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.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…
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
Why are they so bad at this? This isn’t rocket science…
A child could do this.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Any contractors or painters or swimming pool people care to comment?
I suck at home repair – can’t tell if this is normal, crappy, or masterful
Well the main takeaway is that like so many things, Trump heard “pool” and he thinks “swimming pool” because he’s a fucking idiot. So he thinks it’s supposed to be like a national swimming pool, and wants it painted so people are more likely to use it or who the fuck knows.
Real answer: Corruption, money laundering, and bad taste combined
It’s his contractors. They’ll do a bunch of free private work by charging 10x+ for this.
Quid pro quo / corruption per usual.
