Bacon’s idea was a mirror. A long, narrow, shallow plane of water aligned exactly between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument so that, depending on where you stood, the marble Lincoln dissolved into the sky and the obelisk multiplied into two. Roughly 2,030 feet long, 167 feet wide, 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches in the middle. The whole point of those measurements was that they should vanish.

This is a key part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool history that often gets glossed over. The pool is not a swimming pool, despite what one architect told NPR last month about “pool guys” refinishing it like Mar-a-Lago. The pool is an optical instrument.

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[–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, well I wanted it to be ten feet deep with tiger sharks.

We don’t always get what we want.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I'm surprised he didn't paint it gold.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    The 'new' color is a darker blue than an actual pool, and darker than the gray concrete of the pool floor. This is a destruction of it's original intended purpose.

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    [–] 52 points 5 months ago*

    Par for the course. Trump loves tacky shit and has no taste, aside from not giving two shits about what anyone else wants or wanted.

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I, for one, am in favor of undoing everything he does and deleting Trump from history, unperson style.

    It's probably not the best way for future generations to learn from our mistakes, but it would upset him the most, and that's what I think matters.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Deleting Trump from history is not enough. In 20 years he will be brought back as a forgotten hero.

    What needs to be done is to change everything to "Trump is a pedophile."

    "Trump is a pedophile" needs to be on all park passes, passports, and large banners hung on federal buildings.

    The Gulf of Mexico needs to be, "Gulf of Rapist Trump."

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Trump told reporters his contractor had talked him out of his first color choice. He had wanted turquoise, “like in the Bahamas.”

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    The idea behind all reflecting pools are mirrors. trumps just a low class idiot. dur dur. water should be blue.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    Trump and his guys would just call you a fucking woke nerd for having such ideas about aesthetics.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    he is such a rotten piece of shit. he ruins everything. i wish he would just fucking go away.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Wow… What a history. All these times I’ve been to DC and stood at the reflecting pool and I never knew it carried such a tale.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Good article, nice read.

    Another blot on our country from Donny the Dunce, but I learned some really interesting history! Thanks!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    "The mud underneath has not moved" bullshit. It's been sinking.

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Excuse the slop but I wanted to see an illustration of what this might look like, and I can see how someone like Trump would find the second picture an improvement.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Assuming that Mar-a-Lago is what he likes, maybe needs some gold-colored sunloungers to contrast with the blue water:

    https://www.maralagoclub.com/spa-sports-recreation

    The Beach Club extends the Mar-a-Lago Club property to include the two most beautiful acres of direct access private beach anywhere on the East Coast. Each member and guest that arrives at the extraordinary Beach Club will have an oceanfront experience unlike anything ever had before. The complex includes a 100 foot by 50 foot pool, whirlpool, a private beach and a beautiful full-service beachfront Bistro serving salads, sandwiches, grilled specialties and beverages.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Leave it up to a low IQ felon rapist to think slapping a coat of paint on something will fix it.

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