Donald Trump’s planning to renovate Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool doesn’t seem to be going quite as planned. Now, comedian Seth Meyers tears into the president after the appearance of green algae in the pool. In his latest monologue, the late-night talk show host shared his thoughts on the reflecting pool turning green despite its recent multi-million dollar restoration, stating that Trump truly turned the iconic structure into a “swamp.”
Seth Meyers jokes about Donald Trump’s reflecting pool
Recently, on Late Night with Seth Meyersthe titular host slammed the Republican leader after the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green due to an unprecedented growth of algae.
“Trump gave a no-bid contract to a friendly company with an inflated profit margin for a project no one asked for, and in the process took an iconic American institution and turned it green,” noted Seth Meyers. June 17 episode of his show.
Meyers then cut to a segment called ‘The Metaphor Is Too Obvious’, stating, “Guys, the metaphor is too obvious. I mean, do I really have to explain it to you? My whole job here is to come out and make ridiculous metaphors, but real life is already a metaphor.”
“He (Trump) said he was going to ‘drain the swamp,’ and he literally drained a pool or a lake or a small ocean and created an actual swamp. At this point, I might as well just quit and move to the Bahamas so I can swim in a pool that’s actually turquoise… By the way, ‘vomit green’ isn’t some evil media that offended people. at the reflecting pool says,” the 52-year-old comedian added.
Furthermore, Seth Meyers even mocked Fox News reporters for trying to defend Donald Trump by claiming that the reflecting pool was still ‘American flag blue’. “We can see it right behind you! It’s so green it looks like the Ninja Turtles are crawling out,” he joked.
In particular, the Trump administration had spent an estimated $15 million on the reconstruction of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Originally reported by Apoorv Rastogi on Mandatory.
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