{"id":145,"date":"2026-08-17T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media24new.online\/?p=145"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:48:31","slug":"trump-blames-vandals-again-this-time-for-damage-to-lawn-which-hosted-his-july-4-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media24new.online\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Trump Blames \u2018Vandals\u2019 Again\u2014This Time For Damage To Lawn Which Hosted His July 4 Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump on Sunday night accused vandals of damaging a section of lawn in the National Mall in Washington, D.C.\u2014an area that was used to host his July 4 rally\u2014echoing claims he made about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool despite his administration’s failure to produce any evidence of such vandalism in court.<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Nassau County Police Academy Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Key Facts<\/h2>\n

In his post on\u00a0Truth Social<\/a>, the president shared a photo of a large discolored patch of grass in the National Mall next to the World War II memorial.<\/p>\n

Trump wrote “Look what VANDALS did to the grass,” without offering any evidence, and reiterated his earlier claims about the Reflecting Pool being vandalized as well.<\/p>\n

The post also referenced an\u00a0arrest made last week<\/a>\u00a0in connection to an act of vandalism at the World War II Memorial where someone painted the words “Clean hands dirty $.”<\/p>\n

The president ended his post noting that anyone who thinks “the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School,” a remark that echoes his anger at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision to\u00a0drop charges<\/a>\u00a0in the pool vandalism case.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Associated Press noted<\/a>\u00a0the area of lawn that appears in the photo Trump shared is same location where a large stage had been built and crowds had gathered for Trump’s July 4 rally as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The AP report noted a bandstand and seating areas were present in the location where Trump claims the vandalism took place. The agency’s photos of the event structures being dismantled after Independence Day also show discolored and damaged patches of grass underneath.<\/p>\n

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