Fun fact: Two different Captain Americas jogged around the reflecting pool.
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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
that's one hell of a shadow.
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.
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?
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.
So we have the Epstein pedo party ballroom, and now we have the Epstein pedo party pool.
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.
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.
how he ever thought
I think you got your answer right there
I'm surprised he didn't paint it a gaudy fake gold tbh
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
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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.
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a friend of Trump’s
In a VERY loose sense of the word.
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.
He’s saving that for the Washington Monument.
I would love that because it would look like a big piss trough. Stay classy!!
Stupid is as stupid does.
A literal stain on our nation.
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
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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.
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Wtf am I looking at?
He has a “pool guy” as far as I unwillingly learned and don’t need more information on
Trump's having the reflecting pool painted blue to make it look "better."
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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
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