The real news is that was a Trump’s choice contractor that would do the job for $1.8 million but the cost got to around $13 million…
Can I ask why they are painting the floor blue?
Fuck you, that’s why.
~DJT
America
Trump wanted to give 10+ mil taxpayer money to a crony. Wouldn’t be surprised if he gets a little taste himself, or gets some work comped on his properties. There is also probably an aspect of reminding people he existed years down the road when he’s dead, because he is a narcissist.
It certainly isn’t because it is a good idea.
Someone should go paint: " TRUMP-EPSTEIN ™ " in bright white on blue.
So much beauty coming out of America these days…
Well at least the hotel had a pool.
From a technical sense, its dark blue, which will basically absorb all light except blue. Water should absorb blue pretty good. So you’ll have a nice water evaporator. It’s good for the sinuses.
Isn’t DC already super humid all the time anyway?
Super saturation! Let’s aim higher!
It’s saturation like no one’s ever seen
Thats awful. Can’t beleive you guys are just letting that man trash your country.
Oh no, the country founded on Indian burial grounds, slavery, and not wanting to pay taxes isnt a good place! Who could have guessed?!?!?
But he’s our Lord and savior /s
Fun fact: Two different Captain Americas jogged around the reflecting pool.
From what I understand, his Arc de Trump (seriously, that’s what it’s called), is going to be located between the pool and the Washington Monument, and will be TALLER than the the Washington Monument. He’s making sure it gets a nice reflection.
Lovely.
Small penis energy from dumpy
No, it will be on the VA side of the river, and shorter than Washington, but still tall enough to create a hazard to the flight path into national airport. FAA, don’t fail us. 🙏
I wonder what will become of all these garish monuments he leaves behind once history correctly sees him as neo-Hitler?
I’m hoping someone takes it upon themselves to have them torn down after his reign. State sanctioned or otherwise.
Honestly I don’t mind these super public vanity projects because it will make it impossible for the Grand Ole Pedophiles to wash the stink of Trump off them after he is gone. Like imagine interviews where they tell TMZ we aren’t the party of Trump with his stupid fucking arch in the background.
We should pass a law that it is illegal to name anything after him, or build any monument to him. How many statues of Hitler are there in Germany?
Interestingly, there never were any statues of Hitler in Germany, even when he was in power. Lots of portraits and busts, though.
oh dude, literally the previous post i was on. synchronicity.
Arsch de Trump, as we say in Germany.
No bid contract to a friend of Trump’s in the hotel pool industry. The idea stemmed from Trump seeing the park service scrape algae off the top because of ongoing filtration issues. That’s it. He just wants to hide the algae. It’s so dumb, and as far as I understand it, pool paint is nearly impossible to remove.
Hey did you know that darker colors reflect less sunlight? They turn a substantial portion of light into heat; I wonder if that will affect the algae. I also wonder how he ever thought something on the bottom of the pool was supposed to hide the surface. That’s not how occlusion works.
I’m surprised he didn’t paint it a gaudy fake gold tbh
how he ever thought
I think you got your answer right there
so hear me out. does this make a self-heating pool? like i do not know the pool industry. if i did this to my own pool, would i have to warm the water or would it do that to itself?
i mean i don’t have a pool but it would make playing chocolate milk so much easier.
Isn’t like basically every pool liner blue?
Does this imply Trump actually paid one of his pool contractors for work rendered enough times for them to be on friendly terms? Honestly surprising.
You’re trying to rationalize the mind of a literal anus. Quit while you’re ahead
Hey, please don’t insult the anus, it is a very important bodypart
General every
he’s like a haemorrhoid in an anus.
He’s more like a skid mark on the underpants of American history
More like a soiled dipe.
“he lacks the warmth and the depth”
At least we don’t have Harris in office, we dodged a bullet there. /s
She would have started a war with Iran!
And she might have supported Israel in an ongoing genocide!
And started a trade war!
Sure glad none of this stuff is happening.
I’m even more glad that the Democrats are moving quickly to the left and not openly attacking their own progressive party members and mayors. If they didn’t do that, it would undermine the only strategic justification we have for not voting. That would mean our inaction did nothing at all except help fascism spread across the entire political spectrum.
Sure glad that’s not the case; I’m going to sleep well tonight.
Mask
Off
He’s president for the theater. People should be realizing anything having to do with him is bullshit and entertaining him and the dramas that revolves around him makes you part of the problem.
What do you mean by “literal” anus?
Every time a side of him opens, shit comes out of it.
a friend of Trump’s
In a VERY loose sense of the word.
My favourite? The overspray. Really classes up the national monument. Chef’s kiss.
Getting paid millions of dollars to paint something and not bothering to do prep work: Priceless
I was gonna bring that up. It’s not a small area, so how bad do you have to be doing things to get such a bad amount of visible overspray from an ariel photo?!
They started with paint rollers, and realized that wasn’t going to work, so they switched to sprayers. Seriously.
There are plastic sheets all around no? So they have no reason to be precise while spraying.
So we have the Epstein pedo party ballroom, and now we have the Epstein pedo party pool.
The reflecting pool on the National Mall is shallow pool / fountain that’s there to look neat. It’s not intended for swimming. It’s an iconic landmark that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Memorial. It’s been featured in all kinds of media, films, and TV for decades. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech was there.
Trump decided that the reflecting pool needed to be painted blue like some kinds of swimming pools. He caused the government to hire “a guy he knows” without putting the contract out for normal competitive bidding.
Also, I think they’re painting directly on to granite, not concrete.
There’s also this shot of the President driving his motorcade of several multi-ton vehicles directly on top of the granite pool.
Because I’m an insufferable pedant sometimes: MLK’s speech was on the Lincoln Memorial steps (they have brass replicas of his foot prints on the very spot). The crowd was gathered in front of those steps and the crowd stretched back alongside the edges of the pool.
Lincoln memorial pool is being painted blue for repairs. Some people think it is illegal and/or looks ugly CNN
It’s not “for repairs.” It is, itself, damage.
Yeah spot on. ‘Granite’ is a wide category of rock. The Vietnam memorial is also apparently granite, I just learned that today. It looks nothing like the reflecting pool, it’s much darker, almost black. The specific types of granite, maybe even the specific quarries, was chosen by each architect for it’s texture and color. Congress paid extra to keep the original granite floor while replacing everything else about it in 2009.
It will never be restored, I don’t think it’s possible. Our generation will have been the last to be able to see the original intended art piece.
Didn’t people paint their pools blue all the time though?
its not a swimming pool, paining it blue ruins the artistic intent of the structure. wouldnt expect any less from lord fuckwad
Also it will now absorb much more heat and heat the water more, likely making filtration much more complex due to changing water conditions.
My pool always gets gross the day or two after a Heatwave starts, and until I ut more chlorine tabs and algaecide, I don’t even like to be near it.
The POOL is fairly simple to get back in line.
This massive reflecting pool? Not so much. Bare minimum the whole system will need redone.
ah yes the common granite swimming pool
Painting this pool a darker color than the concrete that is already there is one of the dumbest things ever. President Pedo routinely lives in opposite world. Complete idiot and waste of DNA.
Just be glad he didn’t paint it gold.
I would love that because it would look like a big piss trough. Stay classy!!
He’s saving that for the Washington Monument.
Are they using felt-tipped pens to paint it? Cause that’s what it looks like in every single picture.
Imagine how high everyone’s getting from all those Sharpies
Looks like they use some sort of sponge technique from art attack
