Continuing to redecorate Washington DC

[wtg]

President Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls "American flag blue."

He did more than just see it — the Republican president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement and answer questions from reporters who had been taken there to await his arrival before the sun set.

The new blue coating will hide the pool's gray stone, a color Trump said was "never good." The project cost nearly $2 million, he said.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-drives-across-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-to-inspect-blue-coating-hes-adding

[CHAS]

Redecorating? You are being too nice.

[Daniel]

Here we go again.

[Axtremus]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/16/reflecting-pool-green-algae-spreads-00963411

The Reflecting Pool is now green and filled with pond scum. Why am I not surprised?

[ShiroKuro]

@Axtremus said:

filled with pond scum

something something ... like attracts like.... something something

[jon-nyc]

[wtg]

The ​paint on Washington's newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday was ‌peeling away from the bottom and into the algae-tinted water, less than two weeks after President Donald Trump announced the job's completion.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/paint-is-already-peeling-trumps-renovated-washington-reflecting-pool-2026-06-18/

“The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening—most infamously Obama's reopening—since 1922,” the Interior Department wrote on X. The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool.”

“Just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf,” added the department led by former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.