Five people were arrested last week for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool — leaving a 300-foot gash in the structure and allegedly dumping illegal chemicals into the water. President Trump warned the perpetrators face "fully enforced" consequences, including up to ten years in prison.

Whoopi Goldberg watched all of this unfold and decided the real villain is President Trump.

On Monday's episode of ABC's "The View," Goldberg launched into a segment that somehow turned property destruction at a national monument into a presidential offense. "He is claiming that vandals are to blame," Goldberg said, per LifeZette. "He says they illegally placed chemicals in the water and left a 300-foot gash in the pool." The tone made it clear she wasn't buying any of it.

"It seems to me that had he not messed with the pool, it would still be a reflecting pool instead of a liquid jungle, which is what it looks like," Goldberg continued. What "messing with the pool" means in practical terms is anyone's guess, given that five actual suspects were actually arrested for the actual damage. But granular detail has never been The View's area of expertise.

Then came the legal theory. "I want somebody to sue because if a contractor did this at your house, this is what you would do," Goldberg argued. "I think the country needs to say we're suing you, suing you for doing this without our permission, and we're suing the people who did it because clearly they didn't know what they were doing."

So to summarize the position: the president should be sued for vandalism committed against federal property. By other people. Who were arrested. We are supposed to take this seriously as legal analysis on a major television network.

Goldberg also took issue with the arrests themselves. "But to accuse five people of doing this, but seemingly there's no proof," she said — apparently unfamiliar with the concept that arrests generally require at least some evidence, and that "seemingly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

Now here's where the week gets interesting. While Goldberg was workshopping her pool lawsuit on daytime television, reporting from the Patriot Post confirmed that Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, a 31-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, orchestrated a planned attack on the White House during UFC Freedom 250 on June 14. Alvarez, who overstayed a B-2 visa in 2001 and was later granted DACA status in 2014, used TikTok to recruit conspirators and the encrypted messaging app Signal to coordinate the plot. His stated goal, according to chat logs, was to make the attack "as deadly as we can get."

Alvarez operated under the alias "Shepherd" in the group chats. One of his recruits was a 19-year-old whose own mother turned him in to authorities. The targets included the White House event and attendees associated with AIPAC.

DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis didn't mince words: "This illegal alien from Mexico should never have been allowed in our country. He was the ringleader of a failed terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House."

So we have a man who entered the country illegally twenty-five years ago, was shielded by Obama's Dreamer's program, recruited attackers on social media, and planned mass casualties at the seat of American government. And we have Whoopi Goldberg using her national platform to demand the president be sued over a reflecting pool.

Goldberg's complaint isn't really about the pool, of course. The pool is just the delivery mechanism. The actual position — the one that animates every segment like this — is that anything Trump touches becomes his fault, even when the people who broke it got caught and charged. The five suspects and their arrest records don't fit the narrative, so they become background noise. The president who called for enforcement becomes the defendant.

The reflecting pool will get fixed. The gash gets patched, the chemicals cleaned out, the water restored. That's what happens when the damage is to concrete and tile.

The damage from twenty-five years of people like Alvarez moving through the system — entering on a tourist visa, collecting DACA protection, recruiting on TikTok, plotting on Signal — doesn't patch as quickly. And it doesn't generate the kind of comfortable outrage you can wrap up in seven minutes between commercial breaks.

Goldberg spent her airtime on a pool. Alvarez spent his planning casualties. One of those stories made The View. The other barely made the evening news.