Can’t wait how will they blame Biden for that
Obama had work done on it. This is why diddlin Donnie is doing this.
Just like the Joker raiding the Gotham Museum.
As a none American(thank god), what am I looking at?
This is the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. You may have seen it in movies like Forrest Gump.
Trump decided to paint it blue like a swimming pool and the job looks to be going bad.
Trump personally chose the color, contractors without asking anyone really or going through the proper channels like getting approval from congress and input from the public.
In the years to come, the blue pool will mark the time during which Trump was the president of the USA. Its visitors will look down upon their reflection and see blue, as if to say they were the ones who elected him.I’m willing to bet the water was sold to an AI datacenter and won’t be refilled, thus why its being painted blue, so it can fake being full of water
Why not MAGA red? 🤔
Maybe a little too on the nose:
3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.
4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
Revelation 16:3
6.9m transferred to the company that does the same work at Mar-a-largo. Not sus at all…
The pool guy gets $3 mill, and kicks back the rest. Standard money laundering scheme.
That’s a memorial (I don’t remember for what or whom) and they decided to paint it blue as if it was a swimming pool
“Trump said he made the pool a priority after an unnamed friend of his visiting from Germany called it “filthy, disgusting … not representative of the country.”
Sounds pretty representative to me.
To be truly representitive you need some struggling sick peasants chained to the floor trying to keep their heads above water.
“Friend from Germany” has big “I got a girlfriend in Canada” energy.
I dunno, I could see Höcke (who we are legally allowed to call an actual Nazi) wanting to get really close with Trump, Thiel and co.
Sounds more like a handler to me
Is it Zima blue?
Jokes aside, this says so much about the way Trump sees the world. It’s a pool, so it must look like a swimming pool because that’s all he knows.
It would also explain why he thinks of the Las Vegas Strip when he hears about the Gaza Strip.
Upvote for the Wild Love Death and Robots reference.
Not trying to defend Trump but I don’t think that’s necessarily what’s going on.
Someone linked an article. The thing has cost heaps of money to maintain over the last hundred years. It leaks so bad it costs $1m a year just to keep it topped up with water.
The article says it’s the marshy soil, which makes sense. The whole thing has sunk quite a bit - article says 12 inches which seems absurd. Different areas would decompose at different rates so the joints would open up all the time.
Sounds like they decided to “fix” it with a spray on pool liner stuff, which of course is blue because swimming pools are blue.
12 inches isn’t that bad as far as subsidence issues can get. The ground below you is filled with very tiny holes and gaps that water seeps down into and fills and flows through, kind of like a sponge. While water fills those pores it’s difficult to squish down the soil.
If a heavy weight is on them like a building, though, that can put on enough pressure to push the water out of those pores and flow down out and around. A mix of soil and voids/air give much less resistance to weight than a mix of soil and water filling the gaps so then the voids get compacted down and the ground sinks. Different soils in different conditions may not evenly subside and that can give you a situation like the Leaning Tower of Pisa where one side was subsiding faster than the other side. In modern construction people try to get the water out and compact the ground ahead of time so that it acts more consistently and doesn’t make big changes when a heavy object is placed on it.
Here’s a picture from an agricultural area in California illustrating ~30 ft of subsidence that occurred in that area over a half century of pumping out the groundwater to water the crops.
(This also makes flooding worse… ground that used to be filled with holes that could channel the water down and away into large aquifers is now compacted such that those holes are gone. So instead water piles up on the surface in huge sheets that flow and wipe out whatever is between them and a lower elevation.)
My guess would be that fixing it would be a massive undertaking, that would cost money and require a competent and qualified contractor, and that’s just not something Trump knows how to do.
In these kinds of situations, all he knows how to do is grift and enrich himself, and that means really shoddy work (if there’s any work at all).
1 million a year topping it off isn’t even that much, relatively. We probably spend more than that in a month on the military.
You probably spend that much on the military every few minutes, but that’s no the point.
If something is leaking $1m of water a year then it’s worth paying $6m to stop it leaking.
Oh, it definitely seems like it is in need of repairs. But the article also says the contractor talked Trump out of a “Bahamas turquoise” color for the liner, so I feel like this is at least a little bit of both 😅
Every Zima I’ve seen was clear.
For a short time they had zima gold, and later zima xxx flavors that were different colors.
Thanks, I thought I was going crazy.
They did have blue labels though.
Why are they so bad at this? This isn’t rocket science…
A child could do this.
Its so much harder than you think. This would take a team of about 20 guys a month to do right. He got some little company for maralago to do it. He probably flew them up and got them hotel rooms and tours and everything. They just started putting blue paint down. That is concrete that has been under water for decades.
The process: Power wash the entire pool with high pressure for about a week Have professional concrete guys patch any holes Vacuum up any particulate Seal with two coats of concrete primer tinted blue rated to be under water Clean the whole surface again to ensure there arent loose particles anywhere by thoroughly vacuuming again Then two coats of the blue topcoat
It would take at least a month and the guys they got to do it just know how to do smaller swimming pools that dont need as much prep and they are “ccommercial” work, which usually means its done as cheaply as possible.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
When 80% of the funds go to politicians bank accounts this is what happens.
You see this all the time in third world countries.
When all you know is grifting, you can’t just suddenly pivot to actually bidding out and completing large and expensive projects.
It goes entirely against his nature. This is literally all he knows. I actually do not think he would even know where to start to actually build something lasting and worthwhile.
A child is doing this. A child surrounded by people who all kick his commands down the ladder, each person down the rung knowing even less how to do their job right than the Orange Twitler at the top. So by the time it gets to the last person who sends it it’s just: use some leftover blue paint they found in some warehouse from the 1980s and pay some trump crony contractor a crapload of money to hire another contractor who will be lucky to be paid to do the shitty painting job.
JFC, the most ghetto person in the entire country is the fucking president.
I’m laughing because I grew up in the ghetto and I saw plenty houses painted in both this color and a few in this manner. My mom would always say “free paint!”
I have no idea what I’m looking at.
Reflecting pool between Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in Washington D.C. in the gal’dang U S of A.
Last month it was drained to be painted with a blue swimming pool liner.
Because that’s what you do when you’re losing another war in Asia.
Ah! Now I see it!
I was stuck trying to figure out why someone would paint a car park blue.
The reflection pool in DC.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5802343/reflecting-pool-resurfacing-blue-trump
TY for the article link. Explains it all!
I think it’s the wading pool outside the Lincoln memorial.
do people actually wade in it tho
At least once.
“JENNAY!!”
FORREST?
Apparently it used to be filled with tap water.
That changed in a 2009 reno to use water from the Tidal Basin(man made resevoir) constantly circulating to avoid stagnation issues.However, that itself caused issues. Rampant algae growth immediately became an issue, so they had to improve the ozone disinfectant system in the same year.
It was drained in 2017 to solve a parasitic snail outbreak which was killing ducks in the pool.
I think it’s more a depth thing than a use case name.
Jenny from Forrest Gump did.
Not generally, but I’ve seen people in it sometimes.
Sometimes kids get in there before their parents tell them to get out
I never realized it was that big.
It’s ginormous but only a few inches deep
The Queen she likes 'em red
If she saw white instead
She’d raise a fuss
And each of us
Would quickly lose his head
Goodness!
Since this is the part we dread
We’re painting the roses red
You think his “pool guy” is shitting bricks right now with the entire nation calling his work shit? Or you think hes just as DGAF as Drumpf?
He got 7 million to do this job. He’ll probably do a half ass job and spend half (if that) to do the actual work.
In 2 months people will forget about this and that dude can basically retire.
Ill fix it for 5 million.
Approved. I would rather the money go to you rather than ICE or bombs for Israel… which seems like the only things congress is funding lately.
You have to start first though, and never get paid.
He probably blue himself
I’m thinking, since it is only cleaned once a year, paint color will be irrelevant after a week or soof algae growth.
Isn’t part of the purpose of the paint to be algae resistant?
Brazil couldn’t even keep an indoor Olympic pool from turning green. It’s apparently very hard.
The paint might be but… it’s an outdoor pool with a huge surface area where ducks live. Previously the bottom was grey duck-pond-sludge color so you couldn’t see that it was full of grey duck pond sludge.
That is to say, the paint might be algae resistant but the shit that will be all over it will not be algae resistant.
Maybe the parasitic snail problem killing the ducks wasn’t so accidental after all.
Yeah. Even if there are no ducks, and lots of snails or whatever to eat sludge, it will still get full of that gritty dusty smeg that cities produce.
Republicans?
They are doing damage, not repairing.
At least they’re consistent.
I expect them to wrecking ball the Lincoln Memorial next.
They are getting it ready for jet ski season.
