The “radical vandals” President Donald Trump blamed for ruining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have turned out not to be the culprits after all. Trump's repeated claims that his pricey Reflecting Pool renovation was ruined by "vandals" have blown up in his face. The office of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has admitted peeling paint in Donald Trump's Reflecting Pool were due to a botched installation. Drained reflecting pool shows no cut marks Donald Trump has claimed were made by "vandals." After the Reflecting Pool was drained to fix the damage, it was clear there were no slice marks that the president claimed existed.