Paul AmanTo paraphrase the greatest business tycoon, S.R. Haddon: “Why ruin one reflecting pool for $13 million, when you can do it all over again for another $13 million… and no one can stop you.”
First rule in government accounting.”
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Given a surface area of 2,030 ft by 167 ft, the reflecting pool would require 238 gals per coat of paint. Allow 2 coats. That’s 476 gals. For $13.1 M, that’s $27,521 per applied gallon of paint.
Are we using neurosurgeons?
Mathrubhumi EnglishWhy Trump’s ‘American flag blue’ Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool makeover sparked lawsuit from NGO? https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/trump-administration-sued-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-redesign-xv3rlfrb?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Trump #WashingtonDC #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool #USPolitics
Crooks&LiarsHow...garish. @MrScarce #ReflectingPool
C Z Doval Santos“ By JOSH GERSTEIN
05/11/2026 12:01 PM EDT
Preservationists are asking a federal judge to immediately halt President Donald Trump's ongoing project to resurface the reflecting pool on the National Mall. “ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/trump-reflecting-pool-lawsuit-00914078 #ReflectingPool
05/11/2026 12:01 PM EDT
Preservationists are asking a federal judge to immediately halt President Donald Trump's ongoing project to resurface the reflecting pool on the National Mall. “ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/trump-reflecting-pool-lawsuit-00914078 #ReflectingPool
Kim Perales"Trump claimed Thurs: #ReflectingPool project🚨will cost ~$1.8M."
"The actual cost is now🚨>7X that, after the Interior Dept nearly doubled: size of the contract last week.""
-D Dale
The govt awarded that firm a🚨no-bid contract last mo, bypassing the req *sit was so urgent that any delay would cause “serious injury” to the govt *hasn't publicly said what that injury would've been. Int SPOX: “nec to expedite the TL of completing the leak prev coating..."
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/reflecting-pool-paint-contract-trump.html
Nonilex“This latest desecration of the reflecting pool is part of a pattern … in which this Administration willfully disregards #legal limits established by #Congress,” the Cultural Landscape Foundation wrote in its filing.
#Trump last month unveiled his rapid project to resurface the #ReflectingPool, saying that a contractor convinced him to use “American Flag Blue” to cover the pool’s basin. Trump has said the project will be completed by July 4, in honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
The foundation also wrote that the Commission of Fine Arts, a federal agency that advises on design projects related to the capital, has been involved with past changes to the #ReflectingPool but did not review the new #Trump project.
Charles A. Birnbaum, who heads the foundation, noted that the neutral colors originally used for the pool’s basin were intended to convey greater #depth & #reflection, which is now threatened by Trump’s changes.
Nonprofit sues to stop Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool, a #HistoricSite
A Washington-area nonprofit Monday asked a federal court to halt Trump’s efforts to resurface the #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool, saying that #Trump [once again] failed to undergo required federal reviews before applying a blue color to the basin.
#law #landmark #preservation #UShistory #HandsOffOurProperty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/11/trump-reflecting-pool-lawsuit-memorial/
Voteinorout 🇺🇸President Trump directed a $6.9 million contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue, bypassing standard procedures. He used an exemption meant for emergencies, citing a personal connection to the contractor. #Trump #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool
The exemption is typically reserved for preventing “serious injury, financial or other, to the government.” However, no such claim was ... https://instagr.am/p/DYJQD1ZjLQX/