Trump spent $14M US to make reflecting pool look blue. Now the water is green

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-reflecting-pool-blue-green-algae-9.7237614

"U.S. President Donald Trump believed he had a solution to the reflecting pool's algae problems: painting its bottom a particular shade of blue. Less than two weeks after the repair work finished, the algae is back.

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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 68d

Islamic green, inshalah 🙏

NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 68d (2 replies)

Dementia Man fucks up everything he touches.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 68d (1 reply)

He has meirdas touch except everything he touches turns to shit.

CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 68d

Mierdas touch

uuj8za@piefed.social · 20 pts · 68d

As someone who maintains his own pool:

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 68d

And their attempted fix was to dump a bunch of hydrogen peroxide in. Which may fix it temporarily but the algae are gonna be back once the sun breaks down the peroxide.

Anyways they should plant some reeds and go for the swamp look at this point.

LouNeko@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 68d

>promised it would cost $1.5 Million of taxpayer money
>gives contract to company working on his private estate pools without considering competing offers
>ends up costing $14 Million of taxpayers money
>iconic monument end up looking like Shrek
>people still say he is some 4D chess playing mastermind for that will save the US

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 68d

lol

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 67d

Oh the metaphor of building a huge swamp.

Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 67d

The only time Republicans went green and they hate it?