Wallace Mocks Trump’s 61% Disapproval After Lincoln Pool Chart Compares Waterway With 3 Skyscrapers
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Updated · ms.now · Jun 5
Wallace Mocks Trump’s 61% Disapproval After Lincoln Pool Chart Compares Waterway With 3 Skyscrapers
1 articles · Updated · ms.now · Jun 5
Summary
Nicolle Wallace said she felt “secondhand embarrassment” after airing President Donald Trump’s Oval Office pitch for a chart comparing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s length with three skyscrapers.
The chart — titled “Our Pool is Bigger than Skyscrapers” — lined up the pool against the Empire State Building, Willis Tower and One World Trade Center, a comparison Wallace said “makes no sense at all.”
Wallace said her team had to verify the clip was real and not AI or a comedy sketch, calling it part of a Trump presidency now in a “‘My Pond is Bigger Than Your House’” phase.
She tied the episode to broader voter frustration over gas, child care, healthcare, the economy and the war with Iran, arguing Trump is focused on spectacle instead of cost-of-living concerns.
That disconnect, Wallace said, is showing up in polling: the latest YouGov/Economist survey put Trump’s disapproval at 61%, a record high.