What the Reflecting Pool Reflects About America
Trump Derangement Syndrome in liquid form
Daniel Greenfield
Jun 26, 2026
Over the last two weeks, the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial has been mentioned over 600 times in various news media outlets. During the same period, the Islamic terrorist massacres of Christians in Nigeria have only been mentioned around 40 times.
Why is the status of the algae in the reflecting pool more important than the lives of dozens of human beings? Part of the answer may lie in the inconvenient truth about who is doing the killing in Nigeria and who is being killed, but the other is Trump Derangement Syndrome in liquid form.
The renovation of the reflecting pool should be as apolitical as anything gets. Critical race theory has thus far failed to connect the reflecting pool to systemic racism (though no doubt if asked, its professors will claim that it was built by slaves), gender critical theory has nothing to say about the reflecting pool and ‘heteronormativity’ and the Marxists have failed to connect it to capitalism. Even the Hamas supporters have failed to show up waving their terrorist flags.
Unlike White House renovations and the battles over the renaming of the Lincoln Center, fixing the reflecting pool offers no specific benefits to Trump. And renovating it ought to have been a completely apolitical bipartisan issue with Democrats and Republicans agreeing to fix it up.
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