New Delhi, Aug. 9 -- US President Donald Trump on Saturday (August 8) posted photographs showing what he described as "vandalism" at the iconic Washington landmark - Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool - while continuing to argue that vandals - rather than construction problems - were responsible for much of the damage. Trump posted two photographs showing what appeared to be graffiti and peeling coating at the pool.

The photographs come amid Trump's renewed criticism of Washington's top federal prosecutor after her office dropped criminal charges against a former Olympian accused of damaging the newly renovated Reflecting Pool.

Trump had earlier called on US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to reconsider her decision to...