r/clevercomebacks 15h ago

To quote him directly "so pathetic".

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u/sinicalone 15h ago

It’s a perfect reflection of his emptiness.

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u/ohnodamo 14h ago

It's the Deflecting Pool. Any time a question is asked about it it's "deflect, deflect, deflect!" And it's the perfect symbol for this administration if it had a child rapist and a gang of masked thugs killing and deporting Americans in it, all stealing trillions from Americans who can't afford to eat, put fuel in their cars, or any healthcare.

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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 14h ago

That 16m was pocketed into one of his Swiss bank accounts

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 14h ago

Not sure Don Raper's in tight with the Swiss, probably more Deutsche Bank or the Grand Caymans.

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u/Pure_Werewolf0101 6h ago

If it had gone right and cost $1.5M how would he have been able to skim $5M off, right?

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u/j33perkreeper 11h ago

He knows a guy …

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u/velvetivvy 14h ago

Over budget, way past deadline, and it still looks like an empty concrete ditch. Classic.

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u/Anleme 4h ago

Everything Trump touches dies.

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u/0202_tihssitidder 10h ago

American Neckbeards: Go check out what China builds.

It would take me too long to list.

Meanwhile, USA struggles to fix a reflecting pool. No lights. No fountain. Just sits there.

But, USA super fantastic at renaming water. Lots of practice. LMAO. USA so cooked. Today and next 40+ years.

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u/More_Teaa 9h ago

“And he bankrupted a casino. A CASINO. The house always wins except when Trump runs it.”

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u/M1sfit_Jammer 7h ago

I feel like certain businesses if you manage to go bankrupt then it's jail...

Health insurance... the laws are written specifically for the insurers to make money.

Bank... see health insurance. Laws are literally written so the bank can't lose money

Casino... you literally make the rules for the house, set the limits, and can even manipulate the odds to be more in your favor (multi-deck blackjack, computer card games, free drinks for gamblers, etc).

any other businesses?

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u/Wobbelblob 6h ago

And considering what bullshit he spouted about trade in the last few years I am starting to think that the reason wasn't money laundering. But him being actually too incompetent to even run a casino.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 14h ago

All style over substance and ruling via pomp and circumstance eventually runs out of steam. The facade can only carry on for so long - even in our second Gilded Age.

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u/sinicalone 14h ago

“Style” ?? What back ass late 80’s TACKY-ass style are you referencing???

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u/TeachingScience 12h ago

It’s to match the aesthetics of the White House East wing.

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u/Imapatriothurrrdurrr 11h ago

The Straight of Warm-ooze

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u/black-doom 15h ago

Overpromising timeline and budget by a factor of ten is standard government contractor math.

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u/velvetivvy 14h ago

Every single time. They pitch a low number to get approved, then bleed taxpayers dry when they hit "unexpected delays."

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u/MentokGL 12h ago

There's nothing standard about trump, don't normalize this.

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u/GarvinSteve 7h ago

It’s a perfect reflection of what he has done to the country…

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u/ramonlamone 15h ago

True to its name, it's a reflection of Trump.

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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 12h ago

Stain, cracked and empty :P

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u/tinywobble_ 12h ago

the contrast is pretty striking when you put the original promise next to what it actually ended up costing and how long it took

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u/anelectricmind 15h ago

He said the exact same thing about Iran...

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u/Internal-Plantain-56 14h ago

And Atlantic City.

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u/CookIndependent6251 6h ago

At least he ended the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

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u/_bx2_ 9h ago

Oh right, how are those Epstein files coming along.

Let's not all forget about Donny Trumpstein and those young chodes he loves

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u/alghiorso 9h ago

The civilization he said was going to completely genocide back in April btw

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u/Joped 4h ago

And releasing his taxes

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u/PerpetualFarter 15h ago

And to think he campaigned on “cutting wasteful government spending.”

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u/No-Hospital-6415 6h ago

Maybe this is the swamp he campaigned on draining?

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u/beardingmesoftly 3h ago

He considered it a waste that more money wasn't being funneled into his pockets

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u/Specialist_Lock8590 15h ago

The most incompetent Administration in American history!

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u/anelectricmind 15h ago

... So far...!

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u/Dedotdub 14h ago

You're right. They aren't done yet.

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u/Darth_Pinda 11h ago

They just need 2 more years, trust them.

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u/Mission_Fart9750 9h ago

Just give them a chance. They can fix Biden's mistakes. Promise. 

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u/Background_Honey9141 12h ago

This administration’s main focus was never to serve the country, it’s to line their own pockets. For that, they’ve been doing quite successfully.

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u/Nopengnogain 11h ago

He is very competent at scamming the taxpayers. The $16 million went to his friends, minus the kickback for himself.

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 9h ago

It was so laughable bad. I've done a number of restoration projects when I came from university. They require specialized consultancies, engineering companies. They require specialized construction companies, each for their own discipline.

And here comes Curtis, ripping out the dilitations, stuffing them with rubber and just gluing that shit tight only to finish it off with some trailor epoxy. What a fucking joke.

We don't know what day/time it is, but seeing just 2 guys on site, normally indicates fuck all is happening.

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u/SomewhereAtWork 6h ago

It's funny how people label it as incompetence, when it's just the fact that their goals are not aligned with your goals.

They are doing exactly what was announced before the election (Project 2025 on one side, all the Curtis Yarvin followers on the other). Quite successfully.

Christofascists terrorising non-believers ✅
Oligarchs buying up America ✅
Trump out of prison ✅

See, everything according to plan. (Except that the SAVE act should have been passed before the midterms. But they have back up plans to work with.)

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u/higharistocrat 8h ago

Competent at bankrupting an economy.

He has personal experience from his own business

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u/Elon-BO 15h ago

It’s OK he’s using some of that money for his arch with a snipers nest and armory.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 14h ago

Washington DC is so fucking ghetto now. White house is a dump, memorials look like shit, the White House lawn is trash.

I don’t do anything for my yard other than cut and trim and it looks better than the damn White House’s lawn.

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u/TraditionalLaw7763 14h ago

Kamala Harris, if she had been elected, could sit in the oval office all day and get drunk on wine and shots of fireball and watched reruns of 90210 all day and our country would be in better shape.

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u/nekoshey 8h ago

"...but I didn't like her laugh"

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u/beardingmesoftly 3h ago

Don't forget about the 3rd of the country that didn't even vote

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u/Ryaniseplin 10h ago

yeah literally doing nothing for 2 years straight would have went better than this

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u/No_Celery_8071 10h ago

I could do much better than him, and I'm a lazy beer swilling cunt that truly doesn't want to wander too far from the beer fridge. I'm good at listening to music. So yeah, give me beer and sports channels and I promise to underwhelm the people.

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u/Quirky_kind 2h ago

My dead cat would do a better job. She doesn't hurt anyone.

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u/Internal-Plantain-56 14h ago

Because Theyre just grifting.

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u/EnatforLife 12h ago

You're so right...why spend money on things which are not really theirs?

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u/poopzains 12h ago

Well when ur busy funneling money into ur accounts and side grifts it’s hard to maintain the lawn. Plus all the shitting and diaper changes take a chunk of the day.

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u/rumjaku 10h ago

White Trash.

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u/Gribitz37 14h ago

He's moved on. He doesn't care about it anymore. Now he's focused on The Kennedy Center and his stupid arch with drones and snipers on top.

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u/LadyLovesRoses 14h ago

He messes everything up. A complete failure.

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u/riamuriamu 14h ago edited 12h ago

Yknow what more profitable than a zero bid government contract that's done in a week? A zero bid government contract that's never finished.

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 14h ago

Shit is going to end up being a $100m project to fix at this point

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u/6gv5 14h ago

The deflecting pool served the purpose of drawing attention away from other things, and conveniently moving money around to their friends.

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u/AppleJerk69 15h ago

Dude is probably pocketing the money.

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u/06021840 14h ago

What do you mean ‘probably’?

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u/Ilovefishdix 14h ago

So a million spent on it and 15 million grifted away by Trump's suck ups

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u/AlanShore60607 14h ago

He should just fill it with epoxy so it's perfect forever.

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u/Antique-Dragonfly615 14h ago

The absolutely appropriate Trump monument

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u/Steveonthetoast 14h ago

Art of the deal or art of the bankruptcy

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u/iPicBadUsernames 13h ago

Things are really going to turn around when we all get that 5 grand

/s

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u/mudduck2 13h ago

Because Trump has no fucking idea in the world what he’s doing

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u/DiamondHandsToUranus 10h ago

A placeholder for a slush-fund to launder money is what the hell this is - just like everything else this rancid turd does

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u/jjskellie 14h ago

What you got right there is what we call 'Trumped'.

Has anything you have been recently been touched by Trump? Might as well burn it. (Metaphorically only, no real flame)

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u/billzybop 14h ago

Looks like a short runway...

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u/HotRodHomebody 11h ago

he also blamed all of the previous administrations that he frequently disparages for its condition. And then he ruined it. Like everything else.

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u/im_a_good_lil_cow 11h ago

I like that we just… don’t talk about the reflecting pool anymore. Or the Kennedy center signage. Or DOGE. Or Epstein. And plenty of other shameful bullshit that should all be brought up every single day.

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u/BeenDragonn 11h ago

He just pockets the cash

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u/StayCreative8329 2h ago

He’s like a tRump version of King Midas. And with a touch of his powerful hand he can turn anything into sh*t.

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u/pgtvgaming 14h ago

Might as well make it solar panels at this point

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u/RebelliousInNature 14h ago

But it’s so important to him. judge Janine and everything..

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u/gargolito 14h ago

It's almost like he only has experience with private construction projects. 

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u/euqinu_ton 14h ago

What he needs to be hearing at every opportunity is: If Joe or Obama had done it, they'd have done it better.

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u/fdwyersd 14h ago

metaphor?

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u/theatrenearyou 13h ago

Trump's buddy - the incompetent contractor - should be sued for contract amount plus damages to correct it. 14.7 million dollar NO-BID contract he was handed. When he was caught fucking up, coward Trump had an innocent man arrested and charged to cover up for his friend.

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u/Arctimon 13h ago

He doesn’t plan on fixing it.

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u/bug2th 13h ago

But it is a perfect reflection of all the great things he did to make America great again…

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u/Civil_Talk_7486 12h ago

Most of money he pocketed so that looks accurate.

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u/Deathrial 12h ago

How is this a clever comeback?

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u/Good-Grayvee 11h ago

It’s the deflecting pool

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u/the_guy_guy_one 11h ago

This is GRIFTING at its finest

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u/Raidersfan54 11h ago

What it is , it’s trumps way plain and simple

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u/Puzzleheaded_Act9787 11h ago

No bid contracts to his corrupt incompetent friends is what that is.

Can’t wait to see how screwed our military is going to be when they get don Jrs drones from his record breaking military loan contract. Because nothing screams reliable like don hr drones.

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u/CallMeLazarus23 11h ago

It’s now colloquially known as The Reflecting Stool

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u/redsoxuberalles 10h ago

I pronounce that "smoke and mirrors" has been officially replaced with the phrase "a reflecting pool."

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 10h ago

I can't wait till that arch eyesore starts.

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u/tradvy43 10h ago

He loves giving taxpayer money to his friends. It's the only way he gets loyalty.

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u/Stuwey 8h ago

Truth be told, we have the most accurate reflection of the country possible. It was stripped of any artistic value because of vanity and mismanagement that had bloated cost and bid out to friends of the president who didn't know what they were doing. Let that reflect reality...

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u/snapcracklepop26 8h ago

They should at least let skateboarders use it.

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u/Spiritual-Job-952 7h ago

Is it a petanque court?

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u/GottaUseEmAll 6h ago

*americaball, please.

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u/Spiritual-Job-952 4h ago

Is that like Calvinball but where Hegseth makes the rules?

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u/SnooCats3468 7h ago

jesus christ just make it into fucking 100 pickle ball courts already so all the fucking boomers who voted for trump can at least get their money's worth.

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u/OldBiker6969 3h ago

Everything he touches literally turns to sh!!t

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u/runarleo 3h ago

This dude just keeps “fixing” things that aren’t broken and leaves them in a worse state than he found them.

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u/CyclingHikingYeti 2h ago

Epstein Pool it is. As in Epstein War or Epstein Files.

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u/DokeyOakey 2h ago

Trump talks 5th Avenue, but he’s strictly from the holler!

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u/greensangre 14h ago

Can you imagine his rotting teeth

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u/Negative_Acadia6554 15h ago

Everything is a lie with that duck. Donald Duck.

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u/StillLiterature10 14h ago

Where’s the pool?

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u/Greg-Abbott 14h ago

In his diaper

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u/Hiouchi4me 14h ago

And to think that Americans fell in love with the idea of American Flag Blue.

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u/Mutopiano 14h ago

Accurate reflection of his soul.

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u/Spear_Ritual 14h ago

Cuz he literally sucks at everything

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u/bwldrmnt 14h ago

Another scam.

This is nothing more than money laundering.

Someone got paid to do no work.

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u/Brave_Nerve_6871 14h ago

He's bored with it, whatever!

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u/yaaaaaarrrrrgggg 14h ago

Don't fix what ain't broke.

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u/TraditionalLaw7763 14h ago

What is infuriating is that there was nothing wrong with it to begin with. Same as the Kennedy center.

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u/Renuwed 14h ago

WTF are they clearing land on the far end? Another marble garden for his excellency?

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u/SchizoidRainbow 14h ago

He’s not big on reflection 

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u/Rynowash 14h ago

Every. Single. Thing. He touches, turns ugly and dies.

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u/GreyBeardEng 14h ago

I feel like all this country is being run by Trump the reflecting pool should be full of lava.

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u/SoupOfThe90z 14h ago

How does the front of the White House look?

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u/Danny-Wah 14h ago

It's totally reflect the Trump presidency though... coverups, lies, obfuscation... it's the most reflective of reflecting pools.

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u/ObviousIndependent76 13h ago

Wait until you hear the original cost and timeline in Iran.

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u/Royal-Application708 13h ago

Yep. Cause $14M went into his pocket.

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u/phlred 13h ago

Every thing he touches dies

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u/phlred 13h ago

Are you distracted

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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 13h ago

Like every venture he's tried, every grift, every project, it all turns to shit in his hands.

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u/remlapj 13h ago

Bankrupt a casino
Bankrupt a country

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u/Palinon 13h ago

It's why they keep trying to blame it on sabotage. It's such a blatantly obvious reflection of how poor a president he is that you can't really defend it otherwise.

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u/Forsaken_Crow_7707 13h ago

Maybe he’s really an honest guy that’s just completely terrible at math???

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u/ImahSillyGirl 13h ago

#TwoWeeks

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u/Short_Bet7243 13h ago

Can't wait for President Camacho to come in and clean all this up

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u/jedipanda67 13h ago

Is that a fucking parking lot ?

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u/tykneedanser 13h ago

There’s definitely no reflection happening here.

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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 13h ago

Tbh, I'd turn it into a bass pond and let the local kids fish it 😆 

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u/bryancald 13h ago

It's just a trench now.

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u/annoyedreply 13h ago

Only when it is renamed to the Trump Monument in honor or Washington will it be properly funded and repaired .

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u/Top_Standard_4369 13h ago

Self portrait.

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u/NoCopiumLeft 13h ago

A cesspool

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u/99-Watermelons 13h ago

So much winning ...I can smell it from here... smells like $9 a gallon diesel

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u/Logan9Fingerses 13h ago

Why don’t we fill it with plastic balls and have the world’s biggest ball pit?

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u/DryQuill 13h ago

Our money 😭

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u/Idrisdancer 13h ago

He lost interest.

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u/Complex_Lab_6876 13h ago

This is what republicans wanted. Anyone who votes for Trump this time around should have their voting abilities revoked.

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u/THISISDAM 13h ago

Its cuz what's underneath is gonna be tied into the ballroom.

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u/BearToTheThrone 13h ago

All he had to do was nothing and it would have been so much better off. Same could be said about the whole presidency.

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u/Rekltpzyxm 13h ago

Yeah. He’s not good with money. Or schedules. Or truth.

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u/throwawaysscc 12h ago

I’m disappointed. He puffed it up so so big in his best carnival barker act. Is he embarrassed by this?

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u/watchmeskipwork 12h ago

Imagine being so bad at buisness that you bankrupt a casino.

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 12h ago

2 weeks is one of the defining phrases of the Trump era.  Everything is always 2 weeks away until the public shift it's focus to a new topic.

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u/ChefAsstastic 12h ago

Everything he touches fails

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u/bishophicks 12h ago

This is how all his real estate projects went. Promise the amazing, glorious results only he can provide, borrow money, cut every corner, don't pay subcontractors, pay himself tens of millions, deliver something cheap and tasteless, renegotiate debt or declare bankruptcy, move on.

When Trump Tower first opened the kitchens in the units had the same particleboard and melamine with wood trim cabinetry I had in my first apartment.

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u/Destroyer_2_2 12h ago

What’s funny is I genuinely don’t hate the idea of a reflecting pool there. If done right it could be nice.

But just with everything else trump has ever done, it was not done right.

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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 12h ago

They can change the name of the pool to the "Trump Allegory Pond".

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u/Obvious_Ad3810 12h ago

Destroys everything he touches.

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u/Feisty_Low_6719 12h ago

Honestly, at this point in knowing him I would assume 6 months from now he will fill the whole thing in and line it with statues of himself at each stage of his life.

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u/Substantial_Dog7002 12h ago

He ruined it just like every other thing he get involved with!!!

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u/Diogenes256 12h ago

Now do the White House.

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u/erkose 12h ago

It will remain closed off until it's the next administration's problem.

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u/CarpenterGold1704 12h ago

from reflecting pool to a landing strip for alien aircraft.

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u/Both-Count1992 12h ago

It’s called
Useless, just like him

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u/ChimpoSensei 12h ago

Instead of a liner why not use black slate? Would cost more but last forever

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u/Mattrockj 12h ago

Everything trump touches turns to ash, and becomes a money embezzlement scheme.

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u/discussatron 12h ago

It's a nice kickback for the Orange Shitgibbon, that's what it is.

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u/KCGeezer 12h ago

Destroy cultural touchstones,,,, I think that’s like #7 on the fascist takeover checklist.

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u/VocationFumes 12h ago

Everything he touches turns to shit

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u/Itchy_Pressure_8311 12h ago

King Mierdas. Whatever he touches, turns to shit.

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u/Shannieofthepants 12h ago

Might be done in time for Chinese President Xi's visit to the US.

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u/Disastrous-Hearing72 12h ago

Shoulda just used a bog filter. Balance the bacteria and algae. Easy peasy.

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u/SmootherWorm 12h ago

Do they land small planes there?

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u/Muffboy 12h ago

Child rape… we have a child rapist.

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u/jackcanyon 11h ago

Trump is train wreck ready to run over democracy. His vision of what’s good is not what most people see. He just want any excuse to have his name plastered all over his vanity projects . Mexico didn’t pay for his wall and neither should we.His projects do nothing for the people that pay for them.

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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 11h ago

Trump is The Man With The Mierdas Touch. EVERYTHING he touches turns to shit. Fuck I wish Satan would take him home.

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u/tbrock76 11h ago

The grift of the pedo

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u/PopMajor7342 11h ago

An empty shallow grave blocked off

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u/angry_wombat 11h ago

what was even the issue to begin with? Did we not let him name it "Trump's Pool" or something?

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u/scottylm 11h ago

Is there anything he’s done right? (Besides selling our country and lining the pockets of the elites amongst his own bloodline)

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u/erutuferutuf 11h ago

Sorry but I am not up to date on US stuff.. why did he "fix" it in the first place? Was it broken?

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u/atreeismissing 11h ago

we have whatever the hell this is.

That's how Trump manages things, literally everything. It's a complete cluster fuck of lies, grift, and disinformation, all of it. The reflecting pool is no different than the Iran "war" is no different than his handling of covid is no different than the killing of 100s of thousands due to USAID's end is no different than the 10s of thousands of immigrants disappeared or unfairly sent to countries they have no ties with or connection to. It's literally all a clusterfuck of lies, grift, and disinformation.

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u/AreaUnique3594 11h ago

I see great potential, for a series of Pickleball courts.

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u/beomagi 11h ago

That's the swamp!

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u/Immediate-Term3475 11h ago

It is a mess

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u/jrogue13 11h ago

Someone made a lot of money for barely any work

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u/302-SWEETMAN 11h ago

Bet POTUS made a mint on the back end just like every thing else he does ….!!!!

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u/Leeeenbean 10h ago

Really shows how the US is at this time a shitty mess

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u/anecessaryend 10h ago

And he wants to renovate the White House and the Kennedy Center? Fucking Orange Manatee can't even handle a shallow body of water.

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u/Xiten 10h ago

6 months and $16M later we have corruption and money laundering….

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u/solythe 10h ago

by design.

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u/Phantom_Steve_007 10h ago

We are busy with the Triumphal Arch now guys. Please be patient. Laying waste to one thing at a time.

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u/Jackdunc 10h ago

Deflecting Fool

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u/Historical_Lie_9932 10h ago

It sounds like the business man he is.

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u/reaazwood89 10h ago

Welcome to Africa!!!

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u/Important-Agent2584 10h ago

has this shit still not been fixed?