India, June 29 -- US President Donald Trump sparked intense political and scientific debate on Sunday after publishing a sweeping 594-word text declaration alleging that "Radical Left Vandals" committed domestic sabotage by using illegal chemicals to generate an overnight outbreak of "criminally made algae" inside the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

In a fiery series of statements published on Truth Social, the US president claimed absolute victory over the aquatic scum, asserting that the physical contamination had been successfully purged by federal remediation teams. The monumental meltdown follows weeks of public scrutiny after the landmark National Mall water basin, fresh off a highly controversial $14.2 million be...