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.

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.

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.

This story gets more hilarious by the day lol

Money well vandalized! Lord Feltersnatch and his buddies made buck!

How could Obama do this?

US not being able to tame a knee-deep pool is peak empire collapse indicator.

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!!!

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 probably for the best. Just scrape it up and let it be.

It acted like a natural pond. Water slowly filtered out through the granite and was replaced, filtering it, keeping it clean, but also letting it be still.

Which. Only still water reflects.

If you add a pool filter and circulation system (and that would be a massive, useless expense,) it won’t reflect like it was designed to do.

This is what happens when you vote for geriatric imbeciles more concerned with grifting a nation and fucking kids than working for Americans as president.

Probably due to all the caustic chemicals they dumped in it to kill the algae.

what a metaphor

Like his military parade

Like his concerts

Like his marriages

Like his administration

Half-arsed shit

You can't make this shit up

Drain the water and replace it with Blue Gatorade. I've seen a documentary in which this kills the plants..

Step 1. Create a swamp Step 2. Drain the swamp

Dang, guess they'll need another $14 mil paint job done lol

Look at those protestors flying the Algae-BT flag. I bet they're behind all of this!

The rational solution here is to drain off the nasty green water, replace it with peroxide, then mount a toilet puck every five feet around the rim.

The water will be nice and blue like the water features at his favorite mini golf course, and it'll smell just like his office.

Anyone who has ever painted a boat, fountain, or pool, will tell you it is an uncle fucker to get durable results, even if you use those special marine paints.

Dunno why they'd spend this much to apply a coating guaranteed to degrade and look like shit almost immediately.

Guys.

Guys.

... It can't last FOREVER.

They're already saying it needs protection from democrats who want to damage it

So.. already setting up the scapegoat

Honest questions. If he wanted it blue, why not stain the concrete? Was it cracked? Did it actually need repair?

Well, it's nice to see that the American taxpayers got their money's worth for the workmanship and materials of the project.

So dumb

The pool paint job is still going better than more than half the things the Trump administration has undertaken. That should say a lot.

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.

I bet if you got a film company who use mostly practical effects in to use the reflecting pool in their movie they would hire the right people to come in and deal with the algae and paint job and make it shine again. They would use their own money and trump would look even worse. Heck let me at it an di think i could work out what is needed with enough research and send him a bill.

I mean, i would definitely sub contract, but it would be to experts. Not idiots.

I hope they kept the receipt, but I think pouring bleach into the pool void the warranty

Holy crap!

So what? 🤷‍♂️ his birthday is over.

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.

If only there were a department to investigate waste, fraud and abuse.....

Sounds like a bad contractor.