UNCOOL POOL: Workers are caught peeling giant sheets of coating off the Reflecting Pool BY HAND -- that’s some “hundred-year renovation”! 😆
Donald Trump promised his bright blue makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool could last an entire century. It didn't make it through the summer.
New video from photographer Joe Flood shows workers repairing the drained pool casually pulling ginormous flaps of the “American Flag Blue” sealant from the basin with their bare hands. A power washer sends still more pieces flying.
Of course, this is totally embarrassing because Trump has spent weeks insisting it was determined malefactors – or perhaps wascally wabbits – not his shitty contractor, who were responsible for the damage.
“There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!” Trump bleated on Truth Social.
As we all know, his own Justice Department couldn’t make that dog hunt.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro dropped charges against former Olympian David Hearn after prosecutors determined that the damage was likely caused by a botched installation. Lesser charges against three others were also dropped.
Trump responded by publicly attacking his own prosecutor, saying he was “very disappointed” Pirro” and complaining that she “choked before “folding like an umbrella.”
After all that, Mr. Never Back Down hasn’t backed down, inviting prolonged ridicule on him and his gang of idiots by doing stuff like installing signs around the drained pool declaring that crews were “repairing areas damaged by vandals” and insinuating that somehow Calvin Coolidge might have had a hand in it.
Flood’s video confirms what we already knew: the work just sucked and the expensive gunk they laid down too quickly is now peeling off like old wallpaper.
The whole project has been a fiasco from the start. Trump ordered the historic pool painted “American Flag Blue,” only for the makeover to contribute to one of its largest algae blooms in years.
The pool has since been drained twice and sits empty and shedding its skin like a snake.
And reader, we can’t leave you without sharing who did Team Trump hire to fix the botched work: Atlantic Industrial Coatings -- the same contractor that installed it! 🙄
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum insists the company nonetheless “did a fantastic job.”
Sure. And the Titanic had a fantastic maiden voyage right up till the iceberg got in its way.
