Column By Mike Bibb
Alright, it’s almost expected that a day doesn’t pass without President Trump being accused by obsessed Democrats and liberal media of some heinous misdeed.
Why should his renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool be treated differently?
It’s isn’t.
In spite of spending several million dollars to drain, repair, repaint, and refill the 2,030′ x 167′ shallow rectangular concrete dish, a common swimming pool problem has returned to afflict one of the nation’s premier monuments — algae.
Dems and mainstream news organizations are reacting like Trump intentionally planned to deface a century-old memorial by first reviving it and then plotting its demise by infecting it with an organism common to standing bodies of water — including city swimming pools, freshwater lakes, and ponds.
Reporters have pounced on this story as if its importance is worthy of a Pulitzer Prize in journalism — “Breaking News: Algae Discovered in Trump’s Newly Scrubbed Reflecting Pool. Where Did It Come From? How Did It Get Past The Secret Service? Was Putin Involved?”
“How much lower can the President descend in his attempts to wreck the aesthetic attractions of our nation’s capital?” certain disgruntled folks may be wondering.
Apparently, totally unaware of the many statues and other graffiti-covered and soiled D.C. monuments, Trump has cleaned up — “President Donald Trump’s administration set out to clean up Washington, D.C., 14 months ago, and since has repaired 22 fountains, 28 statues, and made various other improvements to the nation’s capital. The ‘Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force’ launched on March 28, 2025. Under the leadership of the task force, the administration has removed more than 500 instances of graffiti around the city, installed 134 rat-resistant trash cans, and repaired more than 150 potholes, according to internal stats shared with the Caller.” — The Daily Caller, June 1, 2026.
Because an ordinary act of nature is doing what it has been doing for millions of years, and because it happened to an old structure Trump recently refurbished, then, somehow, it logically follows that the presence of green algae in previously clean, clear water must be the dastardly deed of President Donald John Trump.
Who else could be responsible? After all, only a King could order something like this to happen.
Maybe, a King and Nazi mix; it probably doesn’t get any worse than that. Unless “Algae Antagonist” is added to the list.
Could it be that a little vandalism is going on, too?
If progressive talking heads in Washington weren’t so predictable in their complete disdain of Trump that they would willingly expose their biased ignorance to the whole world, then it’d be comical when they begin flapping their pie holes — in pious intellectual superiority — over a subject that’s been going on long before Trump was a twinkling in his parent’s eyes.
Actually, probably eons before Adam and Eve were exchanging ribs and apples in the garden.
While I can’t say for certain, I imagine there’s been algae floating in the Lincoln-Washington Monument pool since it was built in 1922-23, and throughout subsequent repairs and repaints.
Nor do I suspect that normal patches to the basin would make national and international headlines or become political folly for the party not in power.
Prior rehab of the pool took place in 2011 at a cost of $34 million. Similar to Trump’s efforts to clean and restore the facility, algae soon appeared. But, since Barack Obama was President (D), there was little mention of the problem.
Don’t forget Joe Biden (D) resided in the area for four years, worked there for about 50 years, and had ample time to resolve the pool’s murky water.
Instead, he decided to celebrate Gay Pride Month with flags, LGBTQ+A1++ decorations, topless trans celebrations, dances, parades, and other bewildering exhibitions during the 30 days of June.
Perhaps Dr. Jill failed to mention the pool’s untidy look, or Joe couldn’t find it to see for himself.
Whatever the case, it could very well be that the simple act of cleaning up a dirty piece of Washington’s landscape has evolved into a unique dispute between Republicans and Democrats.
Assuming brain doctors can tell us why the Left is fascinated by the presence of algae in water, maybe they can also explain why foreign visiting World Cup soccer fans are going crazy over Ranch Dressing?
Conceivably, these are some kind of related disorders caused by consuming too much unrefined malarky.
Further illustrating the undeniable fact that it’s not the physical condition of the reflecting pool, or Ranch Dressing, that’s the real issue, but rather Democrats’ unhinged loathing over anything associated or encouraged by President Trump.
Kind of a contemporary example of physiologist Ivan Pavlov’s Dog Reaction Theory: Democrats will automatically begin salivating and barking at the mere mention of Trump’s name or appearance.
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is the nonclinical term used to describe this malady. Undoubtedly, there are other Latin-sounding descriptions, but I’ll leave that report to the more medically educated among us.
Principally, because it appears we’ve gone way past TDS to a full-blown psychosis pandemic, where people’s normal and rational thought processes have been completely overwhelmed by the incredible loony-tune rantings and behavior of cartoonish political clowns.
