No bid contract to a friend of Trump's in the hotel pool industry. The idea stemmed from Trump seeing the park service scrape algae off the top because of ongoing filtration issues. That's it. He just wants to hide the algae. It's so dumb, and as far as I understand it, pool paint is nearly impossible to remove.
Hey did you know that darker colors reflect less sunlight? They turn a substantial portion of light into heat; I wonder if that will affect the algae. I also wonder how he ever thought something on the bottom of the pool was supposed to hide the surface. That's not how occlusion works.
I'm even more glad that the Democrats are moving quickly to the left and not openly attacking their own progressive party members and mayors. If they didn't do that, it would undermine the only strategic justification we have for not voting. That would mean our inaction did nothing at all except help fascism spread across the entire political spectrum.
Sure glad that's not the case; I'm going to sleep well tonight.
He's president for the theater. People should be realizing anything having to do with him is bullshit and entertaining him and the dramas that revolves around him makes you part of the problem.
so hear me out. does this make a self-heating pool? like i do not know the pool industry. if i did this to my own pool, would i have to warm the water or would it do that to itself?
i mean i don't have a pool but it would make playing chocolate milk so much easier.
The reflecting pool on the National Mall is shallow pool / fountain that's there to look neat. It's not intended for swimming. It's an iconic landmark that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Memorial. It's been featured in all kinds of media, films, and TV for decades. Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech was there.
Trump decided that the reflecting pool needed to be painted blue like some kinds of swimming pools. He caused the government to hire "a guy he knows" without putting the contract out for normal competitive bidding.
Also, I think they're painting directly on to granite, not concrete.
There's also this shot of the President driving his motorcade of several multi-ton vehicles directly on top of the granite pool.
Because I'm an insufferable pedant sometimes: MLK's speech was on the Lincoln Memorial steps (they have brass replicas of his foot prints on the very spot). The crowd was gathered in front of those steps and the crowd stretched back alongside the edges of the pool.
Yeah spot on. 'Granite' is a wide category of rock. The Vietnam memorial is also apparently granite, I just learned that today. It looks nothing like the reflecting pool, it's much darker, almost black. The specific types of granite, maybe even the specific quarries, was chosen by each architect for it's texture and color. Congress paid extra to keep the original granite floor while replacing everything else about it in 2009.
It will never be restored, I don't think it's possible. Our generation will have been the last to be able to see the original intended art piece.
I was gonna bring that up. It’s not a small area, so how bad do you have to be doing things to get such a bad amount of visible overspray from an ariel photo?!
From a technical sense, its dark blue, which will basically absorb all light except blue. Water should absorb blue pretty good. So you'll have a nice water evaporator. It's good for the sinuses.
Things that are a color don't absorb that color, otherwise, that color wouldn't be leaving the thing. A green leaf absorbs most of the visible spectrum except green. In reality it can be more complicated.
From what I understand, his Arc de Trump (seriously, that's what it's called), is going to be located between the pool and the Washington Monument, and will be TALLER than the the Washington Monument. He's making sure it gets a nice reflection.
Honestly I don't mind these super public vanity projects because it will make it impossible for the Grand Ole Pedophiles to wash the stink of Trump off them after he is gone. Like imagine interviews where they tell TMZ we aren't the party of Trump with his stupid fucking arch in the background.
No, it will be on the VA side of the river, and shorter than Washington, but still tall enough to create a hazard to the flight path into national airport. FAA, don’t fail us. 🙏
Using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the National Park Service reconstructed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The pool's water supply system was updated to eliminate stagnant water by circulating water from the Tidal Basin; the pool was formerly filled using potable water from the city.
Seems like algae and other water-borne nasties have been a thing since they started pumping the tidal basin water in.
I get it, don't waste drinking water, but I don't think pumping untreated water into a space without natural flow is going to work. You're basically making stagnant water and a lovely home for algae. Unless there was a steady stream of in/out at a fairly high refresh rate, you're going to get funk. You're trading the consumption of water for consumption of energy to run a pump system 24/7.
Either they need to fully naturalize it by adding plants and other life that balances out things or go full chem. It would still need to be circulated. Just throwing ozone into the water ain't gonna cut it. At that point, you may as well just run a full pool pump system (big one) and filter system with a sanitizer like chlorine or bromine. Potable water has a small amount of chlorine in it already, that's why it wasn't as bad with potable water.
If you start with sanitizer, I would presume that the unfinished concrete wouldn't last long. That may be what is going on. I'm not going to give anyone credit here, but sealing the surface prior to adding sanitizer makes sense. I think there are ways to sanitize with hydrogen peroxide, but I don't know if it would work on a scale like this. Most pools are deeper; this thing is only like 18 inches deep. That means very high evaporation relative to the total volume. Even with chlorine which deteriorates in sunlight, any sanitzing agent will will be quickly consumed. If you're pumping in basin water with lots of organic material and then throwing chlorine into it, the result will be a lot of nitrogen trichloride aka chloramine. It smells like pool, but with this much surface area it will be REALLY smelly.
That would be a fitting result of all of this. A giant pool of chemical soup and a resultant stink so nasty that nobody can go near it.
Painting this pool a darker color than the concrete that is already there is one of the dumbest things ever.
President Pedo routinely lives in opposite world.
Complete idiot and waste of DNA.
This one in particular has a lot of details that reward / punish close zoomed-in examination, I think.
This one shows that some of the banners surrounding the site have been defaced, including at least two sections which appear to have been sliced out with a box cutter or something similar. I'm curious what was on those parts that were removed.
News about the pool project got me to dig into my crummy tourist snapshots from 2024. And the reflecting pool appeared ... blue? What are we after with all this, again?
Maybe the real purpose is to keep the president occupied with trivia, distracted from whatever the vile shits behind his throne are up to.
Trump wanted to give 10+ mil taxpayer money to a crony. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets a little taste himself, or gets some work comped on his properties. There is also probably an aspect of reminding people he existed years down the road when he's dead, because he is a narcissist.
If the Reds ever get fucked off Mount Olympus, this orange kid-diddler will definitely be remembered. The same way people like Hitler and Pol Pot are remembered
Oh come on, it's just $18 million. I mean, seriously, could you find someone to do it cheaper than $25 million?? If you ask me, $40 million is an absolute steal.
I love how Donald trump is a bad business guy and always fails (upward it seems...sigh). I have to laugh, though, when he even fails at painting concrete. This is a kindergarten level skill we're talking about here. Is there nothing he can do?
104 Comments
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 166 pts · 105d
No bid contract to a friend of Trump's in the hotel pool industry. The idea stemmed from Trump seeing the park service scrape algae off the top because of ongoing filtration issues. That's it. He just wants to hide the algae. It's so dumb, and as far as I understand it, pool paint is nearly impossible to remove.
Hey did you know that darker colors reflect less sunlight? They turn a substantial portion of light into heat; I wonder if that will affect the algae. I also wonder how he ever thought something on the bottom of the pool was supposed to hide the surface. That's not how occlusion works.
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 105d
You’re trying to rationalize the mind of a literal anus. Quit while you’re ahead
stoy@lemmy.zip · 55 pts · 105d
Hey, please don't insult the anus, it is a very important bodypart
determinist@kbin.earth · 24 pts · 105d
he's like a haemorrhoid in an anus.
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 105d
He’s more like a skid mark on the underpants of American history
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social · 6 pts · 105d
More like a soiled dipe.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
More like a pustulous parasite.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 105d
"he lacks the warmth and the depth"
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d
General every
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 41 pts · 105d
At least we don't have Harris in office, we dodged a bullet there. /s
normanwall@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 105d
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 39 pts · 105d
And she might have supported Israel in an ongoing genocide!
And started a trade war!
Sure glad none of this stuff is happening.
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 105d
I'm even more glad that the Democrats are moving quickly to the left and not openly attacking their own progressive party members and mayors. If they didn't do that, it would undermine the only strategic justification we have for not voting. That would mean our inaction did nothing at all except help fascism spread across the entire political spectrum.
Sure glad that's not the case; I'm going to sleep well tonight.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 105d
Mask
Off
cornshark@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
What do you mean by "literal" anus?
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 105d
Every time a side of him opens, shit comes out of it.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 105d
He's president for the theater. People should be realizing anything having to do with him is bullshit and entertaining him and the dramas that revolves around him makes you part of the problem.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 105d
I think you got your answer right there
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 105d
I'm surprised he didn't paint it a gaudy fake gold tbh
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 105d
Does this imply Trump actually paid one of his pool contractors for work rendered enough times for them to be on friendly terms? Honestly surprising.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 105d
so hear me out. does this make a self-heating pool? like i do not know the pool industry. if i did this to my own pool, would i have to warm the water or would it do that to itself?
i mean i don't have a pool but it would make playing chocolate milk so much easier.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 104d
Isn't like basically every pool liner blue?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
That's from all the microwater in the plastic
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 105d
In a VERY loose sense of the word.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
A sandblaster wouldn't have any trouble. There just needs to be a willingness to do it.
StillAlive@piefed.world · 66 pts · 105d
mkwt@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 105d
The reflecting pool on the National Mall is shallow pool / fountain that's there to look neat. It's not intended for swimming. It's an iconic landmark that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Memorial. It's been featured in all kinds of media, films, and TV for decades. Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech was there.
Trump decided that the reflecting pool needed to be painted blue like some kinds of swimming pools. He caused the government to hire "a guy he knows" without putting the contract out for normal competitive bidding.
Also, I think they're painting directly on to granite, not concrete.
There's also this shot of the President driving his motorcade of several multi-ton vehicles directly on top of the granite pool.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 14 pts · 105d
Because I'm an insufferable pedant sometimes: MLK's speech was on the Lincoln Memorial steps (they have brass replicas of his foot prints on the very spot). The crowd was gathered in front of those steps and the crowd stretched back alongside the edges of the pool.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 105d
Lincoln memorial pool is being painted blue for repairs. Some people think it is illegal and/or looks ugly CNN
grue@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 105d
It's not "for repairs." It is, itself, damage.
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 105d
Yeah spot on. 'Granite' is a wide category of rock. The Vietnam memorial is also apparently granite, I just learned that today. It looks nothing like the reflecting pool, it's much darker, almost black. The specific types of granite, maybe even the specific quarries, was chosen by each architect for it's texture and color. Congress paid extra to keep the original granite floor while replacing everything else about it in 2009.
It will never be restored, I don't think it's possible. Our generation will have been the last to be able to see the original intended art piece.
krisevol@lemmus.org · -16 pts · 105d
Didn't people paint their pools blue all the time though?
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 48 pts · 105d
its not a swimming pool, paining it blue ruins the artistic intent of the structure. wouldnt expect any less from lord fuckwad
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 105d
Also it will now absorb much more heat and heat the water more, likely making filtration much more complex due to changing water conditions.
My pool always gets gross the day or two after a Heatwave starts, and until I ut more chlorine tabs and algaecide, I don't even like to be near it.
The POOL is fairly simple to get back in line.
This massive reflecting pool? Not so much. Bare minimum the whole system will need redone.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 105d
ah yes the common granite swimming pool
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 105d
Are they using felt-tipped pens to paint it? Cause that’s what it looks like in every single picture.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 8 pts · 105d
Looks like they use some sort of sponge technique from art attack
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 105d
Imagine how high everyone's getting from all those Sharpies
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
Yeah they actually got the idea from the Homestuck Sharpie Bath.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 105d
My favourite? The overspray. Really classes up the national monument. Chef's kiss.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 105d
I was gonna bring that up. It’s not a small area, so how bad do you have to be doing things to get such a bad amount of visible overspray from an ariel photo?!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 14 pts · 105d
They started with paint rollers, and realized that wasn't going to work, so they switched to sprayers. Seriously.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 105d
There are plastic sheets all around no? So they have no reason to be precise while spraying.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 105d
Getting paid millions of dollars to paint something and not bothering to do prep work: Priceless
jobbies@lemmy.zip · 47 pts · 105d
Thats awful. Can't beleive you guys are just letting that man trash your country.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 105d
Oh no, the country founded on Indian burial grounds, slavery, and not wanting to pay taxes isnt a good place! Who could have guessed?!?!?
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 104d
Don't forget the misogyny!
MisterD@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 105d
But he's our Lord and savior /s
altphoto@lemmy.today · 28 pts · 105d
From a technical sense, its dark blue, which will basically absorb all light except blue. Water should absorb blue pretty good. So you'll have a nice water evaporator. It's good for the sinuses.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 105d
Isn't DC already super humid all the time anyway?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 105d
Super saturation! Let's aim higher!
papitoooo@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 105d
It’s saturation like no one’s ever seen
Wav_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d
600%
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 104d
Things that are a color don't absorb that color, otherwise, that color wouldn't be leaving the thing. A green leaf absorbs most of the visible spectrum except green. In reality it can be more complicated.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 104d
Yes, but this is the internet. If you want to talk about spectral absorption and notch filtering see me after class LOL.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 24 pts · 105d
From what I understand, his Arc de Trump (seriously, that's what it's called), is going to be located between the pool and the Washington Monument, and will be TALLER than the the Washington Monument. He's making sure it gets a nice reflection.
Lovely.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 105d
I wonder what will become of all these garish monuments he leaves behind once history correctly sees him as neo-Hitler?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 9 pts · 105d
We should pass a law that it is illegal to name anything after him, or build any monument to him. How many statues of Hitler are there in Germany?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 104d
Interestingly, there never were any statues of Hitler in Germany, even when he was in power. Lots of portraits and busts, though.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 105d
oh dude, literally the previous post i was on. synchronicity.
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 104d
I'm hoping someone takes it upon themselves to have them torn down after his reign. State sanctioned or otherwise.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 104d
Honestly I don't mind these super public vanity projects because it will make it impossible for the Grand Ole Pedophiles to wash the stink of Trump off them after he is gone. Like imagine interviews where they tell TMZ we aren't the party of Trump with his stupid fucking arch in the background.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 105d
No, it will be on the VA side of the river, and shorter than Washington, but still tall enough to create a hazard to the flight path into national airport. FAA, don’t fail us. 🙏
froh42@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 105d
Arsch de Trump, as we say in Germany.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 104d
Small penis energy from dumpy
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 105d
So we have the Epstein pedo party ballroom, and now we have the Epstein pedo party pool.
Darthcapi@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 105d
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 105d
If there is one pool that deserves to be pissed in, this is it.
Darthcapi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 105d
blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 105d
Using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the National Park Service reconstructed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The pool's water supply system was updated to eliminate stagnant water by circulating water from the Tidal Basin; the pool was formerly filled using potable water from the city.
Seems like algae and other water-borne nasties have been a thing since they started pumping the tidal basin water in.
I get it, don't waste drinking water, but I don't think pumping untreated water into a space without natural flow is going to work. You're basically making stagnant water and a lovely home for algae. Unless there was a steady stream of in/out at a fairly high refresh rate, you're going to get funk. You're trading the consumption of water for consumption of energy to run a pump system 24/7.
Either they need to fully naturalize it by adding plants and other life that balances out things or go full chem. It would still need to be circulated. Just throwing ozone into the water ain't gonna cut it. At that point, you may as well just run a full pool pump system (big one) and filter system with a sanitizer like chlorine or bromine. Potable water has a small amount of chlorine in it already, that's why it wasn't as bad with potable water.
If you start with sanitizer, I would presume that the unfinished concrete wouldn't last long. That may be what is going on. I'm not going to give anyone credit here, but sealing the surface prior to adding sanitizer makes sense. I think there are ways to sanitize with hydrogen peroxide, but I don't know if it would work on a scale like this. Most pools are deeper; this thing is only like 18 inches deep. That means very high evaporation relative to the total volume. Even with chlorine which deteriorates in sunlight, any sanitzing agent will will be quickly consumed. If you're pumping in basin water with lots of organic material and then throwing chlorine into it, the result will be a lot of nitrogen trichloride aka chloramine. It smells like pool, but with this much surface area it will be REALLY smelly.
That would be a fitting result of all of this. A giant pool of chemical soup and a resultant stink so nasty that nobody can go near it.
midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 105d
The floor of the pool is the original granite from the 1920s, but most of the structure is new concrete from 2009.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 105d
They should just do what that chinese emperor of old did and fill it with mercury.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 105d
Idk... The Walmart blue really gives it some authority.
Zier@fedia.io · 5 pts · 105d
This 'upgrade' is now a 'rollback'.
Zier@fedia.io · 16 pts · 105d
Painting this pool a darker color than the concrete that is already there is one of the dumbest things ever. President Pedo routinely lives in opposite world. Complete idiot and waste of DNA.
LemmiChanga@programming.dev · 15 pts · 105d
Just be glad he didn’t paint it gold.
Zier@fedia.io · 9 pts · 105d
I would love that because it would look like a big piss trough. Stay classy!!
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d
He’s saving that for the Washington Monument.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
I imagine he'll just knock that down.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 14 pts · 105d
Not my pictures: "Reflecting Pool Boondoggle" Flickr Album.
This one in particular has a lot of details that reward / punish close zoomed-in examination, I think.
This one shows that some of the banners surrounding the site have been defaced, including at least two sections which appear to have been sliced out with a box cutter or something similar. I'm curious what was on those parts that were removed.
News about the pool project got me to dig into my crummy tourist snapshots from 2024. And the reflecting pool appeared ... blue? What are we after with all this, again?
Maybe the real purpose is to keep the president occupied with trivia, distracted from whatever the vile shits behind his throne are up to.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 105d
The Epstein pool, I get it
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 104d
Can I ask why they are painting the floor blue?
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 104d
Embezzlement.
normalentrance@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 104d
Trump wanted to give 10+ mil taxpayer money to a crony. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets a little taste himself, or gets some work comped on his properties. There is also probably an aspect of reminding people he existed years down the road when he's dead, because he is a narcissist.
It certainly isn't because it is a good idea.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 104d
If the Reds ever get fucked off Mount Olympus, this orange kid-diddler will definitely be remembered. The same way people like Hitler and Pol Pot are remembered
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 104d
Fuck you, that's why.
~DJT
Evotech@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 104d
America
nuko147@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 104d
The real news is that was a Trump's choice contractor that would do the job for $1.8 million but the cost got to around $13 million..
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev · 4 pts · 104d
Oh come on, it's just $18 million. I mean, seriously, could you find someone to do it cheaper than $25 million?? If you ask me, $40 million is an absolute steal.
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
Worst. Tammany. Hall. Ever.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 104d
Contractor work is insanely costly. Just buy a bunch of paint lol
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d
I mean they're spending a million per day to keep the national guard deployed in DC. Just have them paint it.
regedit@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 105d
Wtf am I looking at?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 105d
Trump's having the reflecting pool painted blue to make it look "better."
portuga@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 105d
He has a “pool guy” as far as I unwillingly learned and don’t need more information on
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 105d
they are re-doing the reflecting pool
Lanske@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 104d
So much beauty coming out of America these days........
iocase@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 104d
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 104d
I've seen.photo of another angle of this road and the town it's in appeared to be very picturesque and green.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 105d
Stupid is as stupid does.
A literal stain on our nation.
brendansimms@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 104d
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 104d
I love how Donald trump is a bad business guy and always fails (upward it seems...sigh). I have to laugh, though, when he even fails at painting concrete. This is a kindergarten level skill we're talking about here. Is there nothing he can do?
Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 104d
Well at least the hotel had a pool.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 105d
Fun fact: Two different Captain Americas jogged around the reflecting pool.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 104d
The best authors in the history of our species couldn't write failure like what we're witnessing in realtime.
normanwall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 105d
o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 104d
Someone should go paint: " TRUMP-EPSTEIN (TM) " in bright white on blue.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 105d
that's one hell of a shadow.