Engineer. Contractor. Developer. Entrepreneur/Founder. Trying to do my best to make the world a better place for my family, friends, staff and their families.
Iran will never follow through on any MOU.
Iran will never agree to a deal.
Iran will never give up its nuclear ambitions.
Iran will never voluntarily give up control of the Strait.
Iran will never stop supporting terrorists proxies.
Iran will never be a normal country under this regime.
Resurfacing a 2,000-foot reflecting pool that has been sinking and leaking for a century is difficult. If this were an honest project that ran into honest problems, I’d say so.
But this was a rushed, no-bid job pushed through for a deadline. Now the coating is peeling, the water is green, and instead of accountability we’re hearing claims of knife attacks, chemical sabotage, and widespread arrests—with little evidence to back them up.
As a contractor and engineer, what I see looks far more like poor planning, inadequate surface preparation, trapped moisture, and unrealistic schedules than a grand conspiracy. Algae in a shallow, sunlit reflecting pool isn’t surprising. Peeling coatings on an old concrete structure rushed into service aren’t surprising either.
The real issue isn’t the algae—it’s the process. No-bid contracts. Compressed timelines. Finger-pointing when things go wrong.
On any project I’ve ever managed, if you take the credit when things go right, you take the responsibility when they don’t. Show the evidence—or accept that the simplest explanation may be the correct one.
The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear.
She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news.
He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you.
That is EXACTLY what he’s done.
The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity.
That is not Donald Trump.
He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent.
For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.
Trump: I'm doing a great job on the Reflecting Lake. I got so into it. I've upgraded it like you wouldn't believe... It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be waterproof. It's going to be reflecting again.
Because he cut their budget to support a meaningle$$ war in Iran that the United States is spending over $29 billion on trying to recreate the same constraints the JCPOA (which he cancelled) already provided — except now there’s far more dangerous uranium unaccounted for, no inspectors on the ground, and a diplomatic environment that is infinitely harder to work with than it was in 2018.
@tricmiranda 💯. Long term it may make sense. But may not too. It’s about servicing clients and getting staff home quickly or at night….I don’t know how to put a price on that….
If the war concludes with Iran at the negotiating table, its nuclear timeline set back but not eliminated, the Strait contested but functional, and the region restructured around Iranian leverage — a skeptic is fully entitled to ask: what, precisely, was gained that deterrence and diplomacy could not have achieved at far lower cost? That question doesn’t have a clean answer yet, and history may judge it harshly.
Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.
This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.
“You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us.”
“No one has paid the price like you have paid the price… It almost cost you your life.”
Paula White-Cain serves as a senior adviser in the White House Faith Office. Essentially his primary spiritual person.
This is so true. And if you believe that, unfollow me, please