Exactly this. If there is one scandal trump would want us all to concentrate on and forgot all other ones is exactly this one.

No one cares about the pool. The pool is just a public display and emblematic of the stupidity and the insane amount of corruption in The White House. Just look at the list of offenses:

1. Waste tens of millions in taxpayer dollars on a completely unnecessary renovation for the sake of vanity, after cutting billions in funding across a vast array of vital federal services for "waste, fraud, and abuse".
2. Skirt the congressional approval process by declaring some sort of "emergency".
3. Give the contract to one of his personal friends, financial donors, and a convicted felon who has zero qualifications.
4. Renovation costs from taxpayers skyrocket past initial projections.
5. Felon with zero qualifications predictably fucks it up castrophically.
6. President drives a fucking motorcade over the freshly-painted surface for...what fucking reason?
7. Trump sicks federal resources on PUTTING PEOPLE IN FUCKING PRISON in an incredibly ignorant attempt to save face.
8. His own administration declares that there was no wrongdoing and he immediately publicly lambasts his own fucking people for not being able to make a judge hallucinate into a conviction in his alternate reality, while possibly becoming disbarred or themselves charged with a crime.

#7 being the most aggressive and offensive. Like I can't stress how alarming that is. He's willing to imprison people over a botched renovation rather than admit he made a mistake. That's some North Korea shit.

Yeah but wouldn't it be funny if after all the evil things he's done, what they finally get him for is something stupid

I don't care about the pool either. It's the throwing the DOJ at an innocent bystander that gets me. However after all these years, I think we can conclude that the Epstein files will never tank Trump. If the Repubs can't take down Clinton with them, they truely do not care. Enough information has now been released to understand that Epstein was most likely a CIA/Mossad operation from the beginning so will be protected as a "national security" issue which means a US governments covert operation to blackmail influential people around the world to do their bidding. There isn't a level low enough that the US won't stoop to it to do their dirty work around the world. I remember when people were outraged by the Iran Contra deal and then it turned out to business as usual for the good old US of A.

It's a stupid fuck up like we've come to expect from him, but I'm much more concerned about the damage he's doing to American democratic institutions than to American monuments.