# Trump is lying about the Reflecting Pool

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Podcast: [The Drey Dossier](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-drey-dossier-7704467)
Published: 2026-07-04T01:40:00+00:00
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"They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete." Facade is definitely one word for it. The government paid somewhere between 6.8 and 14.6 million dollars to repaint the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Same contract, same job, two different federal databases, eight million dollars apart. That was the first thing that did not add up. Then it got worse... so I stopped following the money and started following the water. The full investigation: thedreydossier.substack.com TikTok / IG / X: thedreydossier Share this with someone who thinks the conversation about what is under the White House starts when Trump tells them it does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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