According to Boing Boing, Karoline Leavitt, a Trump administration official, defended an algae farm at the Lincoln Memorial on Fox News as a campaign promise kept. Leavitt dismissed protesters dressed in algae costumes as 'deranged leftists,' insisting that beautifying the nation's capital is what Americans elected the president to do. The project has drawn sharp criticism from environmental and aesthetics advocates.

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