'Cry more': Jim Acosta mocks Fox News host with montage of Trump's 'nutty' projects

Former CNN reporter Jim Acosta had a reality check for Fox News' Jesse Watters, after the latter objected to the former's criticism of President Donald Trump's latest vanity project in Washington, D.C.

"After Jesse Watters of Fox complained about my story on Trump’s ridiculous reflecting pool project, I decided to do a fuller report on many of the ways Trump is ruining DC. CRY MORE," he wrote on X, attaching a video montage of some of Trump's other projects.

"Hey guys, I thought it would be a good idea to walk around Washington, D.C., and look at all of the insane ways that Donald Trump is ruining your nation's capital," said Acosta. "And guess who's paying for it? That's right — you're paying for it! Just in time for America's 250th birthday. Let's take a look."

Acosta started by looking at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, where Trump is planning to give the historic stone facade it a coat of white paint.

He then went to the traffic circle where Trump plans to build his victory arch, possibly funded by a legal settlement from TikTok. "[It would be larger than the Lincoln Memorial ... it would be twice as high as the Lincoln Memorial. It would be, yes, shorter than the Washington Monument, but almost as tall as the U.S. Capitol. And Trump wants to do this anyway, even though there are veterans' groups who are pissed about this because, take a look at this, the arch would actually dwarf the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery."

Acosta then took a look at the Reflecting Pool project, where Trump is painting the entire structure blue. "Trump seems to think that all these federal workers are going to be able to make this look like a swimming pool by using blue paint on the bottom ... and Jesse Watters got so angry about this that he did a video, perhaps you saw it." He posted the video of Watters, proclaiming "TDS Tuesday" and saying Acosta is "crying like a baby" for criticizing the project.

"Jesse, don't you realize that in like a few months, all the pollen and the leaves and the birds pooping in it and the ducks and so on, it's just going to go back to looking the same way it was before he spent millions of dollars on all of this?" he said.

Then he went to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which a group of Trump appointees slapped Trump's name on, calling it "outrageous and appalling ... people don't want to come to this place anymore," and then the Institute of Peace, which Trump also put his name on "despite starting a war in the Middle East that is making everybody's gas prices go up."

Finally, he went to the ballroom, which Trump already razed the East Wing to build — and which Republicans are trying to approve a $1 billion security package for despite Trump initially promising it would be privately funded. "You're welcome!" Acosta concluded.