There are no words on how stupid and corrupt this administration is.
Jeez. This dumb fuck really does fuck everything he touches, doesn’t he
He paid a lot of taxpayer money to a friend, and I’m sure he got a hefty kick-back too. Why would he care beyond that?
Concrete still too wet and poorly prepared for the paint, in short, incorrectly applied
A great success: the dirty, smelly, green pond with chunks floating on the surface from some cowboy MAGA contractor whose work lasted one week will be a perfect symbol of the USA on its 250th birthday.
Truly, we are a decadent empire.
Murica is now a soap series, great success in the rest of the planet
No complaints have been reported, however, from the local ducks, who have been conducting business as usual.
The reflecting pool is turned green to represent Red White and Green of Iran on the occasion of Iran’s victory.
Wait… they’ve been dumping bleach and hydrogen peroxide and who knows what in the pool, did they actually fuck it up from sheer incompetence?
No they paid $17 million to a contractor to do a $500 job. It’s not incompetence, it’s corruption.
did they actually fuck it up from sheer incompetence?
Fucking things up with sheer incompetence has been a hallmark of this entire administration. At this point, I’d be astonished if it was just a run-of-the-mill accident.
According to the article
No complaints have been reported, however, from the local ducks, who have been conducting business as usual.
Apparently, they don’t mind the hydrogen peroxide. But maybe that’s just the article trying to be funny.
Is that a serious question?
With this country, at this point you can say ‘yes, they fucked it up because if she incompetence’
The it in the sentence can be almost everything…. Only a few things are also because of evil
I just realized my first reaction to this was “SURELY it can’t be this shady contractor that fucked up, it had to have been the US government” and the fact there’s a decent chance that this is correct is somehow still amazing to me.
It’s both. This couldn’t have happened unless the contractor, and the government employees involved, weren’t in agreement here.
Dude, American Patriot Desert Eagle USA Coatings Inc, LLC is sooOooo legit.
Everything this cunt touches dies. If you want to destroy something, just convince donald the rapist trump to get involved.
The fact that this is essentially a swamp has to be one of the craziest things yet. in terms of life imitating art. I mean, it’s exactly what you’d expect out of a book. Absolutely beautiful IRL symbolism and irony
Well, where else would he drain it to?
Why is that government fault? The company which made the floor fucked up their job up.
Edit: Yep, it’s entirely Trumps fault.
Because the government specifically overpaid to hire trumps personal pool guy for a no bid contract.
Because Trump hand-picked the pool guys and gave them a no-bid contract for 18 million of our tax dollars.
And now we have a giant pool full of Brawndo, just in time for the 4th of July.
Usually a couple different contractors would make bids for how much they could do the job for. Then you’d pick the one you think could do the best job for the price they’re offering.
Instead trump just hand picked this guy and gave him $14 million. Very unusual process and the company was hand picked by trump. This is why it’s the governments fault.
No bid contract?
Background: Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool and Reflecting Pool Contract Has ‘Inflated’ Profit Margin, Government Analysis Finds
So if you think $14 million is too much money for what is basically a paint job, you would be correct. Trump gave his buddy a no-bid contract at way too high a price. And it turns out they were incompetent too. Additionally, I would be surprised if Trump did not get a personal kickback from they $14 million in taxpayer dollars paid to the incompetent firm.
I think the original contract was for under $2 million. But (at least partially) because there was no bidding process, we ended up with Trump’s pool guy who then went on to increase that contract amount by 700% to $14 million.
Presumably, change orders needed to be issued to increase the contact amount. Meaning multiple people, including engineers presumably, reviewed and approved these changes. Most places would also have an environmental review, but somehow I sincerely doubt that happened.
Every single person involved in this process needs to be, at the very least, suspended pending an investigation.
For any real contract for capital projects, a 700% increase in contract amount through change orders would never be approved, and the entity paying the contractor for the work would do everything they could to kill the contract and ensure that they don’t need to spend 700x the amount they agreed to. Because it would fuck their budget completely, among other things.
As I understand it, the paint caused the pool to heat up causing the algae to bloom causing the pH to go up causing the paint to peel. So hypothetically not the painters job if he expected the counter measures that should have been in place to work, but realistically that should have been addressed and confirmed well before the pool was even emptied.
Yup. Dark blue is a fine color for a small pool people are going to swim in, but in a huge pool like this, it absorbed tons of sunlight, heated up the water and just made the algae grow faster.
We don’t know the specifics here, but yes, engineers should have designed and approved the plans and specifications. Those engineers should have been available throughout construction to address possible issues. But given how fast they started doing this, and now seeing the results, I don’t think that happened.
That said, for the amount of money they received, they should have had sub contractors who aren’t painters, but are maybe more experts on plumbing, or algae reduction, etc.
In a real capital project, where everyone involved actually gives a fuck about the outcome and the quality of work, there would have been ongoing discussions between the contractor and the design engineers to make sure that the final product isn’t riddled with these stupid, foreseeable, problems.
But yeah, don’t think that happened. And it’s not because they didn’t have the budget.
If I worked for the federal government, and was tasked with rubber stamping this bullshit, I would have said “go fuck yourself, fire me.”
Everyone involved in letting this happen should be ashamed of themselves.
But actually thinking ahead and planning is now woke and un-American, it seems.
100% they will blame liberals for this. Even if they have to invent new idiotic conspiracy theories
They’re blaming Obama for the algae already
Reagan invented it
Yeah, and now they’ll come up with some conspiracy about them sabotaging the new lining
Joe Biden caused the contractors to paint untreated wet concrete?
If I had to guess, it’ll be closer to like, “I heard Mamdani and Obama were hanging out by the reflecting pool at 2am last week, and they were seen dumping large amounts of something into it. The very next day, I was reading stories about the paint peeling.”
Edit: oh look, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/trump-reflecting-pool-renovation-vandalism
One step away from saying it was his Democratic opponents
Of course he did. Why the question mark?
Yeah the administration reflects the country, unlike the pool now
They’ll vote him in again a third time if they’re given the chance
To be clear, that’s more my reflecting pool than it is Trump’s. I pay more taxes than he does and that’s 14mil taxpayer money.
Probably used some crappy house paint instead of properly prepping and sealing cement and then applying a 2-part epoxy meant for continuous contact with water.
The contractor pocketed the difference.
Now we have more plastic type waste, wasted money, wasted news cycle about the dumb job. Have no fear, though, they’ll waste no time at all auditing the job.
Everything trump touches dies.
I think they’ve also been dumping loads of bleach in it to kill the algae.
I imagine most paints won’t appreciate being soaked in hot bleach for a few days.
Let alone whatever crap they used here.
(edit because clarity is important, this is only what I have heard, I don’t have a source other than some short form content I watched about it that claimed it.)
It was hydrogen peroxide, and from what I remember it was 13% (most of the stuff you use at home is 2%, 13% will burn your skin) so the theory I heard is that it might have been eating away at the paint, or getting between the paint and the actual structural layer and causing it to peel off
It was peroxide. You can see the boxes in the video, they’re labeled and say 12%. Apparently bleach was used too, but I haven’t seen the videos of that.
It was hydrogen peroxide. Which is what I said. Although it is 12% not 13%.
I think you need to be told that it was hydrogen peroxide… specifically in 12% concentration :)
You’re most welcome, friend /s
Probably used some crappy house paint
This was comedy yesterday: https://youtu.be/Wz_JVFW83iY?t=554
It’s not nearly the first time an absurb, stupid take on something gets played to extremes for laughs only for that the be the actual path taken despite all the warnings/math/science/reality that have to be ignored. It won’t be the last, either.
It’s truly amazing how he became a billionaire. He really does turn everything to shit
That is what billionaires are. They’re parasites! The idea that they’re intelligent or contributing to the community is a myth they’ve propagated. This is the rule, not the exception.
Just the quality you’d expect.
Ha! I fucking called this not even a week ago! And two people down voted it, btw.
Everyone called it
People are pretty shitty with downvotes tbh. They use them as a more passive middle finger. Just a quick “feel bad, because you are bad” signal. I wish I didn’t care about them but my human nature gets the best of me. If switching instances was easier I’d probably go to one that has them disabled.
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