if Trump was accusing the protesters or Obama and Biden of adding the algae.

Trump first announced his plans to spruce up Washington in April ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary, claiming the Reflecting Pool revamp would only cost $1.5 million. The pool renovations have since exceeded $16 million.

Obama oversaw a multimillion-dollar renovation of the pool, but the final bill didn’t come anywhere close to Trump’s renovations price tag. FactCheck.Org also debunked Trump’s claims that the Biden administration conducted major work on the pool.

Biden called Trump a “loser” last week over Reflecting Pool drama.

Elsewhere in his remarks Wednesday, Trump also repeated unproven and likely false claims that the pool was vandalized with a knife.

Watch Trump’s remarks below. Skip to the 49:37 mark to hear his comments about the Reflecting Pool.