In a Monday evening tweet, The Bulwark reposted a clip of Trump telling reporters in May that the new coating was actually strong enough to withstand the exact thing he’s accusing vandals of doing.
“This will last for at least 50 years,” Trump said in May. “You’ll never have a leak. It’s very strong. You couldn’t, if you had a knife — I don’t want to give anybody ideas — if you had a knife, you can’t even cut it. It’s so strong, so powerful. It’s like powerful rubber.”
Then, on Monday, Trump was asked if the contractors of the Reflecting Pool’s renovation were to blame for its current condition. In response, the president said:
No, no, we had vandalism. No, vandals. We have a, I think, 290-to-300-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind.
Can’t fix stupid.