You will never hear me say that “$14 million is a nothingburger in light of our budget”, but, $10 million is actually a pretty good number for all that they did to the Reflecting Pool. But, Democracy Dies In Darkness, which never investigates where other spending goes, is Upset
From the link
Trump has put the cost of the work on the pool at $1.5 million to $2 million, but records show that at least $14.8 million worth of contracts have been awarded for the project. The president announced the work in April during an unrelated Oval Office appearance, saying he was inspired by complaints from a friend visiting from Germany who called the pool dark and disgusting.
The link itself is from a June 5th story, so, the WP is re-tweeting again and again because they are unhinged. A backyard pool can run between $50K-$100k, excluding decking and stuff. This is a wee bit bigger (though it’s only 30 inches deep) at almost a half mile long, up to 175 feet wide, and has 6.75 million gallons of water. Then having to try and keep it clean. Seriously, the Biden admin was figuring around $300 million (probably $60 million for actual work, the rest in waste and graft). Has the WP complained about the billions wasted from Biden’s EV charging station adventure? How much was graft, fraud, and waste in the whole Green New Deal, er, Inflation Reduction Act? Hell F*ck, how about the entire budget?
Critics have said Trump, a Republican, is spending too much time and attention on his pet projects and not enough on issues that voters care about, like the cost of living, in the run-up to the November elections. Others have said he wants the reflecting pool to look more like a swimming pool.
“Critics” who have TDS, upset that Trump is having people clean up our nation’s capitol. Seriously, you think he spends more time doing this? He has people who do this, and Los Federales have employees who are directed to do this.
Decline is a choice. We have a massive budget and all these employees and we cannot keep things clean and running in the nation’s seat of power? And they overspend when they do stuff. How much more could we do with the money?
The Lincoln Memorial and the whole area around it, along with the walking paths for the Reflecting Pool, were powerwashed. And, yes, this gets done periodically, but, lots of stuff doesn’t get fixed for a long time. Many were in decline for decades. They got the WWII monument all nice and clean and working. But, Dems apparently hate this because Orange Man Bad. And their groups didn’t get graft money.
They whine about 15 million that actually went into America’s economy but have no problems with Somalis stealing billions and sending most of that back to Africa.
I don’t think people comprehend just how large/long the Reflecting Pool is. The Reflecting Pool is 250 feet longer than the World Trade Center is high. An official NFL playing field is 160 feet wide and the Reflecting Pool is 167′ wide. It’s a big job and the plumbing was also replaced.
No, the underlying plumbing was not replaced during the recent June 2026 renovations. While the $13.1 million project resurfaced and painted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, long-standing issues with the cracked, crumbling pipes and broken filtration systems remain unaddressed.
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Nazi platner has regained 75 % of his polling drop and still trending up
Seems Marines vets have some strong feelings about calling a 100% disabled marine with 4 deployments a Nazi because he got a questionable tattoo when he was a sergeant. Predicting betting markets give him a 67% chance of winning against Trump/collins
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The WaPo being hypocritical? Shocking. /sarc
Democrats pretend they didn’t know that the reflecting pool isnt “trump’s reflecting pool”. It is part of the federal agency called the Parks Department. That department has appropriated funds from congress to maintain property and monuments and multi-year schedules, plans and contracts to accomplish that. But TRUUUUMP!
The problem with the reflecting pool hullabaloo was Diaper Donny making a Big Deal about it and blaming his hated enemies, Obama and Biden.
Sleepy shoulda just fixed it and kept his fucking big mouth shut, but he is constitutionally unable to NOT be the center of attention. It’s something every fucking day with this guy…
Latest: Iran ready to surrender in 2 or 3 days!! Again.
And he likes titties of teenager girls…