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Trump Says 6 Arrested, 7 Cited Over Reflecting Pool Damage

The president said the grass is being replaced and that some of the water will be drained ‘either immediately before or after the Fourth of July.’
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Trump Says 6 Arrested, 7 Cited Over Reflecting Pool Damage
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington on June 19, 2026. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch Times
Jackson Richman
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President Donald Trump said six people have been arrested and seven others have been cited over allegedly causing damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

In a June 23 post on Truth Social, Trump said that there was a 350-foot gash “made by a very sharp knife or razors.”

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Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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