2026-06-22T19:23:42.216Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-vandalism
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周一呼吁，对他指控破坏了新近翻新但迅速恶化的国家广场倒影池的人提起严重刑事诉讼，这些指控可能导致长期监禁。
在Truth Social的一篇帖子中，这位总统对该水池的状况表示哀叹，称其遭到了“破坏”。
“请记住，破坏此类设施甚至企图破坏，都将面临10年监禁——这项法律将得到全面执行！”总统在Truth Social上写道。
尽管华盛顿特区的检察官尚未正式提起诉讼，但司法部将在未来几天内决定，将如何从严追究上周末因水池底部蓝色涂层剥落而被捕并收到传票的人员责任。这项耗资1400万美元的翻新工程是特朗普推动的华盛顿特区众多建筑项目之一。
与此同时，国民警卫队队员、公园警察和其他执法人员周一全天驻守在倒影池周边。
美国公园警察最初援引的是华盛顿特区当地高等法院的轻罪指控，包括破坏公物、行为不检或损毁公共财产。
但特朗普的帖子暗示，如果美国检察官珍妮娜·皮尔罗认为有必要，这些案件可能会被以更严重的罪名起诉。
华盛顿特区美国检察官办公室表示，其仍在审查上周末开出的多份传票，但尚未在法庭提起任何诉讼。
皮尔罗上周末在福克斯新闻节目中表示，那些破坏或企图破坏水池的人将“在华盛顿特区接受刑事司法系统的审判”。
“已有多人收到传票，这些案件将得到最严厉的起诉，”皮尔罗说，“如果有人向倒影池中投放更严重的物质，导致藻类大量繁殖或更严重的问题，我们将考虑提出更严重的指控。”
如果造成的损失数额巨大，联邦法院可以以破坏政府财产罪对行为人提起重罪指控。这类联邦刑事指控最高可处以25万美元罚款或10年监禁，不过实际判处最高刑期的情况极为罕见。
截至目前，前奥运会皮划艇选手戴维·赫恩告诉CNN，警方在他触碰了从水池底部部分脱落的蓝色材料后将其逮捕。该水池于本月早些时候完成耗资数百万美元的翻新工程后重新开放。
赫恩表示，一名国家公园管理局工作人员曾警告他不要伸手入水，随后公园警察就给他戴上了手铐。他否认破坏了水池，称自己只是出于好奇。他的首次庭审定于7月9日举行。
内政部发言人告诉CNN，已有5人因破坏水池被逮捕，另有5人收到联邦传票。该发言人表示，目前已有14份关于破坏公物的警方报告提交。
“美国公园警察将继续履行其首要职责，维护我们国家首都的法律和秩序，”该发言人补充道。
公园警察周一未回应进一步的问询，包括被控破坏水池人员的身份信息。
这起持续发酵的事件已成为某种政治上的罗夏墨迹测验：对特朗普的支持者而言，总统所称的破坏行为是特朗普反对者不择手段破坏总统美化首都努力的最新例证。
对总统的批评者而言，这场拉锯战再次表明，尽管美国与伊朗爆发冲突并导致汽油和食品价格上涨，特朗普似乎仍一心扑在他的多项翻新工程上。
一家非营利组织的律师在接受负责该案件的华盛顿特区法官询问时表示，近期出现的藻类爆发和底部涂层剥落，进一步证明了他有必要要求政府遵守相关程序步骤——而政府为了快速完成翻新工程一直回避这些步骤。该组织此前就政府实施水池翻新工程的方式提起诉讼。
“公众如今正在见证，当各机构为了赶白宫设定的武断截止日期，仓促推进考虑不周的计划时，会发生什么，”律师们在周一提交的法庭文件中写道，“当被告方试图摆脱他们自己造成的混乱局面并修复倒影池时，他们能够也应该做到法律要求的那样：与专家和公众进行磋商，基于法律规定的咨询程序做出知情的最佳决策，而不是再次仓促推出不成熟的方案。”
特朗普对破坏联邦财产的立场，与他在第二任期首批官方行动中赦免2021年1月6日国会大厦骚乱的1000多名参与者形成鲜明对比——其中包括那些破坏美国国会大厦的人。
在周一的同一条帖子中，总统在没有提供证据的情况下称，水池上有一处300英尺长的“裂口”，水中还被“非法投放”了化学品。特朗普此前曾称该裂口长250英尺。
正如CNN此前报道的那样，国家公园管理局工作人员上周向水池中倾倒了加仑量级的过氧化氢，以应对长期困扰该水域的藻类问题。
特朗普还抱怨本月早些时候有人在倒影池附近的一片草地上蚀刻了巨大的“8647”字样。特朗普政府将这个短语解读为对总统的生命威胁，而特朗普的反对者则表示，这只是表示反对第47任总统的意思。
CNN的德文·科尔为本报道贡献了内容。
Trump threatens serious criminal penalties for those he says ‘vandalized’ the Reflecting Pool
2026-06-22T19:23:42.216Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-vandalism
President Donald Trump called Monday for those he accused of vandalizing the newly renovated, and now quickly deteriorating, Reflecting Pool on the National Mall to face serious criminal charges that could result in lengthy prison sentences.
In a Truth Social post, the president lamented the state of the pool, which he said had been “Vandalized.”
“Please remember that there is a 10 year prison sentence for the destruction, or even the attempted destruction, of such things – Which will be fully enforced!” the president wrote on Truth Social.
While prosecutors in Washington, DC, haven’t yet formally brought charges, the Justice Department will need to decide in the coming days how aggressively it will pursue people who were arrested and cited over the weekend as the pool’s bottom blue layer was peeling off. The recent $14 million renovation is one of many architectural projects in the nation’s capital that Trump has boosted.
Meanwhile, National Guard members, Park Police and other law enforcement were present around the Reflecting Pool on Monday.
The violations cited by the US Park Police, at least initially, are misdemeanors in DC’s local Superior Court – for vandalizing, disorderly conduct or defacing public property.
But Trump’s post suggested that the cases could be charged as more serious crimes if US Attorney Jeanine Pirro decides they should be.
The US attorney’s office for the District of Columbia says it is still reviewing a handful of citations issued over the weekend but hasn’t yet brought any charges in court.
Pirro, speaking on Fox News over the weekend, said those who vandalized or tried to vandalize the pool will “face the criminal justice system in DC.”
“There are several citations that have been handed out to individuals, and these are cases that will be prosecuted to the full extent,” Pirro said. “If there are more serious products that are put into the Reflecting Pool to create more algae or a bigger problem, then we’ll consider more serious charges.”
A destruction of government property offense could be charged as a felony in federal court if the damage is pricey. That type of federal criminal charge carries a maximum fine of up to $250,000 or 10 years in prison, though maximum sentences are exceedingly rare in practice.
So far, one person, David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, told CNN police arrested him after he touched a flap of blue material that partially detached from the bottom of the pool, which reopened earlier this month following the multi-million-dollar renovation.
Hearn said a National Park Service worker warned him not to reach into the water before he was handcuffed by Park Police. He denied vandalizing the pool and said he was simply curious. His first court appearance is set for July 9.
A Department of Interior spokesperson told CNN that five people had been arrested for vandalism, while an additional five people were issued federal citations. Fourteen police reports have been filed for vandalism, the spokesperson said.
“The U.S. Park Police will continue to carry out their number one duty of upholding law and order in our nation’s capital,” the spokesperson added.
The Park Police didn’t respond on Monday to further inquiries, including about the identities of the people accused of vandalizing the pool.
The ongoing saga has become a sort of a political Rorschach test: For Trump supporters, the vandalism alleged by the president is the latest example of Trump opponents stopping at nothing to wreck the president’s efforts to beautify the nation’s capital.
For the president’s critics, the back-and-forth demonstrates yet another way in which Trump seems to be preoccupied with his multiple renovation projects despite the war with Iran and the resulting high prices for gas and groceries.
Lawyers for a nonprofit suing over how the administration carried out the pool renovation also told the DC judge overseeing the case that the recent algae blooms and peeling bottom reinforce the need for him to require the administration to follow certain procedural steps that they’ve been bypassing to get the renovation done quickly.
“The public is now witnessing what happens when, instead, agencies barrel ahead with ill-conceived plans in a hasty manner to meet an arbitrary deadline imposed by the White House,” the lawyers wrote in court papers filed Monday. “As Defendants determine how to get out of their self-created mess, and restore the Reflecting Pool, Defendants can and should do what the law requires: Engage with experts and the public, and make an informed decision about what is best based on the consultations mandated by the law, instead of once again rushing ahead with half-baked ideas.”
Trump’s stance on the destruction of federal property also contrasts with his pardoning of over 1,000 participants in the January 6, 2021, insurrection – including those who vandalized the US Capitol – in one of the first official acts of his second term.
In the same post on Monday the president, without providing evidence, said there was a 300-foot “gash” into the pool and “illegally placed” chemicals in the water. Trump had previously said the gash was 250 feet long.
As CNN has reported, National Park Service workers last week dumped gallons of hydrogen peroxide into the pool to help combat an algae issue that had been plaguing the body of water.
Trump also complained about a giant depiction of “8647” that was etched into a patch of grass near the Reflecting Pool earlier this month. The Trump administration has interpreted that phrase as a threat against the president’s life, while Trump opponents say it is merely meant to signal opposition to the 47th president.
CNN’s Devan Cole contributed to this report.