{"id":2607444,"date":"2026-05-27T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ten-dumpsters-of-garbage-taken-from-lincoln-memorial-pool\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:12:47","slug":"trump-ten-dumpsters-of-garbage-taken-from-lincoln-memorial-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ten-dumpsters-of-garbage-taken-from-lincoln-memorial-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Ten dumpsters of garbage taken from Lincoln Memorial pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-ten-dumpsters-of-garbage-taken-from-lincoln-memorial-pool%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2607444&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a Wednesday Cabinet meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president<\/a> Donald Trump said that crews removed \u201c10 major truck dumpsters\u201d of garbage from the Lincoln Memorial reflecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-travel-lid-for-wednesday-an-hour-after-bobulinski-interview-airs\/\" title=\"Biden Calls Travel Lid for Wednesday an Hour After Bobulinski Interview Airs\">pool<\/a>. He described the site as \u201crevolting,\u201d adding that workers cleaned it with steam and performed sandblasting and \u201cpebble blasting,\u201d and he said the pool was not adequately renovated by his predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">claimed<\/a> the renovation was expected to cost about $400 million and would be completed before July 4. He also said the basin is being painted \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d The Cultural Landscape Foundation, however, has sued to block the resurfacing, arguing the management did not follow procedures required by congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> claimed that 10 dumpsters of garbage were removed from the Lincoln <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/memorial\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2814\">Memorial<\/a> reflecting pool during a Wednesday afternoon <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cabinet\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2618\">Cabinet<\/a> meeting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe cleaned it. We fumigated it\u201d Trump said of the Lincoln Memorial. \u201cWe had 10 major truck dumpsters of garbage taken out. 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It\u2019s a bigger version of sand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ucla-student-government-passes-stipend-to-compensate-undocumented-students\/\" title=\"UCLA Student Government Passes Stipend To Compensate Undocumented Students\">president blamed<\/a> his predecessors for not doing enough to renovate the reflecting pool and wasting lots of money to fix the problem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Trump, the renovations of the reflecting pool were supposed to cost $400 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey were going to spend maybe $400 million, I don\u2019t know, you never know, with cost overruns and everything,\u201d said Trump. \u201cBut it was going to take years to build, three years, four years, and we\u2019ll have it done before July 4.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4583706\/trump-vance-fraud-save-social-security-balanced-budget\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4583706\/trump-vance-fraud-save-social-security-balanced-budget\/\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS VANCE\u2019S ANTI-FRAUD EFFORTS WILL SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND LEAD TO \u2018BALANCED BUDGET\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president said the pool\u2019s basin was being painted\u00a0\u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d The renovations are supposed to conclude before the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary of independence on July 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cultural Landscape Foundation, an education and advocacy nonprofit organization, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4563101\/nonprofit-sues-stop-trump-renovation-reflecting-pool\/\">sued to block<\/a> the resurfacing of the pool, claiming the administration did not follow congressionally mandated procedures. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says 10 dumpsters of garbage were removed from the Lincoln Memorial pool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2607445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26147596688849.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[70344,80342,80341,5894,77204],"class_list":["post-2607444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-donald-trump-2","tag-environmental-cleanup","tag-lincoln-memorial-2","tag-politics","tag-public-works"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26147596688849.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607448,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607444\/revisions\/2607448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}