Pro-MAGA influencers erupted in outrage after CNN tested the bright green water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which President Donald Trump recently renovated.
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Trump ordered the landmark repainted “American flag blue” for $14.2 million — far exceeding his initial $2 million estimate. Algae turned the water green within days of the pool being refilled in early June.
CNN sampled the water and had it independently tested, finding phosphate levels far higher than recommended for a pool holding 6.5 million gallons.
“They are having a field day out here,” an algae specialist told the network.
Florida’s Voice chief content officer Eric Daugherty griped on X that “CNN is digging deeper into water color than they dug into hundreds of billions of fraud” — a post that racked up 2 million views.
“Pond scum gets the full investigative treatment,” Benny Johnson, host of The Benny Show and a Turning Point USA contributor, fumed on X. “Massive fraud against the American taxpayer? Crickets.”
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Kristin Sokoloff, co-host of the Dirtyside of Leadership podcast, was blunter. “CNN [is] obsessed with Reflecting Pool paint while America burns,” she posted.
Retired Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, a RedState columnist, mocked the network as “that crack journalistic enterprise that liberals and airports live on.”
“If only they cared this much about Hunter’s laptop,” Newsmax host Rob Schmitt snapped on X.
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