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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - In-Town Pool Report #6: Reflecting Pool Quotes
President Trump said that damage to the reflecting pool was done by a vandal with "probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind." He said that damage was done also to the grass on the National Mall.
When asked how a vandel could get that close to the reflecting pool, given the increased National Guard and police presence in Washington, D.C., the president replied, "who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it?"
Asked for proof of the alleged crime, Trump replied, "let's put it this way, when you have a 350I think it's 350, not 250a 350 foot slit from one end to the other, you think that's proof?"
The president referred reporters to the Parks Department and to Sec. Burgum for additional information. He added of the slit in question, "I saw it."
Trump said of the algae bloom, "they put, somebody said, fertilizer in the water. If you put fertilizer in the water, you get algae, but somebody said they might have put fertilizer. They did something to create the algae."
He said that the water will need to be drained and that the pool will be fixed shortly.
Philip Wegmann
WSJ
Mon. Jun. 22, 4:51 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2069161995509666198

White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - In-Town Pool Report #5: Iran Quotes
Iran quotes are below. More to come. Please check against transcript.
Asked if future US strikes would necessarily risk economic catastrophe, should Iran violate the terms of the MOU, the president said "nuclear weapon supercedes depression."
"Depression is real bad. Nuclear weapon will cause depression much more quickly," Trump told your pooler. "The way we're doing it, we have the opposite of a depression," he said of the current deal that allows oil to flow through the Strait of Hormuz. "We are doing really well, the numbers are incredible."