Every aspect of Donald Trump’s Reflecting Pool renovation project has become embarrassing. On cue, the president has responded to the ongoing fiasco in predictable fashion, concocting strange tales that free him of any responsibility for his failure.
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The trouble is, the more he hedges on the details, the more it seems that he’s just clumsily making stuff up.
The basics of the Republican’s problem are obvious: The Reflecting Pool is too green, it has cost too much, it has taken too long, and its new blue paint is peeling. Taken together, the fiasco is shattering Trump’s myth that his approach to problem-solving — cutting corners, controversial no-bid contracts, rushed timelines, etc. — is somehow superior to his predecessors’.
With this in mind, the president began assuring the public in recent days that he had succeeded beautifully, until “vandals” intervened and ruined his triumph. It’s these awful villains, he insisted, who deserve the blame.
Trump just hasn’t worked out the details.
He’s not sure what happened: Trump alleged that nefarious criminals somehow caused the blue peeling, “probably” using “a box cutter or a knife of some kind.” The president’s choice of words suggested that he didn’t really know what happened and was really just speculating based on personal hunches about possible excuses.
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