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August 10, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump’s Repeated Attacks Over Reflecting Pool Comes Back to Bite Him
Former Olympian David Hearn’s lawyers said they are exploring all options.
August 10, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Pushes Reflecting Pool Claim His DOJ Already Admitted Is Fake
Donald Trump also announced new security cameras to deter future “vandals.”
August 5, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Jeanine Pirro Screamed at Doug Burgum Over Reflecting Pool Case
Pirro let loose during an Oval Office meeting with Burgum and Donald Trump.
August 4, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Pirro Rushes to Prove to Trump She Didn’t Mess Up Reflecting Pool Case
Pirro even lugged a giant box of evidence with her.
August 4, 2026
Edith Olmsted
All Trump’s Reflecting Pool Lawsuits End in Total Failure
The Department of Justice has dropped charges against the two remaining defendants.
August 3, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump DOJ Blasted for “Gross Abuse” of Power in Reflecting Pool Case
The Department of Justice abruptly dropped the charges against former Olympian David Hearn.
July 23, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Accidentally Damages Monument in Renovation Rampage
There is now a hole in the German-American Friendship Garden fountain.
July 16, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Handpicked Company Screwed Up Reflecting Pool Reno From Start
Turns out, the pool liner didn’t peel up because of vandals.
July 16, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Ropes FBI Into His Supposed Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case
An FBI evidence collection team was spotted by the pool.
July 15, 2026
Robert McCoy
Here’s How Long Trump Wants to Hide the Reflecting Pool From Americans
Donald Trump has a new plan to cover up just how bad the renovation is.
July 14, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Dramatically Shrinks Two National Monuments
Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante are sacred to Native tribes.
July 6, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Sec. Insists Reflecting Pool Is Fine as He Prepares to Drain It
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum claimed the pool renovation is a “big success.”
June 17, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Renovation Makes the Reflecting Pool Biologically Worse
So much for preventing algal blooms.
June 16, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Team Dumps Bleach in Reflecting Pool to Hide Renovation Failure
That’s a great shade of American Flag … green.
November 26, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Threatens to Destroy Another Priceless American Landmark
Donald Trump reveals that the Reflecting Pool is next on his renovation chopping block.
October 23, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Can Destroy Entire White House if He Wants
Leavitt dodged a key question on the limits to Donald Trump’s abilities to renovate.
July 11, 2018
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
How to Dig Up a Dictator
Can exhuming Francisco Franco make a Spanish Civil War monument less fascist?
April 25, 2017
Emily Atkin
Donald Trump is coming for your public lands.
June 24, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
President Obama just created the first national monument honoring the LGBT community.
February 12, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Obama announces the protection of 1.8 million acres of desert, including some of the music industry’s favorite spots to shoot music videos.

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