Of all the Trump follies, my favorite is fast gelling as the soup green algae of the Reflecting Pool.
Even the name is ironic, as it reflects just what Trump is.
Trump decides to show the world what a force of creativity and restoration he is, and he tries to recapitulate his one success--the skating rink in Central Park--by demolishing a part of a house which does not belong to him, by hanging banners on federal buildings, by proposing an outlandish Arc De Triumph at the entrance to the National Cemetery for actual real soldiers as opposed to heel spur soldiers who never actually served but sort of did by going to military school.
But his piece de resistance, was going to be the Reflecting Pool, which he promised would be American flag blue, and although he did not promise Mexico would pay for it, he did arrange for a no bid contract with a swimming pool guy he knew, but within days of completion, the vinyl bottom split apart and floated in pieces up to the slimy surface and the water turned green with algae, just the way all the experts said it would.
But Mr. Trump does not believe in experts any more than his Secretary of Health believes in vaccines.
It was just so predictable.
And it was not Trump's fault.
Vandals vandalized his treasure, although none of the security cameras detected any vandals. But as any fan of the Jeffrey Epstein saga will know, surveillance cameras do not always catch every malfeasance.
Well, there was one vandal, Davey Hearn, who stopped by on a bicycle ride along the mall, where he saw a floating piece of blue debris and tried to fish it out and was arrested for destruction of government property.
Davey Hearn, it turns out, is an American Olympic canoe guy, and he has a history with the Park Police, so he's lucky they didn't send him immediately to Alligator Alcatraz or deport him.
But, I digress. Even without Davey, the story is just so great.
The water is most determinedly green, not blue, and the Green Party is usually an environmentally committed party in most countries, and Mr. Trump says global climate change is a hoax, so he knows hoaxes.
King Canute ordered the sea to stop its tides.
The ocean did not pay him any mind.
King Donald ordered the algae to stop blooming. It stayed green.
Mr. Trump is not unreasonable; he would have done a deal for a blue bloom.
But the algae has been no more accommodating than the Strait of Hormuz has been willing to open up. Mr. Trump has trouble with water. Just ask Atlantic City.
And we all know, it's not easy being green.
