Algae at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has once again captured the imagination of the Elitist Media Evening News, with accompanying significant coverage. In the process, other more pressing stories get boxed out of coverage. Watch as ABC dispatches Jon Karl to cover this national emergency: Trump-deranged @ABCWorldNews continues to cover the algae bloom at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as though it were a national emergency: DAVID MUIR: We turn now to the reflecting pool on the National Mall. Tonight, not only has the new blue turned green. Tonight, reports… pic.twitter.com/Xu7b82vD4H — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 19, 2026 ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT 6/18/26 6:41 PM DAVID MUIR: We turn now to the reflecting pool on the National Mall. Tonight, not only has the new blue turned green. Tonight, reports the new paint is now peeling after $14 million was just spent to paint the pool and renovate it. Here's Jon Karl  JON KARL: Tonight, Washington's iconic reflecting pool is looking dirty and green. A brand new coat of blue paint already peeling off the bottom. All told, they spent $14 million to paint the bottom of this reflecting pool American Flag Blue. But if you take a look, not only is the green of the algae come back, but look at that American Flag Blue in the paint. It's actually starting to peel. It's coming up. No comment on that yet from The White House. The company that painted the pool had virtually no experience as a federal contractor. DONALD TRUMP: It’ll last for 50 to 100 years before you have to do anything. KARL: By last week, the pool was blue and beautiful. Two days later, it started to turn green. Four days after that, algae everywhere. Today workers were wading through the pool, cleaning out the algae and the dirt. Just last night, the Trump administration said, and this is an exact quote: “The reflecting pool water is crystal clear.” Well, the crews are working hard to try to make that happen here. But we've walked all around this reflecting pool. And let me tell you, David, it is far from crystal clear. MUIR: All right. Jon Karl at the pool tonight. Jon, thanks. CBS covered the algae bloom on the Evening News but did not dispatch, say, Robert Costa to splash around in Reflecting Pool water. Instead, anchor Tony Dokoupil did a brief: WATCH: @CBSEveningNews ran yet another story on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool TONY DOKOUPIL: More problems tonight with our great national home improvement project. It's not just algae in the reflecting pool at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. Now the $14 million paint… pic.twitter.com/3eYT2IuMFk — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 19, 2026 CBS EVENING NEWS 6/18/26 6:52:56 TONY DOKOUPIL: More problems tonight with our great national home improvement project. It's not just algae in the reflecting pool at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. Now the $14 million paint job seems to be peeling, with American Flag Blue coming off the bottom. NBC Nightly News had the decency not to shove another Reflecting Pool item down America’s throats. Instead, they profiled today’s Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. It’s clear that this story is driven by Trump Derangement, and the sweet dopamine crack hits that the Elitist Media get from pointing at a Trump initiative gone sideways and going “ha-ha.” Why else is Jon Karl traipsing around the reflecting pool? Or Ryan Nobles, for that matter? For their next performance, are they going to don waders and go into the Reflecting Pool? Compare this obsessive coverage with their nonexistent coverage of what appears to be a Democrat failure: the massive raw sewage spill into the Potomac. It took the Elitist Media evening news a month before they covered the enormous flow of excrement into the Potomac, and then they dropped the story like a hot potato.  Cleanup of the Potomac is still ongoing, and repairs have begun on yet another section of that same Interceptor pipeline. But you won’t hear about that on the Elitist Media evening news. It’s (D)ifferent like that.  

On Thursday’s Morning Joe, in the midst of coverage of the Obama Presidential Center’s opening, co-host Jonathan Lemire still had time in the show to attack the Trump administration and changes to security footprint in Washington DC. Lemire complained about security additions at Lafayette Park, the grass-filled park right outside of the White House, which he said made the building “less accessible to the people” Co-host Willie Geist detailed the story with a frame of the park as a key place for protests. He then actually detailed the project, which he said, “would give officials the ability to shut down the park if they feel it's necessary, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity,” before he shortly added: “The Secret Service has been pushing for that plan.” Geist then mentioned the protests at Lafayette Square in 2020, best known for when law enforcement cleared the protests in front of the White House amid days of violence, before he inferred the security changes might be an attempt to minimize America 250 protests: Obviously, John, Lafayette Square fraught during the Trump Administration because of that incident that we recalled. They had the National Guard come in and clear the square so Donald Trump could walk through and go to the church. Putting up a fence here, perhaps deterring protests they might be expecting around the America 250 celebration.   Thursday, Morning Joe's Jonathan Lemire complained about possible fence additions to Lafayette Park, right outside the White House, which would help bolster security of the building. He said the move "infringes" on protestors, after law enforcement "went way too far" in 2020. pic.twitter.com/Xaw9TVpXA8 — Nick (@nspin310) June 18, 2026   Lemire responded to Geist and mentioned his feelings about police actions at the park in 2020: First of all, you're right to recall that what happened in 2020 seems real violence there. People thought that the federal law enforcement and the National Guard went way too far in clearing up those protests. As a reminder for Lemire and his thoughts on police violence against protestors, an NPR headline from June 1, 2020, read “Protesters Set Fire to Vehicles, Buildings Near White House.” There was also the gunman who opened fire on Secret Service a block from the park, just last month. He then continued his complaint and said the move was “about infringing on space to protest and the ongoing fortification of the White House.” Lemire added that security measures in recent months have been “making it far less accessible to the people.”   Just around an hour later, reporter Nnamdi Egwuonwu detailed the security 'concern' at the Obama Center opening event. The concern is perfectly reasonable, but came after Lemire complained about White House's added security "making it far less accessible to the people." pic.twitter.com/26DswClyYl — Nick (@nspin310) June 18, 2026   Less than an hour after Lemire’s security bolstering complaints in DC, he introduced a report from reporter Nnamdi Egwuowu at the Obama Presidential Center that included a portion about the “top concern” of security at the center’s opening: So, with the guest list that looks like that, just with the amount of diplomats, dignitaries, officials, celebrities that are coming, you can imagine security was a top concern. MS NOW actually got to talk to James Morley. He is the Secret Service head who oversaw all the security planning for today's event. He said it started six months ago (...) The concern was perfectly reasonable, but came after Lemire complained about White House's added security "making it far less accessible to the people.”  Amid shootings and violence against politicians, including three assassination attempts against the current President, Lemire might be wise to tune down his personal animosity toward security additions just because they were coming from a President he clearly disliked. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Morning Joe June 18, 2026 7:52:56 AM Eastern (...) WILLIE GEIST: And the Trump Administration reportedly is planning to install a permanent fence now around Lafayette Square. That's, of course, the public park right across from the White House, frequented by tourists but also used for protests. The plan, reported by The Washington Post, would give officials the ability to shut down the park if they feel it's necessary, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Secret Service has been pushing for that plan.  The idea of a permanent fence previously was discussed during the first Trump Administration, after demonstrators flooded the park at the height of the George Floyd protests. At one point, authorities used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear that area of protesters so President Trump could walk across the square for a photo op.  Obviously, John, Lafayette Square fraught during the Trump Administration because of that incident that we recalled. They had the National Guard come in and clear the square so Donald Trump could walk through and go to the church. Putting up a fence here, perhaps deterring protests they might be expecting around the America 250 celebration. JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, a couple of things here. First of all, you're right to recall that what happened in 2020 seems real violence there. People thought that the federal law enforcement and the National Guard went way too far in clearing up those protests. Lafayette Park has always been a traditional site of protest in Washington. There have even been some - I've walked through that park many times, you have to go through it to get to the white house. A permanent protest structure like there was an anti-nuke thing thatTrump already cleared out, he didn't like how it looked. And so that's part of this.  This is part of Trump's effort to beautify Washington and remake it in his image. But it's also about infringing on space to protest and the ongoing fortification of the White House. There are more and more security measures have gone up in recent months, making it far less accessible to the people. It is the people's house, and this is the excuse that the administration is using to try to build this ballroom. They've now turned it into - it's a security measure that they feel like the president needs to have this to in order to be safe there in the executive mansion.  This all seems connected as part of an effort to really sort of harden what should be a space with appropriate security that is for the American people. (...) 8:37:52 AM Eastern LEMIRE: Tell us more about today's festivities and what people can expect when they get a chance to visit the brand-new Obama Center. NNAMDI EGWUONWU: You know, you use the term star-studded, and that is accurate in describing what we're going to see here in just a couple of hours. Things are expected to kick off around noon. And let me tell you, it's not every day a work assignment turns into a music festival, but that's what today feels like. We're going to see performances by Christina Aguilera, by Bono, by Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Tems, a personal favorite of mine. The list goes on.  There will also be shout-outs for the former presidents you listed that are attending, as well as the first ladies that are coming. So, with the guest list that looks like that, just with the amount of diplomats, dignitaries, officials, celebrities that are coming, you can imagine security was a top concern. MS NOW actually got to talk to James Morley. He is the Secret Service head who oversaw all the security planning for today's event. He said it started six months ago. Take a listen to some of the work he said that went into that planning. [Cuts to interview] JAMES MORLEY (SECRET SERVICE - CHICAGO): We have support from federal, state, and local partners, law enforcement. You see the anti-scale fencing here. We'll have vehicle checkpoints, magnetometers. They'll be tactical assets, some that the public will see and some that they won't. We'll have drones providing overwatch. We have a temporary flight restriction in place that will restrict access from aircraft and drones. So, it is a very comprehensive security plan. (...)

The "Big Four News Apps" -- Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! -- have a nasty habit of promoting not just "news" sites, but trashy opinion bins like the Daily Beast, Salon, and Rolling Stone. MRC Free Speech America studied 100 days of GOP primaries, and these "curators" are heavily leaning on negative midterm messages. Free Speech America Director Michael Morris, and FSA Associate Editor Luis Cornelio share their latest research. Out of at least 155 stories published about the GOP primaries and Trump-backed candidates, 124 stories (80%) were sourced from left-leaning media outlets with reliably hostile coverage, while only eight stories (5%) came from AllSides-rated right-leaning counterparts. Additionally, just 21 stories (13%) were from AllSides-rated centrist outlets. --Google published a May 20 article from The Guardian headlined, “Trump’s allies in danger of scraping false hope from Maga victory in Kentucky primary.” This piece compared Trump to a “cult leader” and claimed that he runs the GOP like a “mob boss.” Also: “Dems Stunningly Flip Seat in Major Humiliation for Trump,” by The Daily Beast, promoted March 13. And: "Accused Sexual Harasser GOP Candidate Steps Down, An Apparent Neo-Nazi Takes His Place,” by Rolling Stone, promoted on March 7. Yahoo: “Texas primary shows that MAGA loves a villain,” by Salon’s kooky Amanda Marcotte, was promoted on March 4. In another new study, MRC researchers asked seven AI chatbots—Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Grok by xAI, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Perplexity AI—whether children should participate in Pride Month celebrations. Grok alone challenged whether child participation in “Pride” is good for child welfare, noting that their broad inclusion “lacks justification from developmental science, biology, and child protection principles.” Meanwhile, the other AI chatbots implicitly promoted the celebration of Pride Month with the assurance that there are plenty of family-friendly “Pride” activities and that children can learn inclusivity and how to be an “ally” from such events.  Elon Musk’s Grok presented a strong case for why parents should feel these events are not family-friendly: “No, not in the form of ideological affirmation, medicalized framing, or exposure to adult sexual themes.” The chatbot added, “Parents may choose limited, age-appropriate involvement for their own children, but broad participation—especially school-led, parades with mixed adult content, or early gender identity lessons—lacks justification from developmental science, biology, and child protection principles.” Grok also cautioned that “Adult Pride has historical roots in sexual liberation,” adding that “blending with children invites premature sexualization.” We also discussed how Yahoo News elevated Scott Pelley's firing from CBS News as its number one placement in its top 20 stories on June 3, but it chose to rely on a piece from left-leaning outlet Deadline. Yahoo’s headline for the Deadline piece was loaded “Fired Scott Pelley Decries ‘Heartbreaking’ Submission To Trump By CBS, Paramount: ‘Incompetence & Unprofessionalism In The New Management Have Wreaked Havoc.’” This badly disguised press release included Pelley’s full post-firing statement was included about how he was pressured to inject bias (like it was never there before). Enjoy the podcast below. 

According to recent studies, mandatory voter identification, as outlined in the SAVE Act, is extremely popular, with up to 84 percent of the American public in favor. A very small minority, mostly on the far-left, oppose voter I.D., but with that far-left side taking over the mainstream Democratic Party, including congressional Democrats and their mouthpieces in the liberal media, you’ll hear more unhinged rants against the SAVE Act, like the one from Wednesday’s episode of MS NOW’s The 11th Hour, which has only gotten more radical since the hairless prophet of doom, Ali Velshi, took over the show. Velshi welcomed Brittany Cooper, an “associate professor of women’s and gender studies and African studies at Rutgers University,” and author of a book called Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. With that byline already evoking deadly levels of cringe in the hearts of unfortunate listeners, we know exactly what’s about to come out of this so-called academic’s mouth. Nominally, she was there to discuss Trump nominating Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence, but the segment immediately devolved into a TDS-fueled tirade. From calling the President a “ringmaster. . . doing a bunch of attention-seeking things” to describing his actions as “instituting maximum chaos,” there was not a shred of objective analysis to be found.      Co-panelist Aaron Parnas, who had a much more legitimate background in the subject, tried to get in on the fun and actually address Velshi’s questions, but was outdone by Cooper and her raging about the SAVE Act: I think we have to remember, too, there's not just a racial dimension to this. This administration is stridently anti-women, stridently anti-queer. And so the SAVE Act also has particular effects for married women.  Cooper also tried to claim Republicans’ goal “was for everybody to become a tradwife.” Despite her credentials as a sexuality studies professor, Cooper automatically assumed that each married woman had married a man and taken her husband’s last name, which Velshi didn’t dispute. Further, she made this claim about what the SAVE Act would result in: What they want is a world where men make all of decisions, where particularly moneyed men, white men, straight men make the decisions. And so they are systematically moving in ways that make that a reality. The far left can’t oppose the SAVE Act’s real agenda to prevent non-citizens from voting, because the vast majority of Americans favor it, so instead they make up baseless claims about how the legislation will ban all married women from voting or imply they are too stupid to figure out how to get a government I.D. and use it to vote. From there, they can smear the Trump administration as sexist, despite Trump picking Susie Wiles as the first female White House chief of staff, and the considerable effort the administration is pouring into preventing more brutal murders of young women like Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Sheridan Gorman.  The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MS NOW'S The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi 6/17/26 11:25:28 (…) PROFESSOR BRITTANY COOPER: Look, you know, I'm deeply concerned about all of the voter suppression.  I mean, I am from Louisiana. This is the place that this - ALI VELSHI: Yes. COOPER: - case has sort of, you know, been staged. But it's also historically where the Supreme Court used Louisiana to institute segregationist policies.  I think we have to remember, too, there's not just a racial dimension to this. This administration is stridently anti-women, stridently anti-queer. And so the SAVE Act also has particular effects for married women.  VELSHI: Yes. COOPER: But I thought that the goal on this side was for everybody to become a tradwife-- ALI VELSHI: Yes, yes-- COOPER: --so I don't understand why now, you know, we're seeing young women say online-- VELSHI: Which, by the way, if you get married and you take your husband's name or you get divorced and you don't, and you try and vote, you could get in trouble under the SAVE Act. COOPER: That's right, that's right.  And so if your documents don't - don't-- VELSHI AND COOPER: --match-- COOPER: --your name-- VELSHI: Yeah. COOPER: --then you can't vote.  And this is also evidence, or a reason for us to think about the fact that the things that we do, for instance, to undocumented people and the things that we do around weaponizing access to your documents can affect citizens too-- VELSHI: Yes. COOPER: --because they have tested this out on the most vulnerable.  But really, what they want is a world where men make all of decisions, where particularly moneyed men, white men, straight men make the decisions. And so, they are systematically moving in ways that make that a reality. (...)

The alleged ringleader of the foiled terror attack targeting Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 White House event is an illegal alien allowed to remain in the U.S. by the Obama Administration under its Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “The alleged RINGLEADER of the failed terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 is an ILLEGAL ALIEN,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported in a social media post on Thursday, noting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking custody of him, via a detainer request: “Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, from Mexico, planned, organized, and directed the planned attack. He was arrested by the @FBI on June 14, and @ICEgov has lodged a detainer against him. “Alvarez FAILED to leave the country when his B2 tourist visa expired in 2001. He was granted DACA by the Obama administration.” “This illegal alien should NEVER have been allowed in our country — and we will ensure he faces justice and is swiftly removed from our nation,” the DHS post adds. The 31 year-old illegal alien from Mexico was arrested in Omaha, Nebraska on Sunday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for his alleged involvement in the plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack against government officials and other attendees at Sunday’s event at the White House.  Alvarez is one of five suspected co-conspirators were arrested over the weekend – and is their alleged ringleader. The FBI has determined that Alvarez detailed the plot in an encrypted group chat, including the planned use of “counter sniper(s) and drones,” with the explicit intention of being “as deadly as we can get.” Alvarez entered the United States on a B2 visitor visa and failed to depart before it expired in December 2001. In 2014, the Obama Administration granted him Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), enabling him to avoid deportation. “From his home here in Nebraska, Alvarez allegedly directed and recruited others across the country to conduct a horrific attack against government officials in a mass casualty event. Our team worked around the clock to locate and apprehend Alvarez, take him into custody, and collect crucial evidence,” Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel of the FBI Omaha field office said in Tuesday in a statement released by the U.S. Justice Department. The contentious DACA anti-deportation program for illegal aliens was announced by the Obama Administration’s U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2012. It was designed to allow illegal aliens who entered the U.S. as children to remain in the country for renewable two-year periods. It provides recipients with protection from removal and potential eligibility for employment authorization. DACA applications are adjudicated by DHS's U.S. Citizenship and During the period of deferred action, a DACA recipient is considered to be in a period of stay authorized by DHS. A DACA recipient may be granted permission to travel abroad for educational, employment, or humanitarian purposes. According to USCIS, it has discretion to terminate a DACA grant at any time. It will typically provide the DACA recipient with a notice and an opportunity to respond before termination but may not do so in the case of an individual who is convicted of certain types of criminal offenses. DACA recipients are not granted, or put on a pathway to, a lawful immigration status. If otherwise eligible, however, a DACA recipient may be able to obtain lawful immigration status under an existing immigration pathway. According to DHS, more than 100,000 DACA recipients have become lawful permanent residents (LPRs). The DACA initiative was announced by then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano in a June 15, 2012, DHS memorandum entitled, "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children."DHS has defined "prosecutorial discretion" as "the legal authority to choose whether or not to take action against an individual for committing an offense."