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demmiblue

(40,075 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:16 PM Thursday

Paint has begun stripping off the Reflecting Pool just days after Trump's $14 million repainting was finished

Paint has begun stripping off the Reflecting Pool just days after Trump's million repainting was finished
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Paint has begun stripping off the Reflecting Pool just days after Trump's $14 million repainting was finished (Original Post) demmiblue Thursday OP

Live stream of the National Mall: demmiblue Thursday #1

Did the Interior Department hire this lady as its press agent? Ocelot II Thursday #9

Which contractor did this $1 million paint job? bucolic_frolic Thursday #2

Last I saw, it was $16 MILLION! buzzycrumbhunger Thursday #6

The perfect metaphor for the entire Trump shit show. Ocelot II Thursday #3

Y'all, I'm starting to wonder if Donald Trump is just nowhere near as smart as he claims. tanyev Thursday #4

It would seem like a lot more prep work and cure time would have been required to make something like that work. Klarkashton Thursday #5

Agreed ProfessorGAC Thursday #7

"Very fine pool painters.." ZDU Thursday #8

A coupla people passing by ripped off little pieces to keep for posterity demmiblue Thursday #10

It may not have been helped by the squads of workers photographed scrubbing the margins Emrys Thursday #11

demmiblue

(40,075 posts)

1. Live stream of the National Mall:

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:24 PM

Thursday

https://nationalmall.org/monumentcam

There is a literal live stream you can watch and the pool looks like it has diseased splotches nationalmall.org/monumentcam
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Ocelot II

(131,806 posts)

9. Did the Interior Department hire this lady as its press agent?

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 03:33 PM

Thursday

나노버블 발생기!

bucolic_frolic

(56,319 posts)

2. Which contractor did this $1 million paint job?

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:26 PM

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buzzycrumbhunger

(2,390 posts)

6. Last I saw, it was $16 MILLION!

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:34 PM

Thursday

No bid contact, awarded to some schlub he knew…

Ocelot II

(131,806 posts)

3. The perfect metaphor for the entire Trump shit show.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:26 PM

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tanyev

(49,939 posts)

4. Y'all, I'm starting to wonder if Donald Trump is just nowhere near as smart as he claims.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:30 PM

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Klarkashton

(5,505 posts)

5. It would seem like a lot more prep work and cure time would have been required to make something like that work.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:32 PM

Thursday

It looked like a hack job from the start.

No surprise.

ProfessorGAC

(77,673 posts)

7. Agreed

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 12:40 PM

Thursday

Thousands of in-ground pools are painted every year.
There's a correct way to do it & this outfit obviously didn't know the correct way.
Wrong paint? Wrong primer? Insufficiently dry before application?
Not sure, but they screwed up a pretty routine job.