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.
the Reflecting Pool now looks arguably worse than it did before.
Arguably? What a weasel word. It looks worse than it did before. There’s no sane person who could argue that a massive algae bloom and paint peeling off the bottom don’t make it look worse.
The Reflecting Pool now looks much much worse than it did before.
There is beauty to be found in an algal bloom, just as there is beauty to be found in hyenas eating an antelope alive. /hj
Natures healing :')
It looks natural
The universe finding it’s ballance.
/hj = handjob tag?
Half joking.
dafuq does /hj mean?
Half joking.
I think I like the other person’s suggestion that it’s a tag for “hand job”
Not that it matters at all because we’re just randos on lemmy but isn’t this just the same thing as a /s tag? /hj
I think it’s half joking rather than completely sarcastic because I genuinely do think that you could look at a pond full of algal bloom and find beauty in it, but at the same time I would definitely agree that it’s not what you want in a “reflecting pool”.
We need to get some daphnia and moina in there with all that green water, so we can have a never-ending supply of fish food. Just net out some of the critters any time you need to harvest some.
US not being able to tame a knee-deep pool is peak empire collapse indicator.
🤣 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
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).
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.
This story gets more hilarious by the day lol
Perfect microcosm of this administration.
This is my favorite Trump scandal.
It sucks we’re blowing through cash because we have an idiot for president, but I feel okay laughing at it because it doesn’t involve bombing a school in Iran, destroying immigrant families, tanking the economy, child sexual abuse, taking rights away from minorities, or stealing elections…to name a few.
Thank god he also wrecked a pond.
A no bid contract I would add.
If you put down new paint, you need to clean and dry the surface. Any real contractor would know that.
One is cdertain the contractor paid kickbacks to the administration for that contract, and that everyone is paying kickbacks for everything at this point. We have organized crime ruling the country.
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.
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.
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.
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
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~).
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.
How could Obama do this?
With his tan suit and Dijon mustard!
Drain the water and replace it with Blue Gatorade. I’ve seen a documentary in which this kills the plants…
No it doesn’t, the plants need electrolytes.
Money well vandalized! Lord Feltersnatch and his buddies made buck!
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.
Like his military parade
Like his concerts
Like his marriages
Like his administration
Half-arsed shit
Other than stealing tax dollars, grifting his base and destroying institutions, he’s absolutely shit at everything else in life.
Pure anti-Christ shit
Dang, guess they’ll need another $14 mil paint job done lol
$25 mil… Because he was initially trying to save tax payer money… And it’s seriously an emergency now before the 4th of July… And everyone laughs at his stupidity
Whats the worst thing of the last month… The reflecting pool or the Iran peace deal?
Probably the reflecting pool, because it exists.
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.
