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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      $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?

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    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.

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    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!!!

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      🤣 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

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      Other than stealing tax dollars, grifting his base and destroying institutions, he’s absolutely shit at everything else in life.

      Pure anti-Christ shit

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    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.

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

    So… already setting up the scapegoat

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    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.

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      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…