President Trump is once again turning Truth Social into his personal art gallery — and this time, his targets are former President Barack Obama, former President Joe Biden, and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. On Monday, May 12, 2026, the president shared a jaw-dropping AI-generated image of the trio submerged up to their necks in a sewage-filled version of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, captioned simply, “Dumacrats Love Sewage.”
The post landed amid a flurry of activity from the commander-in-chief, who shared dozens of posts between Sunday, May 11, and Monday, May 12, many of them referencing his decision to repaint the iconic Washington D.C. landmark in what he has described as “American flag blue.”
A Truth Social Post That Raised Eyebrows
The artificially rendered picture showed Obama, Biden, and Pelosi submerged from neck to toe in the famed reflecting pool, except this version of the National Mall fixture was filled with human waste rather than water. It’s a far cry from the more glamorous AI image Trump shared earlier this month, which depicted him floating in a pristine version of the pool in an inflatable gold chair alongside Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and an unidentified woman in a gingham bikini.
The reflecting pool repaint is one of several large-scale beautification projects Trump has rolled out as the country approaches its 250th anniversary, part of an ongoing effort to leave his personal stamp on the nation’s capital.
Trump Touts the Project, Slams Predecessors
In a follow-up post, the president didn’t hold back when discussing the previous administrations’ attempts at fixing the 2,030-foot-long water feature, claiming his predecessors had failed where he succeeded.
“Obama and Biden, they say, spent over 100 Million Dollars, with years under construction, and it never worked — It leaked like a sieve, looked terrible, was closed most of the time, and was a complete disaster. They ultimately gave up on the project, declaring that it was impossible to fix,” Trump wrote, before lauding himself and Burgum for finally getting the job done.
The president has framed his approach as fundamentally different from his predecessors’, explaining that he instructed the Department of the Interior to “view this as a highly sophisticated swimming pool, not the leaking, dilapidated facade, joints and all, of a building.”
A Sharp Jab at a Reporter
About an hour before sharing the sewage image, Trump took aim at New York Times journalist David A. Fahrenthold, who on Monday co-authored an article with Luke Broadwater, indicating the cost of the pool project had ballooned to $13.1 million, despite Trump’s earlier claim it would be completed for $1.8 million.
“This is not just a paint job, like lowlife ‘reporter,’ David Fahrenthold, of the NYT so inaccurately and maliciously stated, it is a deeply complicated work of smart and beautiful construction. It won’t leak, it will shine, and be the pride of Washington D.C. for decades to come,” the president wrote.
Legal Trouble for the Repaint
The reflecting pool project hit its first legal snag on Sunday, May 11, when The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), an education and advocacy nonprofit, filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration had failed to have the project reviewed federally, as required by the National Historic Preservation Act.
The TCLF complaint marks the first formal legal challenge to one of Trump’s signature D.C. beautification projects, putting the future of the colorful renovation in question even as the president continues to celebrate its completion online.
Part of a Broader Pattern
The eyebrow-raising post comes just days after Trump called Obama “weak and stupid” in the wake of another round of failed peace negotiations with Iran. The president’s social media activity has long blended policy commentary, personal grievances, and AI-generated imagery, but Tuesday’s post marked one of the more visually striking entries in that catalog.
It’s also notable for targeting three of the Democratic Party’s most prominent figures in a single image — a former two-term president, his successor and the woman who twice served as speaker of the House. Pelosi, Obama and Biden have not publicly responded to the post.
For now, the reflecting pool remains the centerpiece of an unfolding political and legal story — one that pits the president’s vision for a refreshed National Mall against preservationists, journalists, and the predecessors he can’t seem to stop talking about. With the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding looming, the saga of the “American flag blue” pool seems unlikely to fade from the headlines anytime soon.