Fencing went up around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., in June 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed vandals had damaged the newly renovated monument. The U.S.

The documents do not indicate that the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally. By Maxine Joselow and David A. Fahrenthold Maxine Joselow, a climate reporter who covers the ...

President Donald Trump spent Sunday morning touring several of his Washington construction projects — inspecting a park across from the White House, walking the grounds of a golf course he hopes to ...