#Trump claimed vandals “took some form of knife or blade, & put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade.” He also claimed they poured corrosive & destructive chemicals into the #ReflectingPool. WaPo could not verify any of his allegations.
Pool experts’ explanations for the damage diverged from Trump’s. Steve Goodale, a swimming-pool expert who viewed footage of the peeled sheet of paint, said he believes the pool’s surface may have been improperly prepared for treatment.

#kakistocracy

The Park Police patrolling the Lincoln Memorial area on Friday afternoon observed an individual peeling paint from the #ReflectingPool, a spox said via email. The person was arrested on charges of destruction of government property.
WaPo later identified the person as 3X Olympian David Hearn. In an interview with WaPo, Hearn said he reached in the water after he noticed a piece of paint partially detached from the pool bottom. He said he did not damage govt property or “vandalize anything.”

Since pieces of peeling paint started floating to the water’s surface earlier this week, the #Interior Dept has not responded to questions about the paint & why the #ReflectingPool surface is separating.

… #Trump blamed the damage on “disgraceful Vandalism,” an accusation he also made earlier this week. “Many additional people” were arrested, he said.
The Park Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the number of arrests.

#kakistocracy #TaxpayersMoney #GovernmentWaste

#Trump said Saturday night that he was likely to drain the Lincoln Memorial’s #ReflectingPool again, as workers contend with paint peeling off its surface & algae blooming in the wake of his $14 million renovation. Trump made his announcement, after what he said was a meeting with contractors…at Camp David….It comes 16 days after the govt began refilling the pool after the renovation that Trump said would result in clean water & “could last for 100 years.”
#TaxpayersMoney
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/20/trump-likely-drain-reflecting-pool-again-following-peeling-paint-algae/

Seriously? Such a dick.

#Trump tries to blame #ReflectingPool woes on “vandalism”, without offering substantiation as usual.

The paint is peeling from Washington’s Reflecting Pool after the renovation ordered by Trump, & he is now alleging that someone damaged it intentionally.

#kakistocracy #TaxpayersMoney #GovernmentWaste #law #landmark #NationalMonument #conservation #planning #architecture
https://apnews.com/article/trump-reflecting-pool-paint-algae-6b7b499ada2701a34bc6bc380013ad04

@jaykuo

“To me, that’s Trump’s entire governing philosophy. Don’t fix the problem. Paint over it. Debt exploding? Tell everyone you're bringing in trillions of dollars. Prices rising? Tell everyone inflation is defeated. Farmers struggling? Hold a photo-op and declare they’re thriving....

Just paint over it. Just tell people it’s fixed. But reality eventually wins. The algae always comes back.”
- Ben Meiselas

#Trump #ReflectingPool #Politics #Quote #Meme #Quotes #Memes #US #USA #DC

Days after the completion this month of a $14 MILLION renovation, the water in the Lincoln Memorial’s #ReflectingPool had more algae in it than at any recorded point in the month of June for at least 5 years… #Trump vowed to clean up what he called the “filthy” & “disgusting” water…He promised to resurface the basin to eliminate persistent leaking & to paint it “American flag blue.” Once the pool started to be refilled, on June 4, he praised its “clean, beautiful water.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/18/algae-detected-reflecting-pool-higher-levels-than-any-june-past-5-years/

It would be funny if it weren’t such a colossal waste of #TaxpayersMoney

Blue paint is already peeling off the Lincoln Memorial's #ReflectingPool after Trump's $14 million renovation

An “American Flag Blue” paint sheet was seen floating on Thursday as workers tried to clean the worst algae buildup in at least 5 years from the pool.

#Trump #kakistocracy #GovernmentWaste #law #landmark #NationalMonument #conservation #planning #architecture
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/06/19/blue-paint-is-peeling-off-reflecting-pool/

@newrepublic

The reflecting pool debacle works well as a metaphor for Trump's inability to ever actually fix a problem:

“To me, that’s Trump’s entire governing philosophy. Don’t fix the problem. Paint over it....

Just paint over it. Just tell people it’s fixed. But reality eventually wins. The algae always comes back.”
- Ben Meiselas

#DonaldTrump #Trump #GOP #Politics #ReflectingPool #Fail #ETTD

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#ReflectingPool #TrumpAdministration #WashingtonDC

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#ReflectingPool #TrumpAdministration #WashingtonDC

… #Trump has not publicly commented on the #ReflectingPool algae problem. On Monday, he posted that he would host a Trump rally on July 4 “with the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial and surrounding the beautifully new Reflecting Pool.”

#kakistocracy #GovernmentWaste #TaxpayersMoney

A higher value of that metric, known as the normalized difference chlorophyll index (NDCI), points to more algae in the water, Menendez said.
Menendez’s analysis detected more algae in the #ReflectingPool in an image taken Saturday — in the week after it reopened — than in any June images going back to 2021. The algae level was among the highest measured in ANY month in the past two years, according to the analysis.

#Trump #kakistocracy #GovernmentWaste #TaxpayersMoney

But the algae blooms that have long plagued the pool came roaring back, & worse than before.

…Alana Menendez, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Sciences, analyzed light-reflectance data from a European satellite called Sentinel-2. The satellite captures clear images of the #ReflectingPool several times a month, & the data it produces can be used to estimate the presence of chlorophyll-a, a pigment found in algae.

#Trump #TaxpayersMoney

Days after the completion this month of a $14 MILLION renovation, the water in the Lincoln Memorial’s #ReflectingPool had more algae in it than at any recorded point in the month of June for at least 5 years… #Trump vowed to clean up what he called the “filthy” & “disgusting” water…He promised to resurface the basin to eliminate persistent leaking & to paint it “American flag blue.” Once the pool started to be refilled, on June 4, he praised its “clean, beautiful water.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/18/algae-detected-reflecting-pool-higher-levels-than-any-june-past-5-years/