Can Tire Tracks Be Seen on Bottom of Lincoln Reflecting Pool?
Source: Newsweek
Published Jul 14, 2026 at 07:35 AM EDT updated Jul 14, 2026 at 09:57 AM EDT
What appear to be tire tracks have become visible on the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the landmark was drained for a second round of repairs, adding another point of intrigue to the Trump administration's troubled renovation project. As the pool is drained once again for repairs, photographs appear to show a series of parallel marks stretching across sections of the exposed pool floor.
The newly visible marks come amid continued debate over what caused damage to the recently renovated pool. President Donald Trump has repeatedly alleged that vandals slashed the pool's blue liner, prompting officials to drain the basin again to carry out repairs.
What Do the Images Show?
The photographs appear to show multiple sets of track-like impressions running across portions of the exposed bottom of the Reflecting Pool. It is not immediately clear what caused the marks. Maintenance crews, pumps, hoses and other equipment have been present around the site during the latest draining operation, and photographs from the scene have documented ongoing work by National Park Service personnel.
While some have suggested the marks resemble vehicle tracks, there is currently no public evidence indicating when they were made or whether they are connected to the repairs. The markings are likely to attract renewed attention because Trump's motorcade was driven across the drained Reflecting Pool during a highly publicized inspection of the project on May 7. Video posted by White House Communications Director Steven Cheung showed presidential vehicles traveling across the basin as Trump toured the renovation work.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/can-tire-tracks-be-seen-on-bottom-of-lincoln-reflecting-pool-12192582
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Yep. These are tire tracks in the reflecting pool. Sediment has built up on the indents.
You can see where the front tires turned in unison.
10 years prison for Trump!
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Reflecting Pool drained again, revealing tire tracks from Trump's convoy...vandalism MY ASS!!!
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4:22 PM · Jul 13, 2026


kentuck
(116,383 posts)Looks more like a tire track...
twodogsbarking
(20,137 posts)mpcamb
(3,254 posts)They came back when it turned into an open sewer.
With all the street cameras in Washington DC,
tell me how vandals wouldn't have been taped????
RustyWheels
(208 posts)Sorry, but Trump's motorcade went close to the center of the reflecting pool. The photo is of the edge.
That said, I would be surprised if the motorcade did not damage the coating where it was driven over. Sealants take anywhere from 24 hours to 28 days to cure, and Trump was driving on it before they had even finished.
BumRushDaShow
(174,475 posts)
(pic from whitehouse.gov)

calimary
(91,770 posts)Republicans would be blowing their gaskets if even ONE car driven by Dems did this.
Just showing off their bravado or something?
sboatcar
(947 posts)mahina
(20,932 posts)I don't know why there would be tracks from one vehicle when there were so many.
BumRushDaShow
(174,475 posts)along the edge, the pool is around 18" deep but in the center, it is around 30" deep. So there might be enough slope on each to the center to shift more vehicle weight into the slope on one side. I expect the shocks on those limos are amazing for a smooth ride. Alternately, there looked to be a NPS vehicle, probably good for all terrain, that was at the lead.
mahina
(20,932 posts)winstars
(4,285 posts)mahina
(20,932 posts)Deuxcents
(28,510 posts)Will they be reimbursed for expenses for lawyers, etc? Will Jeanne Pirro indict TSF?
mackdaddy
(2,002 posts)Actually one photo shows at least 12 vehicles in Trump's motorcade including two limos and ten armored suv's plus a couple of side by side vehicles.
From the photos it looks like this was done more than once.
twodogsbarking
(20,137 posts)UpInArms
(55,755 posts)Botany
(78,473 posts)Donny needs to pay back for all the initial expenses and for all the repair afterwards. He has made
billions in grifting, bribes, stealing money from the American people, and market manipulation.
Those vehicles didnt look like this.

"No, no, we had vandalism. No, vandals. We have a, I think, 290-to-300-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind."
LetMyPeopleVote
(184,952 posts)Karasu
(2,506 posts)was going to fuck it up, but there are (of course) layers on layers of incompetence to this shitshow.
Bayard
(30,930 posts)Except typical trump beating his chest, and making monkey sounds.
Deuxcents
(28,510 posts)And weeks and weeks of reviews
Bengus81
(10,749 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 15, 2026, 07:50 AM - Edit history (1)
Not me.
rickford66
(6,129 posts)Grokenstein
(6,481 posts)warmfeet
(3,370 posts)need to be arrested to distract from this evidence. Sheesh, it get's harder and harder to go along with all this bullshit. My cognitive dissonance is dissonatin real bad. JFC
IronLionZion
(51,766 posts)they are so sneaky like that.
It's just like how Antifa dressed up as MAGA to raid the Capitol on Jan 6.
Beartracks
(14,805 posts)I haven't paid much attention to Trump's vanity circuses, but I thought I saw a reference to that somewhere.
On edit: Oh, I see the pics of his vanity motorcade in the empty pool now, in the thread below. You'd have to be pretty stupid/biased/incompetent to arrest someone for TOUCHING the pool after the potential for damage beforehand by the President publicly DRIVING through it.
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NoMoreRepugs
(12,381 posts)rickyhall
(5,532 posts)calimary
(91,770 posts)Well be voting for a new POTUS in 2028. Thats gonna be most if not all that well hear and see in the news, over most of that year.
We may actually start hearing early coverage and commentary starting in January 2027. Newsfolks are already rarin to go, now!
Bengus81
(10,749 posts)was re-elected. That's the only thing keeping me going right now.
Time marches on.........
Blues Heron
(9,251 posts)Whenever the water paused, an algae line following the non flat contours of the bottom formed.
sheshe2
(99,311 posts)C Moon
(13,885 posts)cstanleytech
(28,725 posts)BumRushDaShow
(174,475 posts)The other question is - where is the "blue" liner?
Blues Heron
(9,251 posts)BumRushDaShow
(174,475 posts)(the segment repeats which accounts for for the total time)
Blues Heron
(9,251 posts)the middle.
BumRushDaShow
(174,475 posts)They seem to be confined to one section and it's possible that section was not cured yet when the convoy came through.
The other obvious possibility is when there were a million workers in the pool scraping algae off the bottom. It took a couple days to do.


You can how the liner was peeling away.
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Torchlight
(7,453 posts)Good luck
Bengus81
(10,749 posts)wind,ceiling fans and probably an open window. Anything that saves people money instead of more $$$ going to Trumps Energy Barons.
sl8
(17,164 posts)The president's motorcade drove through the drained Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in early May 2026 to survey ongoing work.
Jordan Liles
Published July 14, 2026
Claim: Photos from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's July 2026 draining show tire tracks left by U.S. President Donald Trump's motorcade from early May.
Rating: Miscaptioned
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maxsolomon
(39,590 posts)I doubt the pickups the NPS probably uses weigh what "The Beast" does, however. The question is what a 10-ton limousine would do to freshly applied truck bed liner - compress it? Dislodge it?
The "crack" could have occurred when heavy vehicles displaced concrete slabs as they rolled along one side, or onto it. Raise one side of a joint, the applied coating over it is stretched and splits.
The peeling feels more like an adhesion fail. Concrete surface wasn't clean enough, or the coating didn't fully dry between layers, or went underwater fully before curing, etc.

