Trump posts AI image with Cabinet after Lincoln Memorial pool defacement

9 articles · Updated · The Daily Beast · May 2

The late-night Truth Social post showed Vice-President JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after vandals scrawled “86 47” nearby.
Trump shared the image at 11:03pm after an event in The Villages, Florida, then posted 10 more times in 41 minutes, including a Mount Rushmore mock-up and Iran-related imagery.
The reflecting pool is a Trump-backed renovation project to which he has contributed $1.5 million, while the National Park Service has previously said Mount Rushmore lacks suitable rock for another face.

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