Donald Trump and his failed maga stinking reflecting pool

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/story/2026-08-04/jeanine-pirro-reflecting-pool#:~:text=Readers%20fault%20President,to%20act%20independently.

Echo opinion letters published in the Los Angeles Times:

Cleaning up Donald Trump's stinking ugly "reflecting pool".
This story refuses to go away because it has become a metaphor about Donald Trump's stinking administration.

• Readers fault Donald Trump for insisting the Washington Reflecting Pool was sabotaged by left-wing vandals even after U.S. Atty. Jeanine Pirro blamed construction flaws, not criminal damage.
  
  
• Letters highlight Trump’s 💲14-million, no-bid contract to a Mar-a-Lago associate whose shoddy work allegedly led to false vandalism accusations and the arrest of an ultimately exonerated suspect.
• Correspondents question whether Trump will apologize, cover the accused man’s legal costs and explain his false claims, while challenging whether the Justice Department can be trusted to act independently.

To the editor: U.S. Atty. Jeanine Pirro dropped charges against a man who was accused of vandalism to the Washington DC Reflecting Pool, saying the damage was caused by shoddy workmanship, not by vandalism (“Trump blasts Pirro after she refutes his claim that Reflecting Pool was damaged by vandals,” Aug. 1). But, Donald Trump, defending his renovation, is angry at Pirro, insisting without evidence that the damage was caused by left-wing vandals.

Pirro is in big trouble. Doesn’t she realize that, in Trump’s world, 2+2=5❓

From: Richard Merel, in Hermosa Beach, California

To the editor: So Trump awarded a 💲14-million, no-bid Reflecting Pool contract to his Mar-a-Lago buddy, who botched that contract’s work. Then, in an attempt to deflect responsibility, Trump and his cult minions claimed that the contractor’s work was good but that vandals had subsequently sabotaged it. David Hearn was arrested and charged with vandalism. Finally, Trump’s Department of Justice dropped that vandalism charge when it became apparent that it wouldn’t survive trial discovery.

Will Trump apologize to Mr. Hearn and reimburse his legal expenses❓ Will Trump explain to everyone why he wildly claimed Reflecting Pool sabotage❓ Can America trust Trump’s DOJ when it clearly acts in personal fealty to him❓

Frankly, I’m afraid that we already know those answers.

From Brian Roberts, in Covina, California