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CNN supercut lays bare Trump’s embarrassing boasts about his doomed Reflecting Pool
Trump’s Reflecting Pool Failures Are Not a Mistake. They Are a Method.The Power Was Always UpstairsThe Reflecting Pool story is not about a piece of stone, water, or paint. It is about presidential power used as personal theater. Trump set the terms, set the timeline, set the price claim, and turned the project into a public promise attached to his own image. When the result became embarrassing, the problem did not move downward to the people with actual control. It stayed where it belonged: with the president and the circle that enabled him.The Source of the DamageThe reporting points to a…
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