Donald Trump positioned himself as a swimming pool expert as he touted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations he ordered this year, having put in “more than 100” over his career.

But after spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, the Reflecting Pool now looks arguably worse than it did before.

Aside from the bright green hue of the water — the product of what is reportedly one of the largest algae blooms in recent years — the “industrial-grade swimming pool topping” that Trump chose is already peeling off in sheets.

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        3 days ago

        I think I like the other person’s suggestion that it’s a tag for “hand job”

        Not that it matters at all because we’re just randos on lemmy but isn’t this just the same thing as a /s tag? /hj

        • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I think it’s half joking rather than completely sarcastic because I genuinely do think that you could look at a pond full of algal bloom and find beauty in it, but at the same time I would definitely agree that it’s not what you want in a “reflecting pool”.