Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Saturday there were unreported cases of people making “threatening messages” to President Trump both inside and around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as he called for consequences for the vandals.

“We’ve had seven arrests, a number of other citations, 18 police reports … There’s multiple cases both on the grass and in the pool that we had not reported before we even filled it up where people were making threatening messages to President Trump,” he told Fox News.

“President Trump came to DC to try and drain the swamp and some of these folks are trying to bring it back. It is, as he says, it’s crazy.”

Vandals put huge “8647” markings around the reflecting pool, and an Interior spokeswoman said this week cited “the cutting of fuel lines around the Great American State Fair.” Trump is the nation’s 47th president.

Burgum said the 2,028-foot pool – which President Trump had painted with “American Flag” blue sealant through a $14.7 million government contract – was part of the original 1922 memorial, and that vandalism was tantamount to an attack on the Lincoln Memorial itself.

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