There are no words on how stupid and corrupt this administration is.
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.
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?
Yes, permanently.
Just drain it and then clean the paint off and sand it down to smooth out the stone again.
Then you can fill the pool with water that has been treated properly.
It’s not hard, it just takes competent people being in charge of it. Not someone’s “pool guy”
It’s not that simple. They’ve already sand blasted and pebble blasted a couple of times, and this is even after the whole granite reflecting pool was torn out and replaced by concrete several years ago.
The truth is, and this is in no way to defend Trump, fixing the problems with the reflecting pool have been an ongoing issue for more than 25 years now. To those knowledgeable on the issue, what makes Trump‘s failure particularly spectacular is that he was so public about it, spent so much money on it, and clearly had such an incredibly ignorant understanding of the problems at it faced, and what is really required to fix the problems, that it only magnified his already Trumpian buffoonery. Although, I am kind of enjoying this ridiculous failure.
The problems with the Reflecting Pool are both numerous and old. It’s a complicated system that is fed by the nearby Potomac River, has a complicated pumping and filtering system, and just a whole bunch of other bullshit that clearly Donald Trump does not understand. A lot of very intelligent people have spent a lot of time and a lot of money trying to fix it, and have still had trouble.
It Trump - with zero knowledge at all (even of its name) thought he could fix it, and hired the most corrupt pool guy he ever met to try – and it has failed so hilariously. Ran on his birthday, too, when a whole butt load of tourists are in Washington DC to see his failure.
The joke here isn’t that Trump failed, which, of course he would, it’s that he failled so publicly and loudly after spending so much time making such a big deal about giving everyone else who did a better job than him shit for not doing what he, himself, has also failed to do.
Like another poster said, it’s truly a microcosm of the MAGA/Republican governing style. Pay a buddy way too much pretending that the problem is easy to solve. The buddy grifts by cheaping out on everything. They fuck up the system so badly it becomes a cesspool. And result is that it gets worse and becomes even more expensive to fix.
Don’t forget the best part… Now that it’s worse than ever, the next attempt to fix it by someone else will be even more expensive and they’ll loudly point that out. It will probably the opposite party because voters swing wildly with no memory.
and they’ll loudly point that out.
So document everything and have the memes ready to keep the memory alive when the next attempt is made.
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
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
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?
As litigious as he is I’m assuming he’s suing this shoddy company for the benefit of the bargain, that is, THEY’LL be on the hook for covering the proper fixes done by a competent company?
How can they need on the hook when he likely never paid them to begin with. I mean we all know how Trump likes to treat his contractors
The company has 20k in assets. The money paid for the original work has already been spent on various “consultants” and other nontangible expenses. Many to people or companies that only exist on paper and all funnel back to a few individuals.
The company is found liable, but doesn’t have the resources to pay for restorations and folds. No money is ever returned. No repairs are made. The $14m is “gone” in the bank accounts of the corrupt.
A new pool company is opened, the assets from the first are sold at bargain prices to the new to liquidate it’s measly assets to satisfy courts and bankruptcy requirements. All are ready for a new grift.
Let’s bring back debtors’ prisons then. I’m fucking sick and tired of all the “there’s nothing we can do” bullshit. There ARE things, but no one has the stomach for them.
Debtors prisons are pretty terrible and hurt the vulnerable.
Remove a lot of the legal separation between a corporation and those that own and run it. Make the owners and leadership liable and don’t stop at the articles of incorporation.