{"id":55265,"date":"2026-06-24T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-why-the-washington-dc-reflecting-pool-became-a-global-talking-point\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:12:28","slug":"watch-why-the-washington-dc-reflecting-pool-became-a-global-talking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-why-the-washington-dc-reflecting-pool-became-a-global-talking-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Why the Washington DC Reflecting Pool became a global talking point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Donald Trump says the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the US capital is probably going to be drained again. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chunks of blue paint are peeling off the bottom just two weeks after multi-million dollar renovations were completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has become a talking point around the world. BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton explains how we got here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced by Tom Joyner, graphics by Mark Edwards.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cy4ed2dkxv1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump says the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the US capital is probably going to be drained again. Chunks of blue paint are peeling off the bottom just two weeks after multi-million dollar renovations were completed. It has become a talking point around the world. BBC Verify&#8217;s Jake Horton explains how we got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[502,2553,10499,15640,7177,3719,1509],"class_list":["post-55265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-global","tag-point","tag-pool","tag-reflecting","tag-talking","tag-washington","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55267,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265\/revisions\/55267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}