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…
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.
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.
The best authors in the history of our species couldn’t write failure like what we’re witnessing in realtime.
Can I ask why they are painting the floor blue?
Embezzlement.
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
America
Fuck you, that’s why.
~DJT
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.
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.
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%
Stupid is as stupid does.
A literal stain on our nation.
Someone should go paint: " TRUMP-EPSTEIN ™ " in bright white on blue.
No bid contract to a friend of Trump’s in the hotel pool industry. The idea stemmed from Trump seeing the park service scrape algae off the top because of ongoing filtration issues. That’s it. He just wants to hide the algae. It’s so dumb, and as far as I understand it, pool paint is nearly impossible to remove.
Hey did you know that darker colors reflect less sunlight? They turn a substantial portion of light into heat; I wonder if that will affect the algae. I also wonder how he ever thought something on the bottom of the pool was supposed to hide the surface. That’s not how occlusion works.
Does this imply Trump actually paid one of his pool contractors for work rendered enough times for them to be on friendly terms? Honestly surprising.
a friend of Trump’s
In a VERY loose sense of the word.
I’m surprised he didn’t paint it a gaudy fake gold tbh
so hear me out. does this make a self-heating pool? like i do not know the pool industry. if i did this to my own pool, would i have to warm the water or would it do that to itself?
i mean i don’t have a pool but it would make playing chocolate milk so much easier.
Isn’t like basically every pool liner blue?
how he ever thought
I think you got your answer right there
You’re trying to rationalize the mind of a literal anus. Quit while you’re ahead
What do you mean by “literal” anus?
Every time a side of him opens, shit comes out of it.
Hey, please don’t insult the anus, it is a very important bodypart
“he lacks the warmth and the depth”
he’s like a haemorrhoid in an anus.
He’s more like a skid mark on the underpants of American history
More like a soiled dipe.
At least we don’t have Harris in office, we dodged a bullet there. /s
She would have started a war with Iran!
And she might have supported Israel in an ongoing genocide!
And started a trade war!
Sure glad none of this stuff is happening.
I’m even more glad that the Democrats are moving quickly to the left and not openly attacking their own progressive party members and mayors. If they didn’t do that, it would undermine the only strategic justification we have for not voting. That would mean our inaction did nothing at all except help fascism spread across the entire political spectrum.
Sure glad that’s not the case; I’m going to sleep well tonight.
He’s president for the theater. People should be realizing anything having to do with him is bullshit and entertaining him and the dramas that revolves around him makes you part of the problem.
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?
Fun fact: Two different Captain Americas jogged around the reflecting pool.
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.
Are they using felt-tipped pens to paint it? Cause that’s what it looks like in every single picture.
Imagine how high everyone’s getting from all those Sharpies
Looks like they use some sort of sponge technique from art attack
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.
