Trump blames ‘VANDALS’ for damaging National Mall grass after World War II Memorial graffiti

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President Donald Trump blamed vandals for destroying a stretch of grass on the National Mall between the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial, days after vandals allegedly filled the World War II Memorial fountain with soap, causing it to bubble.

“Look what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Anybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should go back to Law School!”

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