Reflecting pool
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Sep 11, 2026
Leigh McGowanGUEST
It really is a retaliatory agency at this point, and they want all of their minions to be doing the same thing.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
I think about, like, Jeanine Pirro taking that Olympian to, you know, all the way through a grand jury to trial he, she was supposed to do for, like, him destroying the reflecting pool, which of course he did not do.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
And then they couldn't actually take it to court 'cause she didn't actually have a case, and Trump was furious with her because you can only lie for so long.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
And then you have to actually present your evidence.
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Leigh McGowanGUEST
We're teetering.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
We're teetering.
Riley FesslerHOST
[laughs] I actually have another one that L- Lee, uh, set up beautifully because [laughs] with the reflecting pool gate, there was an, actually an update right before we went on air, and I didn't have time to, to [laughs] send it over.
Riley FesslerHOST
But New York Times is reporting on some internal documents they got ahold of that reveal that the contractor for the reflecting pool renovation admitted that the liner failed due to its own application errors and chemical design flaws in its rushed, no-bid project.
MockHOST
And obviously we're thinking about you and everyone who knew Victor or anybody else that passed away on that day.
MockHOST
And here's a cool behind-the-scenes look at the crew that takes care of the Reflecting Pool today, um, that honors the victims of 9/11.
MockHOST
This is really, really neat.
MockHOST
[gentle music] Every single night they're out there cleaning.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
It really is a retaliatory agency at this point, and they want all of their minions to be doing the same thing.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
I think about, like, Jeanine Pirro taking that Olympian to, you know, all the way through a grand jury to trial, she was supposed to do, for, like, him destroying the reflecting pool, which of course he did not do.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
And then they couldn't actually take it to court, 'cause she didn't actually have a case, and Trump was furious with her, because you can only lie for so long, and then you have to actually present your evidence.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
And if you don't have any evidence, you're in trouble, because this particular administration doesn't care if there's evidence.
7 MINS LATER
Leigh McGowanGUEST
We're teetering.
Leigh McGowanGUEST
We're teetering
Riley FesslerHOST
... [laughs] I actually have another one that L- Lee, uh, set up beautifully because [laughs] with the Reflecting Pool gate, there was an actually an update right before we went on air, and I didn't have time to, to [laughs] send it over.
Riley FesslerHOST
But New York Times is reporting on some internal documents they got ahold of that reveal that the contractor for the Reflecting Pool renovation admitted that the liner failed due to its own application errors and chemical design flaws in its rushed no-bid project.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
And the reason this, this mission is, was really neat, um, I think it was the first head of state I'd probably flown.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
But we used to do head of state lifts, y- y- you can do them from a lot of different places, but one of the main places was flying them from, um, a landing zone at the Reflecting Pool.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
And, um, if you're familiar with where the, the current World War II Memorial is, right there, um, y- you come down that street that kind of divides the, um, the Washington Monument and the World War II Memorial.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
Well, before the memorial was there, that was kind of a wide-open concrete area, and we used that as a landing zone to pick up, um, heads of state in particular.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
Limo comes down that street.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
They board.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
And so, you know, when you, when you take off from there, at least that day, we took off, and we took off right down the Reflecting Pool, right towards the Lincoln Memorial.
Daniel P. CreightonGUEST
You hit the Potomac River, make a right turn.
Jimmy FallonHOST
These are tough times for Trump.
Jimmy FallonHOST
The grass is brown, the Reflecting Pool is green, and the bruise on his hand is blue, so it's a lot of-
speaker_3UNKNOWN
[laughs]
Jimmy FallonHOST
But don't worry, Trump has a plan.
Mary TrumpHOST
which is seriously problematic because what that means is people get the impression that Donald is actually coherent and sensical.
Mary TrumpHOST
Now, there's a lot to say about the reflecting pool debacle, and that is still an ongoing issue.
Mary TrumpHOST
But right now, I just want to revisit remarks that Donald made in the Oval Office after Jeanine Pirro who is a U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia in D.C., when she finally said, you cannot be prosecuting people for vandalizing the reflecting pool because nobody did.
Mary TrumpHOST
And she, of course, is afraid to lose her law license.
Mary TrumpHOST
So these remarks were at least ostensibly or initially in response to Pirro's decision not to bring prosecutions.
Mary TrumpHOST
It was vandalism.
Mary TrumpHOST
I just told you we did, I think, 78.
Mary TrumpHOST
One of the things was to reflecting pool hasn't worked since 1922 because it always leaked.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
We're back at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which remains a mess.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
Come on over, let me show you how it looks right now.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
The tarps are down, so we have a better vantage point, but you may not like what you see behind the fencing and the yellow police caution tape.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
There are workmen and laborers out there still trying to restore what once was.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
It is not a swimming pool, blue reflecting pool at this moment, but the materials, the hoses, the cars, trucks, and work people, it's not a pool at all.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
Trump had said he wanted this done for the July 4th, 250th birthday celebration.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
We are well past that deadline, and there's no date certain as to when this thing gets fixed.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
One of the things we've noticed here over the last few months is You're not going to see a lot of tourists here by the pool, even though this was the historic gathering point for MLK and the March on Washington has such a long, proud history.
Karen Friedman AgnifiloHOST
You could go on and on.
Karen Friedman AgnifiloHOST
Anything of substance he, that he touches or goes near falls apart under a house of cards, but yet he likes to present it as, "Oh, the Reflecting Pool, I'm gonna make it great." You see the Reflecting Pool, it's, it's currently, uh, drained and has, like, algae scum on it, right? Because he screwed that up.
Karen Friedman AgnifiloHOST
He, he just screws up everything substantively, but he tries to, to wrap it in a shiny, you know, with a bow and make it glossy and shiny and smile and pretend that everything's great.
Karen Friedman AgnifiloHOST
But I think everybody's onto him, and people are onto him, and the voters more importantly are onto him.
Sarah LongwellGUEST
And it really is...
Sarah LongwellGUEST
Listen, it's not that, um, the Reflecting Pool or the East Wing, that doesn't have a personal con- con- uh, like consequences for voters, but it is a contrast for voters about what Trump is paying attention to.
Kara SwisherHOST
Right.
Sarah LongwellGUEST
Voters will let him do all the weird stuff he wants as long as the economy is working, like his voters, but the second that he is focused on the East Wing-
Rob CarsonHOST
It starts with driving across the bridge from Arlington into DC, where they've re-gilded the statues on either side of the road.
Rob CarsonHOST
It's absolutely gorgous-- glorious, framing the Lincoln Memorial and the new Reflecting Pool.
Rob CarsonHOST
And of course, crime down.
Rob CarsonHOST
Kids in the inner city can ride without getting shot.
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