
It turns out that ABC News isn’t the only outlet on President Donald Trump’s naughty list over reflecting pool reporting.
While the president is threatening ABC with another lawsuit, that doesn’t mean that CBS News is exempt from his wrath. While speaking to reporters in the Oval Office during an executive order meeting on Monday, he sparred with Ed O’Keefe over the cost of the reflecting pool renovation.
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“One of the things we did is over 50 fountains and statues. Most of which were in horrible shape. All of them were bad. Some were just absolutely horrible. Graffiti, you couldn’t even see the stone. They’ve always been fixed. We also fixed the reflecting pool. In fact, if you go over there right now, it looks very good. It’s up. They put — somebody said, put fertilizer in the water. If you do that, they get algae. That doesn’t matter. That has been purified. It’s dead, laying at the bottom. They’re taking it out. They vacuumed it out. It will be back to health pretty soon. We’re going to have to let the water out to fix the two little areas where they were cut. We’ll fix that. It’s not leaking or anything. It has a base underneath,” he explained.
“Part of what’s curious about this situation is we stood here with you in April when you first revealed the plans,” O’Keefe explained.
“I said what?” Trump asked.
“In April, when you showed us pictures of what you were gonna do. You said you had a guy that was going to do it in a week for a million dollars. It’s been two months, $16-and-a-half million,” the reporter continued.
“Well, okay, are you ready? Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever heard of him?” Trump asked. “He spent two years and over $100 million on trying to fix it. You know what happened to it? It never opened. He took the water from the river. You know about that, right? It turned out to be putrid, and it destroyed the whole thing. Spent over $100 million. Him and [former President Joe] Biden together spent $147 million. You know what happened? Never opened. You don’t mention that, right? We spent about 10. Many of the — much of the money are park workers. They’re there whether they do this or not, as you know. They work in the park, and they’re very good workers. They did a great job. So, they were going to spend $300 to $400 million. You know that. And it was going to take four years. I spent about six, seven weeks, and I spent, probably in terms of — probably about $10 million. Around $10 million. They say 16, but a lot of those workers, work for the same thing. So they were going to spend $400 million. I spent 10. They were going to spend four years. I spent two months, maybe? Less? And I have a better product. Now, I can’t help if somebody goes in with a knife and starts hacking it up. And we also have pictures of it.”
“Can you release the photos? We’ve been asking for that,” O’Keefe pressed.
“Yeah, at the right time, you’ll see it,” Trump responded. “In court. You’ll see it in court. All you have to do is call the Parks Department. Call the Department of Interior. And, I don’t know if their lawyers will allow you to speak to them because, you know, you write fake — you write fake news.”
