Vandals slashed a 250-foot gash into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's newly renovated liner.
Now the same crowd that cheered the sabotage is using it to mock Trump's America 250th restoration.
Kelsey Grammer went on Jesse Watters and gave the one diagnosis that explains every attack on Trump – including this one.
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Vandalism Leads to Arrests and Federal Citations
Trump's renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was designed to make it gleam for America's 250th birthday.
The project – a $14.8 million effort to repaint the pool in American flag blue – reopened on June 6.
Within two weeks, vandals had gotten to work.
Trump revealed on Truth Social that someone used a knife or blade to carve a 250-foot gash through the brand-new liner.
Vandals poured corrosive chemicals into the water.
Fox News obtained exclusive Interior Department footage showing two suspects destroying and removing parts of the pool's lining on June 19.
An administration official confirmed five people have been arrested on vandalism charges, with five others issued citations and 14 police reports filed in total.
Among those arrested was former Olympic canoeist David Hearn – a registered Democrat and 10-time ActBlue donor who told reporters he was just a "curious citizen" touching the liner to feel how "rubbery" it was.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro told Fox News that anyone found to have introduced chemicals to generate the algae bloom faces more severe charges.
Trump inspected the damage personally and posted on Truth Social: "WOW, who would do such a thing? SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE!"
Kelsey Grammer Defends Reflecting Pool Renovation on Jesse Watters Primetime
The Left's media complex ran with the algae story around the clock – treating Trump's renovation like a punchline, running "Team Algae" protest photos, dispatching reporters to peel paint off the bottom.
Trump accused ABC's Jonathan Karl of pulling rubbery material off the liner during a live report.
Kelsey Grammer watched all of it and went on Jesse Watters Primetime to break it down.
"There is a virus that has infected a very small number of people, I think, who just want to tear things down," Grammer told Watters. "They've been consumed by hatred, and of course, hatred ends up basically destroying you."
He wasn't finished.
"I pray for them. I pray for everyone to find a decent sentiment in their hearts about this country about the people who run it these days," Grammer added.
Grammer was on the show to promote The Patriot War, his Fox Nation series following the soldiers, generals, and statesmen who bled through the Revolutionary War to hand future generations a country worth keeping.
He also announced a new nonprofit called the American Revelation – built around the idea that Americans can still fall in love with their country if someone shows them how.
"We're trying to point the way to a process by which you could actually fall in love with your country," Grammer explained. "And that's a very important thing to me."
Hollywood Sits Out America 250th Anniversary While Frasier Star Flies the Flag
While the Left organized protest chants at the Reflecting Pool – "Let's grow algae, let's grow!" – Kelsey Grammer was hosting a Fox Nation series about the men who bled at Valley Forge to give those protesters the freedom to act like fools.
Not a single major Hollywood studio dropped a patriotic film for America's 250th milestone.
The gap was filled by Angel Studios, Hillsdale College, and Fox Nation – outlets the entertainment establishment actively sneers at.
Grammer has hosted multiple Fox Nation history programs, is starring in Angel Studios' Young Washington alongside Ben Kingsley, and just signed on to host NBC's The Great American Journey for the 250th anniversary.
His grandfather fought 28 months in the South Pacific in World War II.
He had teachers who made the Founding Fathers feel like personal friends.
That's the America Kelsey Grammer is protecting – not just in front of cameras, but with his name, his time, and his nonprofit dollars.
The vandals pouring chemicals into Trump's Reflecting Pool chose a different legacy – tearing down what other Americans spent millions to build.
"It's worth loving, and it's great that we've been given this chance to see [the United States] in the eyes of so many of our European fellows and South American fellows," Grammer said.
With the World Cup drawing international visitors to Washington right now – all of them marveling at American hospitality and culture – the contrast is impossible to miss.
Fans from Europe and South America are seeing the United States fresh, without the baggage of four years of left-wing media telling them to hate it.
Those visitors are seeing exactly what Grammer sees.
The people trying to destroy the Reflecting Pool before America's birthday don't speak for this country.
Kelsey Grammer does.
Sources:
- Nora Moriarty, "Kelsey Grammer Sends Message to Trump Detractors Obsessed With Reflecting Pool, Shares Prayer for Country," Fox News, June 23, 2026.
- "Jesse Watters Primetime Obtains Exclusive Tapes of the Alleged Reflecting Pool Vandals," Fox News, June 23, 2026.
- "Olympic Canoeist Charged in Reflecting Pool Vandalism Tied to ActBlue," Fox News, June 22, 2026.
- Christian Toto, "Patriot War Goes Where Hollywood Won't for 250th Birthday," Hollywood in Toto, June 20, 2026.
- "Kelsey Grammer to Host Hearst's The Great American Journey for NBC," Variety, June 18, 2026.