I looked at our beautiful grass and I knew: VANDALS did this. Anybody who disagrees should go back to Law School!

I looked at the grass on the National Mall. It’s brown. SAD. Patchy. Dead-looking, the kind of dead-looking that requires a President of the United States to post a photograph of it on Truth Social — my Truth Social, the BEST Truth Social, very tremendous platform — on a Sunday night.

The same grass — the SAME grass — is where I built a stage and hosted a tremendous crowd for my Independence Day celebration earlier this summer. Beautiful celebration. The best. Historic. I chose the location. I ordered the stage. My crowd walked on the grass. Walked. Cheered. Walked some more. And now the grass is brown.

VANDALS did it. That’s the answer. VANDALS.

Let me tell you something about the grass on the National Mall, okay? The grass — the most beautiful grass you’ve ever seen, believe me, it was like a green carpet, and people were saying, “Sir, that’s the most beautiful grass we’ve ever seen.” And now — LOOK what the VANDALS did to it! They destroyed the grass, they destroyed the World War II Monument, they destroyed the Reflecting Pool — it’s a DISGRACE, a total disgrace, and the vandals should be ashamed of themselves, very ashamed.

I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I was busy. Very busy. Doing Presidential things. The brown came from somewhere else. Always does. Until Tuesday, when the very smart people, the BEST people, they came to me with tears in their eyes, Sir, they said, Sir, SIR, the grass, Sir, and I said, who did this, who are these people, and the smart people said, Sir, VANDALS, Sir.

People are saying — very smart people, the best people — they’re saying, “Donald, how do you know it’s vandals and not the grass from the July 4th celebration?” And I’ll tell you why, okay? Because I know, because I have the best instincts in the history of this Country, and I looked at that grass and I said, “That grass looks vandalized,” and sure enough, it was vandalized. The July 4th celebration was a TREMENDOUS success, the biggest crowds anyone has ever seen, the historians are saying, and the grass was PERFECT before the vandals came.

And the damage — it doesn’t stop at the grass, no sir. The World War II Monument, VANDALIZED. The Reflecting Pool, VANDALIZED. The whole Mall, VANDALIZED. Even though — and I want to be very clear about this — even though the Reflecting Pool was fine, completely fine, the finest Pool, before somebody — probably low IQ, very low IQ, maybe even the lowest IQ in the history of IQ — vandalized it with algae. And peeling paint. I’ve been blaming vandals for this Pool since June — the algae, the paint, the gash — and I will keep blaming vandals for this Pool until the Pool agrees with me, which it will, because the Pool loves me, tremendous Pool.

And I’ve been saying this since June — I say, “Look what they did to the most beautiful pool in the world.”

And the critics — the LOW IQ critics — they’re saying, “Oh, the grass was trampled from the celebration,” and I say, “Go back to Law School!” Go back to Law School! Because if you went to Law School, you’d know that the grass was VANDALIZED, it was vandalized, and the World War II Monument was vandalized, and the Reflecting Pool was vandalized. The lawyers use the word vandalized — I just used it, the lawyers will follow — and the word is tremendous, very legal word, beautiful word, and if you disagree you are low IQ and should go back to Law School, where the professors, the very smart professors, will explain the word vandalized to you while crying, the way smart people cry when I enter the room.

I know Law. Know it better than any lawyer. Better than any judge. Better than any Senator who ever sat in any Senate, and I sat in the BEST Senate, believe me.

The Reflecting Pool will be opened again, better than ever, shortly. SHORTLY. Better than it has ever been. Better than any Reflecting Pool in the history of reflection. Like a mirror, like ten mirrors, like a hundred mirrors — you will look into this Pool and see yourself, and the self you see will be the most beautiful self any Pool has ever reflected. The engineers, the BEST engineers, very smart engineers, they are saying this will be the greatest Pool, the most tremendous Pool, the Pool the historians will write about.

And me — a man who built a stage on this grass, drew a crowd onto this grass, and watched this grass turn brown on my watch — had absolutely nothing to do with any of it. I was somewhere. Far away. A tremendous distance, believe me. Don’t ask.

The grass will be FIXED, the World War II Monument will be FIXED, the Reflecting Pool will be FIXED — SHORTLY — and I say to the vandals, “You picked the wrong guy, because Diklis Chump — he’s not going to let you destroy the most beautiful grass in the history of the National Mall,” and the people who say otherwise — they’re very low IQ, very low IQ, and I feel bad for them, I really do, but they’re wrong, they’re completely wrong, and I’m right, I’m always right, and the vandals are going to be SORRY, they’re going to be very sorry, believe me.

This is a recurring pattern of mine — blame the vandals, blame Biden, blame the predecessors, blame the algae, blame the peeling paint — and the pattern is tremendous, the most tremendous pattern in the history of patterns, believe me.

The grass will be better than ever. SHORTLY.