In a meeting at the White House, Trump suddenly veered off topic — as he often does — to complain about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying he wants to hire his ‘pool guy’ to redo the historic site.
“The other thing that we’re doing that’s taking place right now is, the Lincoln Memorial has a beautiful reflecting pond, or lake. He called it a pool, lake and pond. Everything is different, but the word reflecting is a good term,” Trump said.
Trump then recounted how he’d told Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that he’d asked his “pool guy” to look at the Reflecting Pool project.
‘I’ve probably built more than 100 swimming pools,’ Trump boasted, apropos of nothing.
When asked by a reporter about his earlier comments about ending the war in 4-6 weeks the President became testy, snapping:
“Don’t rush me … so we’re in Vietnam, like for 18 years. We were in Iraq for many, many years … . I’ve been doing this for six weeks, and we’re, their military is totally defeated,” he said.