Trump disputes the Daily Mail's report on the reflecting pool talk, saying he joked about the name change in a Telegram post Trump wrote that a press conference at the renovated reflecting pool, which is closed to the public with limited attendance to reporters, was not the speech to just 60 people that a Daily Mail headline described. He said his midterm speech was given the day before in Iowa and Kansas in front of 50,000 people, and that he made it clear he was joking about the pool being named after him.

Trump disputes the Daily Mail's report on the reflecting pool talk, saying he joked about the name change in a Telegram post Trump wrote that a press conference at the renovated reflecting pool, which is closed to the public with limited attendance to reporters, was not the speech to just 60 people that a Daily Mail headline described. He said his midterm speech was given the day before in Iowa and Kansas in front of 50,000 people, and that he made it clear he was joking about the pool being named after him.