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President Donald Trump says the U.S. Park Police have rounded up a ring of vandals who sabotaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The actual arrest record tells a much smaller story: one 67-year-old cyclist who says he reached into the water to touch a piece of paint that had already fallen off.

In a Truth Social post Saturday, Trump escalated his days-long insistence that his troubled $14 million renovation was the victim of a crime rather than a botched paint job. "The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Poll," he wrote, misspelling "Pool." "Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair."

President Donald Trump reportedly spent nearly $15 million painting the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue. When the water turned green and the new paint started peeling off, he reached for the explanation he always reaches for: someone did this to him on purpose.

In a late-night Truth Social post Friday, Trump wrote that "we've had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool," and said law enforcement was "actively investigating." He provided no evidence. He claimed the algae was "75% gone," insisted the damaged section was small and would be fixed early the following week, and pinned the supposed sabotage on "radical left lunatics" and what he called "Dumocats." He tied it all to the numbers "8647" that had been scratched into the grass on the National Mall days earlier, slang widely read as a call to get rid of the 47th president.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to muse about who gets to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — and landed on an answer that put the United States, and himself, at the center of it.

In a post Wednesday, Trump declared there would be "NO TOLLS in the Hormuz Strait for 60 days" during what he called the "Cease Fire Period," and "NO TOLLS after the 60 day period has expired" — with one sweeping exception. The carve-out: tolls "imposed by and for the United States of America," should the underlying deal collapse.

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll was published Saturday with fresh data on how Americans are feeling about President Donald Trump and his handling of the economy, and the survey’s findings left MS NOW’s Alex Witt floored.

“The numbers for Trump's economy… they are not pretty,” Witt said.

In an apparent attempt to “jump on the World Cup bandwagon,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published what Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan described as an “anti-immigrant” social media post, but in doing so, “completely undermined” its own “far-right message,” as well as a core claim frequently made by President Donald Trump.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup, held jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, got off to an “unmistakably racist start,” Hasan argued in an analysis published Saturday in Zeteo, with participants from Somalia, Iraq and Uzbekistan facing challenges when entering the United States.

President Donald Trump floated a plan Saturday that he hoped will “totally discombobulate” journalists and make them “go totally crazy” – a plan he asked his supporters for feedback on in a post on social media.

That plan, as Trump explained, would be to rename Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the “National Immigration and Customs Enforcement" (NICE), an idea he floated last month to little fanfare. Such an action would require approval from Congress, something that appears unlikely given Republicans’ razor-thin majority.

Just hours after the Strait of Hormuz was closed again as the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran crumbles, President Donald Trump asked his followers Saturday to weigh in on what he called a “very important matter”: whether he should insult Democrats with the nickname “Dumocrats” or “Dumbocrats.”

“POLL: Which do you prefer, Dumocrat or Dumbocrat?” Trump asked his followers on his social media platform Truth Social.