this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
258 points (99.6% liked)

politics

30907 readers
1644 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles. Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to US politics and contain quality and original content. Social Media adjacent hosts like Substack are allowed, but ONLY if they tie back to a company/subsidiary. No personal or friend group blogs and no self-promotion. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and re-hosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing other users of being bots or paid actors.
  3. No memes, trolling, misinformation, or low-effort posts/comments (including reposts). If you see posts like this that anger you, do not engage. Report, block, and live a happier life than they do. Any slap-fight is subject to comment removals. Fights full of rule violations will result in temporary bans to cool off.
  4. No manipulating votes via bots or alt accounts; this will result in permanent bans. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in an account ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be permanently banned.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules and use critical thinking when reading, posting, and commenting. Users that repeatedly have comments or posts removed, weaponize reports, or violate the code of conduct, will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. The reason(s) behind moderator action(s) are publicly available through the Modlog.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 94 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Trump acknowledges he tried to ruin an Olympian's life because he's a shitty piss baby loser.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's wild is that he or his admin were claiming they had photo and/or video evidence of someone cutting the pool.

More journalists need to ask him and his bootlicks why they lied about it earlier. And frame it that way: "if you are admitting you have no evidence now, why did you lie about that earlier?"

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 weeks ago

We all have evidence of who wrecked it. This is him taking his motorcade across it right after it was sealed:

President Donald Trump took an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.” He did more than just see it — the president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement. The new blue coating will hide the pool's gray stone, a color Trump said was “never good.” The project cost nearly $2 million, he said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDtYhwhD18

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Trump ~~acknowledges he~~ tried to ruin ~~an Olympian's~~ a person's life because he's a shitty piss baby loser.

Something that can be said literally every day.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

One common element of fascism is that problems, even problems that were obviously made by the fascists themselves, are opportunities to blame "others."

Usually, these others are a category of people who the fascists wish to victimize, but they can literally be anybody convenient, like in this case.

Fascists will also even blame other fascists who supported them in the past. Just look at how often Trump blames and fires people who he appointed and who were only doing what he wanted them to do.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Trump nonetheless again accused Hearn -- who pleaded not guilty to a felony destruction of property charge in July and has maintained he didn't damage the pool -- of intentional vandalism.

Lawsuit.

Accomplished people piss him off.