Describe how the vandalism went down, @EricLDaugh ! What exactly did the vandals do? Is the Olympic athlete David Hearn a vandal because he picked up piece of pool liner that had peeled off?
By sealing the bottom with dark paint that heats up the water algae thrive.
Pouring a small amount of 12% hydrogen peroxide in the Reflecting Pool was like nutriants for the algae, a proper amount for a pool of this size would have been 8.000 gallon. That could have taken care of the algae.
On the spots where the peroxide was poured down it worked instead like a paint remover. The pool contractor Trump contracted makes swimming pools, so his guys didn’t know how stuff works.
BREAKING: TRUMP has arrested an innocent man, so now he has a Scapegoat, to provide cover for his lies about sabotage !!!! Trump deploys National Guard after retired Olympic athlete arrested over a pool that experts say is just doing what pools do
A 67 year old retired Olympic athlete is facing years in prison after Park Police accused him of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the same pool that turned bright green with algae weeks after a $14 million Trump administration renovation.
David Hearn, a three time Olympian who competed in canoe slalom before retiring in 2002, told the Washington Post he stopped to look at the pool during a 52 mile bike ride and reached down to touch a piece of liner that was already peeling away from the bottom. Moments later he was in handcuffs. He is charged with destruction of government property and is due in court July 9.
"I didn't vandalize anything," Hearn said. "I didn't destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs."
Trump has spent days insisting the pool's problems are the result of sabotage, posting on Truth Social that Park Police have arrested multiple people for what he called "very serious crimes" against "our Nations magnificent Reflecting Poll," warning of "Years in jail."
But the experts Trump's own administration would have to consult tell a much simpler story. Water systems specialist John Wilson Jr. told Newsweek that turning green is just basic chemistry. "The minute you put fresh water into a stagnant situation, it's going to turn green," he said. Engineer Tyler Dailey added that reflecting pools, unlike swimming pools, have no filtration system at all, meaning "there's no sanitization of any kind."
In other words, the pool is doing exactly what pools without filtration do. No chemicals. No sabotage. Just algae.
While the National Park Service runs hoses and vacuum equipment around the clock to manage the bloom, National Guard troops in full camouflage have been stationed along the water's edge, patrolling one of the most visited memorials in the country over what engineers describe as a routine startup issue.
A retired Olympian now has a court date. Troops are patrolling a reflecting pool. And the official explanation keeps colliding with the people who actually understand how water works.
Trump’s ICE Under FIRE After $700 MILLION Disaster EXPOSED!! 7 warehouses bought to be used as prisons, now ICE wanta to get rid of them!
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@MAGAVoice WHY DO YOU SMEAR THE GOOD NAME OF JOHN CAFARO, THE CONTRACTOR WHO TOOK A WEEK OFF FROM SHOOTING THE NEXT BATMAN MOVIE JUST TO FINISH THE REFLECTING POOL. SHAME ON YOU!
@GuntherEagleman Do you, David Freeman, think Giorgia Meloni would be prime minister of Italy if she begs anybody for anything?
Nobody believs your AI slop, David, just eat your banana.
Paint was seen peeling from the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, weeks after a $14 million renovation that included a new color President Trump called “American Flag Blue.”
@LarryTaunton@GiorgiaMeloni@LarryTaunton , Trump lied poorly. Donald didn’t understand that signora Meloni never begs anybody. To imply that she did only shows Trump doesn’t understand strong Italian women.
Giorgia Meloni doesn’t need to be adopted by anybody, but Donald Trump needs new medication.
Benny dare; pouring in 20% hydrogen peroxide will peal paint of anything, it is not safe to handle without gloves, it is not safe to breath.
There are no left wing activists in the pool, only Greenwater Services’ staff. (Green water!)
The owner of Greenwater is a guy named Cafaro. He looks like a leftover from one of Trump’s casinos.
@WhiteHouse Because President Trump couldn’t shut up, the Iranians understood they could caal off the peace negotiations. Iran understands that within a month the big loser will be USA, and perhaps the whole world.
The Reflecting Pool is a symbol of Trump’s idiocy and grift.
Giving a job like this to a swimming pool contractor is proof of failing judgement and willingness to fleece the payers - all Americans - by any means available.
The swimming pool contractor knew that one does not paint the bottom of a shallow pool in a dark colour, but he didn’t say anything, because the money was there to be grabbed
Everything Trump touches dies; is it a pool or a peace deal.