STEPHANOPOULOS: He promised it would be fixed for under $2 million. It's already cost more than $15 million with a no bid contract. The pool is going to be drained and you're putting out solicitations for new bids. So the pool is not fixed right now, is it? BURGUM:... Well it's fixed in the sense that it's no longer leaking 45,000 gallons a dayshow more

So it’s not fixed and you are just using flowery language to try and cover up the complete idiocy and incompetency of this administration.

I spent the 4th with family. A teenager who was with us had come back from a trip with her school friends to DC. She’s 16 and lives w/Trump voting parents. She showed me a pic on her digital camera of the reflecting pool clearly showing the lining coming up. No gashes. She put her hand in the water and got yelled at by the NG. She wasn’t arrested but this is all so completely stupid and Trump keeps doubling down on it. 🙄

I guess Burgum doesn't realize that when he's spewing his stupid lies about the reflecting pool, people conclude that everything else he says is likely a lie too.

Didn’t Donald Trump give the the Fed Chair Jerome Powell a hard time for coming in over budget? I think he tried to indict him over it. But Trump is way over budget on this reflecting pool - *crickets*

The Trump Administration replaced DEI with incompetent White people.

You know it’s bad when Burgum has been on two different shows this morning. Nobody else wants to defend Trump.

That pool coating will peel off again, because pedo trump friend & his criminal friend will keep using our USA taxpayers money in this scam to keep enriching themselves.

The Trump admin should never be allowed to any construction or refurbishing projects. They are delusional.

They all just lie lie lie lie lie

They need to send out a better salesman. I’m getting a vibe that no one is believing this.

My neck hurts from having to do this every time I hear a maga sycophant

Burgum is not America's friend. Anyone who spins and spins to just to not get fired is not worth having around. It is not fixed. The coating company says they have to drain it and make the repairs under warranty AFTER the 4th. Not repairing vandalism btw, repairing the failure.

Oh so now it's leaking? It's called failed joint expansions that failed twice in May

Blah blah blah blah . . . talk as fast as you can to get out the propaganda before anyone can question your bullshit. Nobody believes your lies anymore. He fucked up the reflecting pool and should pay to fix out of his own pocket. Which, frankly, seems to be our pockets these days . . .

The maga cult members are incapable of answering a single question w/o blaming Obama or Biden while not answering.

So the multiple cuts that add up to 350, caused algae AND LEAKing! I want a pair if the magic box cutters

It's no longer leaking, it's just peeling away like sunburned skin. So now we're gonna drain 6.5 million gallons for the third time, for repairs due to poor pitiful construction, (that's 3 years' worth of leaks.) Donald and his idiotic administration are a humiliating disgrace.

Was he able to answer with Trump’s d in his mouth?

George asked a yes or no question that he failed to answer. It's not fixed. It's a colossal disaster that's costing the American taxpayers additional money.

We have no idea what’s going on bc the tRUmp “administration” lies about everything and is incompetent, and the MSM is too afraid to tell the truth or do any investigative reporting.

The Trump admin has diverted funds away from the scattered national parks and spent it on projects in DC. Burghum is fessing up they did that and now backpedaling like they're gonna spread the money now. BS. BTW, the $34B spent yrs ago involved whole new filtration. Big diff!

Well dumb ass, the people that vandalized it should have to pay so it should be zero cost to us. If you support what they did then you should help pay.

So...no, it's not fixed and it never will be fixed thanks to your Dear Leader...

It was never “leaking” 45,000 gallons per day. Most of that was evaporation. That will now increase due to the dark blue surface.

So no. @SecretaryBurgum

TV hosts expecting Trump people to admit they're unethical, soulless slimeballs for whom the truth means nothing, ain't gonna happen.

"The vandals" It's just so ridiculous they think anyone is dumb enough to believe that.

Wait, they only need to fix 1/10th of 1% of the liner? @Grok - Trump and other administration officials have claimed vandals slashed 350ft of the liner in the reflecting pool. Burgum here is suggesting only 1/10th of 1% needs to be repaired. How many feet is 1/10th of 1% of the pool?

Trump had one job-hire a qualified contractor. He f’d it up spectacularly. 🙄😠

George was like a dog with a bone today. Loved it!

That this idiot can lie looking directly into the camera tells the story of who Trumpturd hires to work in his cabinet.

Remember how Trump went after Chairman Powell for over spend. Turns out wrongly. But the ballroom $200m now $1B+ too.

These assholes fixed the reflecting pool like Maybelline fixed Orange Blob's hands.