The Reflecting Pool survived for generations. Trump “fixed” it in a few weeks — and now it’s green, peeling, and blamed on everyone else.
Somehow that tells you everything you need to know about his presidency. (Link in reply)
This is an incredible photo.
The Prime Minister of Qatar, a country Trump called a “funder of terrorism” in 2017, later gave him a $400 million luxury jet and allowed the Trump Organization to build luxury real estate projects there, is now sitting with the Vice President of the United States in Switzerland helping shape Trump administration policy in the Middle East.
The 103-year-old Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has survived wars, protests, and more than a century of history. Yet after a $14 million taxpayer-funded makeover, it turned bright green with algae in a matter of days.
Trump will always be a failure.
This photo was published of the Prime Minister of Qatar, Vice President JD Vance and Jared Kushner. What’s the problem? Giving a foreign leader visual access to a USG laptop, while using someone else’s CAC to log in. Pure incompetence at every turn.
He didn't "inspect it," nobody "vandalized it," nobody was "gathered around him."
He is mentally ill,... believing wild conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact whatsoever.
Turns out there's a reason the Reflecting Pool is green. The no-bid contract for the pool's water-purification system went straight to a company owned by longtime Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro. No competitive bidding. Just handed to him.
And Cafaro isn't just a donor. He has two prior felony convictions, including a guilty plea for conspiring to bribe a sitting member of Congress.
The total renovation came in at more than $14 million — over seven times Trump's original $1.8 million estimate. Taxpayers footed the bill.
Days after it was finished, the algae came back anyway.
This is what happens when public infrastructure contracts skip the bidding process and go straight to people with a personal relationship to the person in charge. Qualified companies lost out. Taxpayers paid more. And the pool still doesn't work.
Trump promised the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would be "American flag blue" in time for the country's 250th birthday. He was wrong.
People online are calling it exactly what it looks like: money laundering
"No me he lavado las manos en 10 años, de verdad, me inoculo a mi mismo, los gérmenes no son algo real, no puedo verlos, por lo tanto no son reales".
Pete Hegseth, ministro de guerra de EEUU, confesó que no se ha lavado las manos en 10 años porque no cree en los gérmenes.
Ahora como responsable del ejército de EEUU, quitó las vacunas de la gripe obligatorias... y dos meses después, 160 soldados en una base de la Fuerza Aérea en Texas han contraído la gripe.
Es curioso como dice que no cree en los gérmenes porque no los ve... pero luego cree en dioses que tampoco ve.
Take a moment to really look at this photo. 👇
That is the White House lawn. The People's House. Sacred ground that has stood for 226 years. Not destroyed by war. Not by disaster. But for one man's pleasure.
We are 13 days away from our 250th birthday as a nation, and our president spent $14 million ripping out the Reflection Pool to build himself a swamp. Another $600 million turning the East Wing into rubble. Rose Garden destroyed. And $60 million for his own birthday party that tore up the lawn.
226 years it stood strong. This man destroyed it in a year and a half.
One photo that screams exactly what he's done to this great nation.
There are cameras that monitor the Reflecting Pool 24/7 - it's Washington DC ffs. There is no footage of anyone damaging or trying to cause damage or sprinkling algae spores or doing anything of the sort. These people live in a world of lies and only morons believe them.
THIS pisses me off more than almost every other horrible thing that Trump has done,thus far. I knew that all of the toxic chemicals these incompetent fuckers are pouring into the pool would harm the wildlife.
Where are all of the environmental and wildlife groups!? RIP ducky😔🌈