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'Our president is insane': Critics ridicule Trump's rant on 'criminally made algae'
Trump Turns a Maintenance Problem Into a Blame MachineThe Real Power Is the One Writing the StoryThe source here is not algae. It is power. Donald Trump controls the office, the narrative, and the federal machinery around a $16 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. That makes him the decision-maker, the beneficiary of the spotlight, and the person accountable for the outcome when the project peels, leaks, and fails to deliver the promised fix.What the reporting shows is not a mystery unfolding in public. It is an administration trying to convert an expensive, visible…
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