Trump Exaggerates Previous Spending on Reflecting Pool ^22.2%

FactCheck.org - By Saranac Hale Spencer - 6/11/2026, 5:30 PM

Appeal to Authority 25.6% - Quote-first Misdirection 22.9% - Availability Heuristic 20.2%

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began filling with water on June 4 following maintenance work that President Donald Trump called a “big project.” In late May, Trump claimed that “the Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed,” adding that his... more