How the Reflecting Pool came to mirror Trump’s Washington

How the Reflecting Pool came to mirror Trump’s Washington

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August 10, 2026

A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The saga to fix the monument instead turned the pool into a striking reflection of the second Trump administration.

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