The reflecting pool is inconsequential

[radical noodle]

2. John Heilman made a list

of all the ways the reflecting pool illustrates the whole trump second term:
1. trump's obsession with a trivial thing while more important things are being ignored
2. trump's self-aggrandizing belief that if he does something big it will make him be remembered as the one who did it
3. trump's unearned self certainty that he knows everything better than anyone else
4. trump's lack of regard for and even hostility toward expertise and his environmental ignorance
5. trump's self-dealing grift (I've got a pool guy!)
6. trump's amateur hour incompetence
7. trump's lashing out when it goes wrong
8. trump's scapegoating and blaming others for his failures
9. trump's then adding conspiracy theories to once again avoid blame (vandals damaging the pool)
10. trump's use of the legal and police system to shore up his claims
11. trump's demonization of the press for reporting his failures

The dead duck in the reflecting pool is the cherry on top of trump's shit sundae