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The Reflecting Pool drama says everything about how the administration operates.

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It looks like we found the Reflecting Pool vandal.

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-- Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 8:27 AM · Jun 26, 2026

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The list:

1. Devise unnecessary spectacle.
2. Disregard expertise.
3. Bypass normal procedures.
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post).
5. Spend way more than estimated.
6. Ignore the haters.
7. Realize it is not going well.
8. Bypass normal procedures once again.
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage.
10. Redeclare victory.

"This leaves three steps to come in the future. If patterns hold, we should expect 11. More blaming (one contractor told Politico the repairs to the lining will take weeks), followed by 12. Losing interest. And then, of course, the most important one of all. The foundation upon which every Trump debacle is built. The perpetual-motion device of a petulant president:

13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-27 05:45 AM | Reply

Fueled by a horrendous amount of MAGAt bootlicking and enabling.

"But the Emperor has nothing at all on!" said a little child.
Hans Christian Andersen
"The Emperor's New Clothes"

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-27 05:49 AM | Reply

Hi Doc Sarvis

Last night I had to decide between Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr or Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac.

Glad I chose Balzac. He would have written a vicious whirlwind of words about lumpenfleisch Dummkopf Trumpf.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-27 05:56 AM | Reply

Might these 13 points provide the outline for a performance marrying Alfred Jarrys Ubu Roi with the movie Idiocracy?

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-27 07:00 AM | Reply

"What Happened To Me"

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-27 11:10 AM | Reply

Non-paywall version of the cited article ...

The 13 Steps of a Trump Fiasco
www.aufamily.com

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-27 06:32 PM | Reply

Trump = failure

#7 | Posted by cbob at 2026-06-27 07:39 PM | Reply

Interesting article. By the way

RELEASE THE TRUMP EPSTEIN FILES ...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2026-06-27 08:34 PM | Reply

14 blame your predecessors even though they've been out of office for years and the event happened on Orange Adolf's watch.

#9 | Posted by a_monson at 2026-06-27 09:11 PM | Reply

Life can be weirdly funny. Laughed like hell at some of the comments and sites that are here, including the pictures of the motorcade driving over the empty pool. I mean, what can possibly happen bad if one hires almost entirely incompetent people who are willing to be totally loyal to the cult?
Yeah, Cue the massive hurricanes about to flatten parts of Florida, after which Trump will not accept blame for the lack of FEMA help.

#10 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-28 08:29 AM | Reply

Yeah, Cue the massive hurricanes about to flatten parts of Florida, after which Trump will not accept blame for the lack of FEMA help.
#10 | POSTED BY HUGHMASS

Didn't you know? That's a wind farm problem.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-28 08:40 AM | Reply

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