Donald Trump reshared more than 50 posts on Truth Social late Monday that attacked former President Barack Obama, former President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while also urging the arrests of former FBI director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan and special counsel Jack Smith. Between 10:15 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. EDT, the posts pushed false election conspiracies, called Obama a traitor and repeated baseless claims that he plotted a coup against Trump through the Russiagate scandal.
The barrage also included calls for Clinton to be sent to Haiti and a repost of a message from Michael Flynn saying, “We had a fake president for 4 years. Our country has yet to recover.” In one response, Trump demanded that the Justice Department arrest his political enemies for treason and added, “They are working hard!”
The online campaign came as Trump was fighting on another front over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Earlier Tuesday, he attacked a New York Times report that the Interior Department is now preparing to pay $13.1 million for repair work on the pool, far above the $1.8 million he had previously claimed. A Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings was awarded a no-bid contract for the work last month.
Trump accused the newspaper of “trying to justify Obama and Biden’s expensively botched attempt at fixing the long broken, unsightly, and unsanitary Reflecting Pool.” He also said the project was “not just a paint job,” calling it “a deeply complicated work of smart and beautiful construction,” and said his own plan would create a “far superior Reflecting Pool for 5 or 6 Million Dollars” that could be finished in “2 weeks rather than 4 years.”
The fight over the pool escalated Monday when the Cultural Landscape Foundation sued the Trump administration in federal court to block the repair and repainting. The group argued the repainting was “blatantly unlawful” and said the pool floor’s dark grey finish is a deliberate design choice, underscoring that the dispute is about more than maintenance.
Taken together, the two flashpoints show a familiar Trump pattern: political grievances and federal projects are being pushed together in public, with each new fight feeding the other. The Truth Social posts revived false claims about the 2020 election and Russiagate, while the Reflecting Pool lawsuit raises the prospect that the administration will have to defend not just the price of the work, but the project itself.
