Trump Signs School Fitness Proclamation, Hosts Athletes at White House, Tours Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation

U.S. schools on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. During the signing ceremony he told children that Iran was two weeks away from killing them before the United States and Israel intervened.

"You might be too young for this, I don’t know. They probably know. But you can’t let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon, or the world would be in trouble," Trump said to the children.

Following the fitness proclamation on May 5, 2026, the White House hosted a field day on the South Lawn with professional athletes and children. LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau performed 30 pull-ups and 50 push-ups alongside 90-year-old retired golfer Gary Player. Ice hockey player TJ Oshie attended the May 5, 2026 White House field day.

Washington Nationals baseball team mascots waved at President Trump and gave high-fives to reporters while he taught children how to do his signature YMCA dance as the song played. On Wednesday, May 6, 2026, President Trump hosted UFC fighters in the Oval Office and displayed renderings of the UFC Freedom 250 octagonal arena planned for the South Lawn. " "Not bad, right?

Our country is invited to this. It’s free," Trump said while showing the UFC renderings. The UFC Freedom 250 event is scheduled for June 14, 2026 on the South Lawn, marking President Trump’s 80th birthday and occurring weeks before the nation’s 250th birthday.

On Thursday, May 7, 2026, President Trump visited the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to inspect its renovation as his motorcade drove across the covered-up pool. The renovation costs $2 million and applies an American Flag Blue coating; the bottom used to be gray before the current renovation. President Trump stated the Reflecting Pool granite has been leaking like a sieve.

He ordered the Reflecting Pool drained so the Park Service could clean out goose-poop stains and worked with his pool guy to sandblast it before applying the new coating. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, whom Trump tasked with heading the Reflecting Pool renovation, was present during the May 7, 2026 visit. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin attended as well.

President Trump first teased the Reflecting Pool color change at an event on drug affordability. "They call it a pool, lake, and pond. Every day is different, but the word reflecting is a good term," he said of the Reflecting Pool.

President Trump had his gold guy adorn the Oval Office with gold, cursive signage labeling locations including the Presidential Walk of Fame and the Rose Garden. He paved over the Rose Garden last year to put down a concrete patio. In late March 2026, on Air Force One, President Trump held up a poster displaying Corinthian columns planned for a new ballroom.

"This is very important because this is gonna be with us for a long time," he told reporters on Air Force One. Senate Republicans inserted a billion-dollar earmark for East Wing security enhancements into an immigration-enforcement funding bill. President Trump had piles of construction rubble from the White House dumped onto a historic public golf course in East Potomac Park.

This past weekend relative to the article, May 2–3, 2026, President Trump attempted to close the East Potomac Park golf course to transform it into a luxury golf club. Secretary of State Marco Rubio filled in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is on maternity leave, during a White House briefing this week in May 2026. S.

Warships would escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz using force if necessary under Operation Project Freedom. President Trump stated immediately after Rubio’s briefing that Project Freedom was on hold because negotiations to end the war were going well.

Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, launched an X account last week in early May 2026 with the statement: "We are relentlessly focusing on advancing President Trump’s agenda and delivering on promises to the American people.

I welcome different viewpoints. , and remained on the bridge for three days last week in early May 2026 before descending via an internal ladder and being handcuffed. Secret Service agents shot and wounded an armed man outside the Washington Monument last week in early May 2026; a teenage bystander was hit in the crossfire.