It’s a big day for Donald Trump. While construction crews will have to work around the clock to finish the “Arc de Trump” before the end of his term, and the White House ballroom still looks like a rubble pit, he’s actually completed one of his major Washington, D.C., renovation projects. After months of work, construction crews have finished repainting the basin of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and it was refilled this week.

The president has been showing off the project all morning. First, he shared this fawning X post from Howard Lutnick to his Truth Social account:

I stopped by the new Reflecting Pool. It is simply glorious. There were a thousand people, everywhere, taking pictures and just enjoying its beauty. Thank you President Trump for restoring our city’s national treasure. pic.twitter.com/Ii7DlEItfd— Howard Lutnick (@howardlutnick) June 10, 2026

I stopped by the new Reflecting Pool. It is simply glorious. There were a thousand people, everywhere, taking pictures and just enjoying its beauty. Thank you President Trump for restoring our city’s national treasure. pic.twitter.com/Ii7DlEItfd

Weirdly, while the Commerce secretary reported that “There were a thousand........

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