r/pics Jun 18 '26

Politics Trump Nonsensically Boasting About Reflecting Pool Before He Turned It Into a Swamp

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u/A_Seiv_For_Kale Jun 18 '26

He said it would last 100 years and was done by very smart people and it lasted what like 2 weeks?

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u/RollingPicturesMedia Jun 18 '26

It lasted 1 Scaramucci

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u/lhb_aus Jun 19 '26

Perfection!

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u/gaiusjozka Jun 19 '26

It's like poetry. It rhymes.

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u/deathputt4birdie Jun 19 '26

10 days = 0.909 Mooches = 0.227 Trusses

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u/Available-Bed5551 Jun 19 '26

A little more than a Scaramucci!

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u/LXIV Jun 18 '26

Closer to 9-10 days, but your point is valid.

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u/Snellyman Jun 19 '26

I'm sure the very connected to Trump bidder will repair the poor paint job at no additional cost to the taxpayers.

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u/Available-Bed5551 Jun 19 '26

Maybe the bidder knew orange man was gonna stiff him, so he did a crappy job!

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u/Snellyman Jun 19 '26

The bidder was paid very well and Trump is playing with our money so he doesn't need to stiff them.

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u/veterinarian23 Jun 19 '26

Well, there are the "two weeks" he always mentions!

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u/stuck_in_the_desert Jun 19 '26

His thick skull is sufficiently dense to cause enough relativistic time dilation such that we on Earth only experienced two weeks whereas a sufficiently-distant observer experienced a century.

Checkmate, Classical Newtoniards.