Trump Somehow Turns Reflecting Pool Debacle Into An Obama Fight — And Critics Destroy Him

"When blaming Biden isn’t working, go back and blame the guy before him," one critic wrote.

Evening Trends Reporter

President Donald Trump somehow managed to work his favorite scapegoat into an unhinged rant about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday after a reporter pressed him on the cost.

When asked why Trump claimed in April that the renovations would cost only $1 million and be completed in a week, the president gave an answer that befuddled critics on social media.

“In April, you showed us pictures of what you were going to do when you said you had a guy who was going to do it in a week for about a million dollars,” CBS News senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked Trump.

“Okay. Ready. Barack Hussein Obama, have you ever heard of him?” Trump asked.

“Yeah,” O’Keefe responded.

“He spent two years and over $100 million on trying to fix it. You know what happened to it? Never even opened,” Trump said. “He took the water for the river, you know about that, right? It turned out to be putrid and it........

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