Donald Trump on Sunday said vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial — in the same spot where Trump had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration.

Trump made the accusation in a social media post without saying why he believes it’s the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. He posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf.

“Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform.

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    He thinks he can say anything and it will distract us from his war crimes and the sex trafficking from Mari Lago and the rapes and the sexual assaults and the pedophilia and adultery and all the fraud and insider trading and market manipulation and bribery and election interference and the treason and the fake elector scheme and dodging the draft and colluding with dictators and constantly lying to the public and alienating all our nation state allies and depleting our military’s munitions and filling the government with incompetent loyalists and etc etc etc the list never fucking ends…

    And he thinks he can point at some grass and say “hey look over there!” And we will just roll over and fall for it.

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    I imagine he also makes similar accusations when he shits his pants. “How did this shit appear on my underwear and pants? Clearly the work of Antifa!” ☝️🍊

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    He’s not wrong, it was a vandal. They even tore down the east wing and clogged up the straight of Hormuz like it was a low flow toilet in the Whitehouse.

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      Hey, leave the Germanic tribe of the Vandals out of this. They got a bad rep from those pesky Romans, but they were clearly not as bad as that orange twat.

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      He’s more like Sulla in the late empire period, when the Republic died in all but name,in the agrarian revolt and civil war and his appointment as dictator for 10 years until his death, a reign of terror.

      He put daily lists of proscriptions in the forum every day, first enemies. No police then, citizens got a reward killing them. Then he would seize their assets and spend it in drunken orgies and such. He then took to proscribing the rich of his own party under false pretense to seize their assets.

      He eventually died from some kind of parasitic infection in his asshole.

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    I think he’s trolling the American public. He knows darn well that it was vandalized - by him. And he knows that no one is going to do a damn thing about it.

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    Seems like we have had a increase of “vandals” ever since this guy took office again. Maybe its the guy in charges fault?

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      Even after he deployed the national guard to DC to crack down on crime. So not only has crime gone up under him, it’s gone up while he’s been actively “stopping it”

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    Vandal-In-Chief praises the efforts of his vassal vandals:

    “Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly”

    He’s not complaining, he’s crowing.

    His meaning of “better than ever” is different from that of any sane person

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      For some reason I’m reminded of that crazy lady that was the GF of Junior screaming to an empty room about how the “best is yet to COME!!!”

      Whatever happened to that crazy lady, anyway? 🤔

      Oh right, she was used up and cast aside like a used Kleenex…

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    Man, you’d think that the residence of the president of the united states would have the security to prevent people from messing up the grass. I guess it’s easier to get to the president than was thought possible. I wonder if he’s a security nightmare to the people who have to protect his worthless ass.