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demmiblue

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

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

Paint has begun stripping off the Reflecting Pool just days after Trump's million repainting was finished
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) 2026-06-18T15:10:28.04638057Z

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Paint has begun stripping off the Reflecting Pool just days after Trump's $14 million repainting was finished [View all] demmiblue Jun 18 OP

Live stream of the National Mall: demmiblue Jun 18 #1

Did the Interior Department hire this lady as its press agent? Ocelot II Jun 18 #9

Which contractor did this $1 million paint job? bucolic_frolic Jun 18 #2

Last I saw, it was $16 MILLION! buzzycrumbhunger Jun 18 #6

The perfect metaphor for the entire Trump shit show. Ocelot II Jun 18 #3

Y'all, I'm starting to wonder if Donald Trump is just nowhere near as smart as he claims. tanyev Jun 18 #4

It would seem like a lot more prep work and cure time would have been required to make something like that work. Klarkashton Jun 18 #5

Agreed ProfessorGAC Jun 18 #7

"Very fine pool painters.." ZDU Jun 18 #8

A coupla people passing by ripped off little pieces to keep for posterity demmiblue Jun 18 #10

It may not have been helped by the squads of workers photographed scrubbing the margins Emrys Jun 18 #11