Trump held up the pool. No returns yet.

WASHINGTON — On the eve of Election Day, President Trump spoke at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool instead of closing on the trail, the Associated Press reported. “We have a lot of great things planned for Washington, and I could get into the nation, but for that, you don’t have enough time,” he said. The AP’s account, reprinted by the Chicago Tribune, called it his last public appearance before Election Day. On Monday evening the AP reported that no public appearances were planned for Tuesday. This edition has no dispatch of one, and it has no returns.

The Wall Street Journal, Alex Leary, Marianne LeVine and Philip Wegmann, timed the speech at 53 minutes. He wore a white USA cap. The audience was a small group of National Park Service workers and members of the press. Sidewalks by the pool were closed. “The pipes were very old and in bad shape,” he said, holding up photographs of the work. “The pipes now are totally renovated. They’re brand new pipes.” He said, “We’re giving serious thought to changing the name to the Trump Reflecting Pool,” and the Journal reported that he clarified he was joking.

We have a lot of great things planned for Washington, and I could get into the nation, but for that, you don’t have enough time.

The photograph is Monday, Nov. 2. Mark Schiefelbein made it for the AP. Trump is speaking, and he is holding a photograph of the pool and the Lincoln Memorial. The people in that photograph are not at the lectern. It is not Tuesday. No polling place is in this frame.