Christina Cotarucci

The other one was a company in Ohio called...

the owner of which was a major Trump donor and who Trump had actually called out from the stage of a big event for being such a big supporter.

Who owns a property next to Mar-a-Lago.

Oh my God, absolutely.

He's like, he has a perfect little mustache, you know, a double-breasted herringbone jacket in every photo that news reports are using, which I'm honestly kind of jealous of.

But all of which is to say this was not done on the up and up in the way that the federal government typically engages in these projects.

So it started when they finished, you know, the sealant on the bottom and painting it blue and they refilled it with water and almost immediately, like within a week, it was home to the largest algae bloom in at least five years, according to a Washington Post analysis.

It was hilarious to see Trump calling this thing American flag blue because it was actually bright green.

People who oppose President Trump really jumped on that failure because it was something you could really see with your own two eyes.

It actually reminded me of the debate over his inauguration crowds where, you know, he was like, there were more people than have ever been on the national...

This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.

And then there were actually pictures from above where you're like, no, the National Mall was not even half full.

Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts.

Then that precious blue paint that Trump had spent, you know, nearly $15 million of taxpayer money resealing started peeling up from the edges.

Yeah, this is where it really turns.

You know, it would be farcical if people weren't actually being criminalized for this, but, you know, people were reaching into this putrid water, picking pieces of the pool's lining out of the water, then were arrested by park police for vandalizing federal property.

No, I mean, this has really taken the shape of just about every controversy around President Trump's failures, where his supporters immediately jumped to conspiracy theories.

So people were saying that some bureaucrats had put fertilizer in the pool to make the algae bloom.

President Trump was saying, yeah, that someone had come in with a box cutter and cut a 350-foot gash down the reflecting pool.

I mean, look, I saw this thing peeling up like skin peeling off of a sunburn.