Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has used artificial intelligence on Truth Social to post a flurry of synthetic content that mocks his rivals while glorifying himself. Barack Obama was arrested. President Trump dumps excrement on protesters. And Trump styled himself like Jesus.
His latest AI post takes a surreal twist, with a video depicting himself refilling the Lincoln Memorial’s reflective pool with human tears.
A six-second video shared Thursday night shows the 79-year-old president grabbing a hose attached to a tank containing a human head. The tank appears to be half-filled with tears, and as President Trump smiles, the tears flow through the hose and into the pool.
This appears to be a reference to the widely circulated “Liberal Crying Woman” video, which showed a woman wearing a green jacket screaming during President Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.
Truth Social users ate it up.
“It’s great to have a president smart and honest enough to make jokes like that,” one person wrote, while another agreed: “Scientists are calling this a breakthrough in renewable water sources!”
The president’s post came as workers began pouring water into the reflecting pool on Thursday after weeks of renovation work to coat the bottom of the basin in “Stars and Stripes Blue.”
The Republican president announced the plan in April, saying he was prompted to take action after friends complained about the condition of the pool. He also accused his Democratic predecessors of leaving the nearly 600-foot reflecting pool in disrepair.
According to new york timesthe Trump administration awarded a no-bid contract, usually reserved for emergencies, to a longtime contractor known as the president’s “pool man” to carry out the repairs.
“This project is being completed at ‘Trump speed’ to ensure the iconic landmark is fully restored in advance of the 250th anniversary celebrations,” White House Press Secretary Taylor Rogers previously said in a statement. independent person.
President Trump had estimated the project would cost up to $2 million, but federal records show contracts related to the work total at least $14.8 million.
Despite the increased price tag, the repairs do not address the pool’s underlying plumbing system, which, if damaged, can cause algae to overwhelm the basin. times Reported.
On Thursday, the White House shared a photo of the pool being refilled, writing to X, “The water is flowing, the reflecting pool is reflecting, and D.C. is looking better than ever. We are truly back. Thank you, President Trump.”
The pool is expected to be full by Sunday, according to documents filed in court by the administration.
This is just one of the many changes the former real estate developer has made to the nation’s capital. Since returning to office, he has paved the Rose Garden, begun work on the White House Ballroom, and announced plans to build a 250-foot-tall Victory Arch on the banks of the Potomac River.
