My Trump Deranged friend whom I have referenced recently leaps to that liquid “scandal” by reflex now. Another friend who railed about the issue while we were playing Scrabble last week (I won) actually went to the pool and nearly got arrested for “vandalism.” Shades of the Sixties! Activists are trying to see how they can push those charged with protecting the pool from crazies into over-reacting, thus getting sympathy and support for wasteful, silly protests.

In contrast to the Kennedy Center mess, President Trump tried to solve a long-standing D.C. embarrassment by finally making the Reflecting Pool function as originally designed. When I first got to the nation’s capital after college, I was stunned at how ugly and horrible maintained the pool appeared up close: dirty, cluttered with debris, discolored, smelly. The concept was cool, but in operation it was a disaster. When the thing was reflecting properly, it made Abe Lincoln look like he was telling ghost stories holding a flashlight under his chin. As the nation’s 250 Anniversary approached, it was completely appropriate for the President of the United States to deal with this perpetual eyesore. Because it was Donald Trump doing it, however…

… the Axis of Unethical Conduct derided both the project and him.

When Barack Obama absurdly invited algae into the pool as environmental grandstanding, as the Washington Post reported in 2012, algae were already blooming in it a week after its reopening.  “This is a direct consequence of the fact that this is a green project,” a National Parks Service spokesperson humina-huminaed at the time. But protests? None, of course.

Trump has initiated a District of Columbia restoration project that includes methodically cleaning and repairing ornamental fountains throughout DC, some of which had been inoperative for decades. The formerly graffiti-covered and trash-filled Columbus Plaza fountain outside Union Station is now functioning again, as are fountains in Lafayette Park, Meridian Hill Park and more.   This is National Leadership for Dummies: Trump wants to encourage Americans to be proud of their nation as they should be. Democrats and progressives, however, literally don’t like their own nation, if recent polling is to be believed. So the President of the United States using his power to make the Capital safer and symbolically attractive is more reason to hate him.

Writes one conservative commentator on “X’:

“On one side of the Reflecting Pool there’s the MSM claiming that the algae is still there, on another side leftists are protesting to bring the algae back, and on another side leftists are trying to vandalize the pool. TDS needs to be officially classified as a mental disorder.”

That is not, I submit, hyperbole.