Emergency cleanup crew sent into Trump Cabinet Meeting to mop up Pete Hegseth's saliva

President Donald Trump spent roughly 10 minutes of a high-stakes cabinet meeting on Wednesday — convened amid delicate negotiations to end the U.S. war with Iran — ranting about his efforts to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, falsely claiming predecessors wasted "hundreds of millions" on the landmark and repeatedly comparing it to a swimming pool.

"From 1922 on, it really never worked," Trump told cabinet members, calling the pool — which he repeatedly referred to as a "reflecting lake" — an embarrassment. "It was filthy dirty. It was Biden."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, apparently unfazed by the extended detour, used Trump's pool remarks as a springboard to discuss the Iran war — drawing a direct line between pool tiles and nuclear deterrence.

"Your efforts on the reflecting pool are actually a great segue," Hegseth said. "If you look at Washington and Lincoln, these are two men that faced monumental tasks and stood up in historic fashion... there's only one man over the course of both presidencies who has stood up and said they will never get a nuclear weapon."

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