Donald Trump Mocked for Awkwardly Holding Up Poster Comparing Reflecting Pool to World's Tallest Skyscrapers: 'This Is Just Embarrassing'

President Donald Trump faced widespread online ridicule after proudly displaying a poster that compared the length of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., to the heights of the world's tallest skyscrapers.

The poster featured a scale graphic showing the 2,030-foot reflecting pool next to the One World Trade Center, the Empire State Building and the Sears Tower.

Trump held up the chart in an Oval Office press gaggle on Wednesday, June 3, to boast about the sheer size of the landmark, emphasizing to reporters that if skyscrapers were laid on their sides, "It'll take two or three of them to fill it in.”

Critics and social media users immediately mocked the bizarre presentation and the comparison between a horizontal pool and vertical buildings.

The graphic quickly spawned memes and satirical commentary, with many comparing the chart to a classic construction developer's pitch rather than a typical political update.

“This is just embarrassing,” said Trisha Hope, a self-described MAGA supporter and January 6 activist.

A Tucker Carlson parody account agreed, mocking the POTUS, saying, "It's the straightest pool. It's straighter than a strait. Amazing pool, they all love it. Men love it, women love it, it's the best place go on a date and order her mousse."

“We’ve got Iranian missiles flying all around over the Persian Gulf, and Trump is talking about how big the pool is. Ridiculous,” said conservative lawyer Paul Bonneson.

This visual gag followed earlier backlash after Trump referred to the iconic historic landmark as a "reflecting lake" and "reflecting pond" and boasted that he would make the project "waterproof" with an industrial-grade sealer and a bright blue coating.

His handling of the pool also sparked controversy and a lawsuit from landscape architects who argued the industrial blue paint fundamentally alters its historic visual character.

But it was also the almost 80-year-old’s physical handling of the monstrous poster that sparked commentary.

“Donald Trump: He was once a grifting conman. He is now a cognitively compromised grifting conman,” quipped one.

“A low-intellect president like Donald Trump would compare the length of the reflecting pool to the heights of skyscrapers. Trump left out taller buildings in Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, and Shanghai because his followers are morons. They're too stupid to know that he's lying,” said another.

“I bet when Trump was a kid, he would try to put the square peg in the round hole and then cry when it wouldn't go in. He has the brain of a 5-year-old,” snarked someone else.

Trump recently announced that he achieved a perfect 30 out of 30 score on his fourth cognitive screening, which he publicly characterized as a demonstration of "extreme intelligence," while doctors clarified that the test is to monitor signs of dementia.