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WASHINGTON — <\/span>President Donald Trump on Sunday said vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial \u2014 in the same spot where Trump had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump made the accusation in a social media post without saying why he believes it’s the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. He posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf.<\/p>\n \u201cLook what VANDALS did to the grass connecting the vandalized World War II Monument and the vandalized Reflecting Pool, which will be opened again, and better than ever, shortly,\u201d Trump said on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n \u201cAnybody who thinks the Reflecting Pool wasn\u2019t vandalized should go back to Law School!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Trump has repeatedly blamed vandals for damage to his renovation projects in the nation’s capital, often without evidence and sometimes despite opposing accounts from his officials. Trump lashed out at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro<\/a> this month after her office concluded that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of poor construction and not the work of vandals, as Trump claimed.<\/p>\n