Fun fact: Two different Captain Americas jogged around the reflecting pool.
The real news is that was a Trump’s choice contractor that would do the job for $1.8 million but the cost got to around $13 million…
Contractor work is insanely costly. Just buy a bunch of paint lol
I mean they’re spending a million per day to keep the national guard deployed in DC. Just have them paint it.
Oh come on, it’s just $18 million. I mean, seriously, could you find someone to do it cheaper than $25 million?? If you ask me, $40 million is an absolute steal.
I love how Donald trump is a bad business guy and always fails (upward it seems…sigh). I have to laugh, though, when he even fails at painting concrete. This is a kindergarten level skill we’re talking about here. Is there nothing he can do?
Well at least the hotel had a pool.
The best authors in the history of our species couldn’t write failure like what we’re witnessing in realtime.
Thats awful. Can’t beleive you guys are just letting that man trash your country.
Oh no, the country founded on Indian burial grounds, slavery, and not wanting to pay taxes isnt a good place! Who could have guessed?!?!?
Don’t forget the misogyny!
But he’s our Lord and savior /s
From what I understand, his Arc de Trump (seriously, that’s what it’s called), is going to be located between the pool and the Washington Monument, and will be TALLER than the the Washington Monument. He’s making sure it gets a nice reflection.
Lovely.
Small penis energy from dumpy
No, it will be on the VA side of the river, and shorter than Washington, but still tall enough to create a hazard to the flight path into national airport. FAA, don’t fail us. 🙏
I wonder what will become of all these garish monuments he leaves behind once history correctly sees him as neo-Hitler?
We should pass a law that it is illegal to name anything after him, or build any monument to him. How many statues of Hitler are there in Germany?
Interestingly, there never were any statues of Hitler in Germany, even when he was in power. Lots of portraits and busts, though.
oh dude, literally the previous post i was on. synchronicity.
I’m hoping someone takes it upon themselves to have them torn down after his reign. State sanctioned or otherwise.
Honestly I don’t mind these super public vanity projects because it will make it impossible for the Grand Ole Pedophiles to wash the stink of Trump off them after he is gone. Like imagine interviews where they tell TMZ we aren’t the party of Trump with his stupid fucking arch in the background.
Arsch de Trump, as we say in Germany.
Can I ask why they are painting the floor blue?
America
Fuck you, that’s why.
~DJT
Trump wanted to give 10+ mil taxpayer money to a crony. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a little taste himself, or gets some work comped on his properties. There is also probably an aspect of reminding people he existed years down the road when he’s dead, because he is a narcissist.
It certainly isn’t because it is a good idea.
If the Reds ever get fucked off Mount Olympus, this orange kid-diddler will definitely be remembered. The same way people like Hitler and Pol Pot are remembered
Embezzlement.
From a technical sense, its dark blue, which will basically absorb all light except blue. Water should absorb blue pretty good. So you’ll have a nice water evaporator. It’s good for the sinuses.
Isn’t DC already super humid all the time anyway?
Super saturation! Let’s aim higher!
It’s saturation like no one’s ever seen
600%
Things that are a color don’t absorb that color, otherwise, that color wouldn’t be leaving the thing. A green leaf absorbs most of the visible spectrum except green. In reality it can be more complicated.
Lincoln memorial pool is being painted blue for repairs. Some people think it is illegal and/or looks ugly CNN
Didn’t people paint their pools blue all the time though?
its not a swimming pool, paining it blue ruins the artistic intent of the structure. wouldnt expect any less from lord fuckwad
Also it will now absorb much more heat and heat the water more, likely making filtration much more complex due to changing water conditions.
My pool always gets gross the day or two after a Heatwave starts, and until I ut more chlorine tabs and algaecide, I don’t even like to be near it.
The POOL is fairly simple to get back in line.
This massive reflecting pool? Not so much. Bare minimum the whole system will need redone.
ah yes the common granite swimming pool
It’s not “for repairs.” It is, itself, damage.
Yeah spot on. ‘Granite’ is a wide category of rock. The Vietnam memorial is also apparently granite, I just learned that today. It looks nothing like the reflecting pool, it’s much darker, almost black. The specific types of granite, maybe even the specific quarries, was chosen by each architect for it’s texture and color. Congress paid extra to keep the original granite floor while replacing everything else about it in 2009.
It will never be restored, I don’t think it’s possible. Our generation will have been the last to be able to see the original intended art piece.
The reflecting pool on the National Mall is shallow pool / fountain that’s there to look neat. It’s not intended for swimming. It’s an iconic landmark that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Memorial. It’s been featured in all kinds of media, films, and TV for decades. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech was there.
Trump decided that the reflecting pool needed to be painted blue like some kinds of swimming pools. He caused the government to hire “a guy he knows” without putting the contract out for normal competitive bidding.
Also, I think they’re painting directly on to granite, not concrete.
There’s also this shot of the President driving his motorcade of several multi-ton vehicles directly on top of the granite pool.
Because I’m an insufferable pedant sometimes: MLK’s speech was on the Lincoln Memorial steps (they have brass replicas of his foot prints on the very spot). The crowd was gathered in front of those steps and the crowd stretched back alongside the edges of the pool.
So…we’ll be able to use it as a splash pad?
If there is one pool that deserves to be pissed in, this is it.
National trough?
Are they using felt-tipped pens to paint it? Cause that’s what it looks like in every single picture.
Looks like they use some sort of sponge technique from art attack
Imagine how high everyone’s getting from all those Sharpies
So much beauty coming out of America these days…
I’ve seen.photo of another angle of this road and the town it’s in appeared to be very picturesque and green.
Stupid is as stupid does.
A literal stain on our nation.
