Donald Trump positioned himself as a swimming pool expert as he touted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations he ordered this year, having put in “more than 100” over his career.
But after spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, the Reflecting Pool now looks arguably worse than it did before.
Aside from the bright green hue of the water — the product of what is reportedly one of the largest algae blooms in recent years — the “industrial-grade swimming pool topping” that Trump chose is already peeling off in sheets.
Ok, ok, ok, people are giving the obese orange child rapist shit for this BUT let’s think of it a bit differently…
Aren’t we all now, in a way, ‘reflecting’ about how shitty the job was? And the obvious corruption of handing out all that cash to mate who is a pool guy? And about how it is ‘reflective’ of the “Draining of the Swamp” the mushy brained syphilis filled realty TV ‘star’ would get his horde of idiots to chant?If we look at it this way then that pool is doing a lottttt of reflecting!!!
Taxpayers are getting hosed by any measure. They can’t water down this fuckup.
US not being able to tame a knee-deep pool is peak empire collapse indicator.
Yeah wrll, maybe it’s just Obama’s fault and we can all move on
They literally tore out the filters that Obama had installed that would have helped to prevent this.
The country that developed atomic energy and manned spaceflight.
The country that had the first nuclear reactor connected to the grid was the USSR with Obninsk. The scientist first discovering nuclear fission were the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch (all german and austrian).
The first manned spaceflight was Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin (USSR).
🤣 This is actually really funny… The orange shitbag bragged about all his amazing pools, that’s when I knew there is zero chance he knows jack shit about pools
Probably due to all the caustic chemicals they dumped in it to kill the algae.
Not unbelievable that these morons didn’t select a chemically resistant coating, but it’s more likely this is due to bad surface prep than the hydrogen peroxide - if it was the result of the peroxide we’d be seeing far more damage than the few chunks spotted thus far. Though, time will tell on that front…
The fact that it comes off in sheets is a really good indicator that it never really stuck to yhe surface. Can’t wait until it all comes off and he takes credit because it looks better now.
Keep some of the paint that peels off. It’ll be a good reminder of the stupidity of Trump and the American people for electing him. It’s part of your history.
Sell pieces of those defective paint sheets just like trump sold little pieces of his suit. This would be a big sale deal for most just thinking individuals. Having a piece of history like that would be incredible! (~Shhh…don’t tell trump though~).
I’m surprised he didn’t make it gold leaf or fake gold leaf.
Then he’ll have less money to pocket for himself, the goal is to spend as little actually doing the work but pay over as much so he can get a cut
And assuming you’re a tax payer, you fucking paid for it so it’s yours.
The next President should frame a piece and make it Trump’s official White House portrait.
This is the such an unbelievably dumb story. They’ve kept this reflecting pool clean for decades, but now some moron keeps skimping somewhere and nobody can figure out how to keep it clean anymore. And we are blowing through more money than previously necessary, all because some giant asshole keeps grifting the American people.
You can’t make this shit up
I hope they kept the receipt, but I think pouring bleach into the pool void the warranty
This is probably for the best. Just scrape it up and let it be.
It acted like a natural pond. Water slowly filtered out through the granite and was replaced, filtering it, keeping it clean, but also letting it be still.
Which. Only still water reflects.
If you add a pool filter and circulation system (and that would be a massive, useless expense,) it won’t reflect like it was designed to do.
This is what happens when you vote for geriatric imbeciles more concerned with grifting a nation and fucking kids than working for Americans as president.
I heard a theory that Trump literally just doesn’t know what a reflecting pool is. He thinks all pools are swimming pools, so he’s turning it into a swimming pool. I have no proof for this but like… it fits.
I mean… I’m pretty sure Trump was always a dumb fucker, but these day’s he’s probably so heavily dosed with shit he’s got a longer drug test report than Musk and Kash combined.
Trump literally just doesn’t know what a reflecting pool is.
He KNOWS it’s taller than a skyscraper if you stand it on end.
Well, he did bleat out that stupid AI image of him, some of his staff, and some woman, swimming in it as if it was a pool.
An allegory for this entire administration.
A costly grift that paid someone a lot of money who is not an expert to do a shitty job, try to fix it the wrong way multiple times, while the whole thing falls apart and trump talks about how great a job was done.
Apply that to everything he does except manipulate stocks.
Step 1. Create a swamp Step 2. Drain the swamp
Step 3. Create a war Step 4. Lose the war
Step 5. Complain that everyone is still yelling to release the fucking Epstein files.
Honest questions. If he wanted it blue, why not stain the concrete? Was it cracked? Did it actually need repair?
That might have happened if he sought competing bids from experts, but he just funneled the job to his pool guy, who was out of his depth.
It’s a pretty shallow pool too
It was dark before to create the mirror effect. Don’t think a stain would show up.
I thought the bottom was granite, and fairly dark so probably not able to be stained.
Had to go and check because I thought that too and no, according to wikipedia it’s concrete!
Crazy, that’s a lot of concrete, I’m sure it is less expensive than granite and I guess I feel it is less stupid to paint concrete than granite blocks.
Ah. So applying a layer of dark colored epoxy might have ruined the granite forever?
Look at those protestors flying the Algae-BT flag. I bet they’re behind all of this!
The pool paint job is still going better than more than half the things the Trump administration has undertaken. That should say a lot.
Money well vandalized! Lord Feltersnatch and his buddies made buck!
Well, it’s nice to see that the American taxpayers got their money’s worth for the workmanship and materials of the project.
