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The reflecting pool was ruined by Donald Trump
by /u/justalazygamer | 114 comments | 2026-06-13T22:52:14+00:00 Central
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| /u/Finest_Johnson The ____________ was ruined by Donald Trump. Choose your own adventure. |
| /u/allisjow I expect RFK Jr to swim in it. The biggest surprise is that Trump didn't invest in bleach stock and fill the entire thing with it. |
| /u/Brave-Professor8275 Yes, RFK would most likely see a cure to Covid or another disease that he doesn't support vaccine for, in swimming in this cesspool! |
| /u/TiePrestigious7265 Probably actually DID do the investment part. Wouldn't surprise me a bit. |
| /u/ItBegins2Tell Nah; the sewage parts per million are too low. |
| /u/BlitzMalefitz He will swim in with his mouth open because I would not put it behind him to claim the algae extends his life |
| /u/MesabiRanger "Choose you own adventure" is Reddit comment of the day! |
| /u/ViolettaQueso And this particular adventure was at least $15M of tax payer dollars. |
| /u/Actor412 The _________ was ruined by donald trump. It cost the US taxpayers $ _______ million dollars. |
| /u/ViolettaQueso 1) everything 2) infinity |
| /u/Conscious-Rip4407 Hey, you weren't supposed to be paying attention! |
| /u/ViolettaQueso It's hot. I'd be doing anything else but attention paying if it weren't so flipping hot lol |
| /u/Bulky-Internal8579 I'm only 100% sure that whomever actually got paid for this shitty work gave money to Trump or someone in his family. |
| /u/ViolettaQueso "No bid contracts" were exactly why we used to have policies and DEI before this effer took over. |
| /u/HotPinkLollyWimple The enshittification continues. |
| /u/BortInSpace You are correct: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/trump-no -bid-contract-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool |
| /u/Brave-Professor8275 Since when do presidents get to decide to spend this outrageous amount of tax payers dollars on refurbishing the White House or its associated monuments? This should at the very least be decided by bipartisan votes with recommendations from the finance committee |
| /u/ViolettaQueso That's actually the constitution. Congress is ignoring it. |
| /u/TiePrestigious7265 It is Trump who is ignoring it. |
| /u/Roakana It's is both. Congress has power of the purse but they have stepped away from their responsibilities. Thus Trump does what he wants. |
| /u/ViolettaQueso Yep. It's such a mess. |
| /u/Actor412 Since the US voters allowed a notorious crime family take over the white house. |
| /u/Comprehensive_Link67 That would require the US to have a working government. We're well past that point. |
| /u/KawasakiBinja They don't, but Congress are such fucking cowards they don't dare tell Trump "no" or else he'll either sicc MAGA on them or primary them all. Bunch of cowards. |
| /u/Hntrbdnshog GOP members of Congress care more about their jobs than our democracy. |
| /u/dundermiflinity Benefits. They don't give a shit about their jobs. |
| /u/Azair_Blaidd Most of which probably not even going into the project |
| /u/NOTACOSTACOSTACOS Like Mad Libs but Trump ruining shit |
| /u/woodcookiee Side note: Has there ever been right wing parody of Mad Libs? Like, it's right there in the name, it's so easy... but I guess most of their audience has probably never played (or even heard of it) so they wouldn't get it |
| /u/Katomon-EIN- I don't think they're smart enough to make that connection |
| /u/andrew303710 Trump only realized recently that dumb has a b in it so I assume most of his supporters couldn't even complete a mad libs |
| /u/andante528 "A silent 'b', folks! Many people are learning about this, many smart people ... now smart is the opposite of dumb, if you didn't know. Many people don't. Silent letters, why not silent women? Right?" |
| /u/AmberCurious Absolutely, everything the man touches turns to shit. |
| /u/BeastInDarkness Some things a good bit more literally than others. Case in point. |
| /u/SkynyrdCohen I will never get over The Rose Garden. |
| /u/jd3marco It would be more efficient to list the things that Trump has touched and not ruined. |
| /u/saintdudegaming but they just drained it! |
| /u/Bulky-Internal8579 They're making it swampier and more rape friendly - you know, Trump priorities... |
| /u/Amateurlapse https://preview.redd.it/dsfhpp1bu47h1.jpeg?width=1320&fo rmat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86fea4d3b636583e2574f37522e713cd4c 7ac414 |
| /u/Homebrewer01 Don't believe your eyes, this isnt swamp water. This is the most purest natural spring water you've ever seen. The pope will be asking to use reflecting pool water in lieu of holy water. |
| /u/herefromyoutube If trump doesn't drink it but eats fish fillets.... |
| /u/spilk the whole point of draining the swap was to make room so they could fill it back up with toxic waste |
| /u/xXXxRMxXXx Yes, they drained the swamp, and they put that swamp water in this pool. |
| /u/SteynXS I THOUGHT POOLS WERE BLUE OLNY IN FAIRY TALES MEANT FOR SOMEONE ELSE BUT NOT FOR ME SO I CHANGE IT, YES I DID (AND BIGLY) THAT'S THE WAY IT SEEMED DISAPPOINTMENT! OBAMA STILL HAUNTS ALL OF MY DREAMS! Orange Mouth - BELIEVE ME! |
| /u/hurdurBoop that's actually blue and perfectly clear |
| /u/Brocid3n Actually is mostly "bUt BiDeN" and their other regular talking points without any actual proof |
| /u/hurdurBoop DOE BIBBEN MADES IT GREENE THO |
| /u/SkunkleButt You joke but they seriously blamed it on biden and obama claiming it's algae leftover in the pipes from their administration. |
| /u/andante528 I wish you were kidding, because that's beyond pathetic, but I know you're not. |
| /u/ItsSadTimes The average American never ceases to amaze me with how stupid they are. I had my suspicions of that George Carlin quote "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." But in the last like decade it's been proven right over and over again. |
| /u/ShadowTacoTuesday Can you imagine, if algae could even live without sun, why it wouldn't simply be the contractor's responsibility to flush the pipes for a tiny fraction of that multi million dollar contract? That's the type of people who don't get anything done and only play the blame game. Anyway it's an ongoing process to keep re-cleaning it and nothing from years ago affects it. And the maintenance system was already in place before the unrelated paint job. |
| /u/hurdurBoop it's not that i don't buy it, it's just that it doesn't matter coming from the stupidest political movement in history |
| /u/justalazygamer This is the source. If the time stamp doesn't work you can see this at 44 minutes. This is an important video to have because this is someone who came to DC trying to make Trump look good and it is timestamped proving it is from today. EDIT: She also has video of how much better it was under Joe Biden. She only complains because Trump told them to. |
| /u/minidazzler1 But where was Obama? Why didnt he sort this out? /s |
| /u/Responsible-Chest-26 Funny thing is the special pump Obama had installed wasnt turned on, or something along those lines |
| /u/snarkerella They took it out and never installed something else to take its place. |
| /u/No_Fairweathers That sums up literally 99% of what Trump has done Removed funding and necessary things from previous administrations claiming they were unnecessary, then when shit hits the fan because he destroyed what was working, claims it was their fault and he was just trying to fix things. |
| /u/LadyJR Like the playbook for preventing a catastrophic disease from ravage the country. |
| /u/No_Fairweathers How was he supposed to know the CDC's warning of an extremely high risk of a pandemic outbreak in the coming years wasn't all just made up nonsense? /s |
| /u/andrew303710 Lmao that's fucking hilarious, Trump is having the worst birthday weekend so far it's glorious. First his name comes off the Kennedy center and now this. Praying for rain and thunderstorms tomorrow night during the UFC fight, that would be the ultimate sign that God exists. Odds are looking good. https://preview.redd.it/y6r2nglp057h1.jpeg?width=1320&f ormat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98a279af3f4590894a6191d2bb0e9883b fcdcc68 |
| /u/F1BlackFlag Most events will evacuate with lightning in close proximity, my bet is, there will be that lightning but Trump will put out a memorandum that they do not stop or delay anything. Maybe go as far as to start firing NWS folks who put that warning out for citizens. |
| /u/SocialistNixon NWS gonna all get the day off tomorrow. |
| /u/RealGoGo97 My most fervent wish is that there will be a tremendous thunder and lightning storm... with high winds. "The Claw" will come down. Please make it so! Of course, it goes without saying that I don't want anyone to be hurt, but I do want total destruction of the structure and a complete interruption of the fights. |
| /u/EobardT Also of of curiosity I looked up the card for the fight, almost half of the athletes are international. Way to promote America! |
| /u/JerseyCoJo Apparently they didn't invite an American champion. Sean Strickland. Sean pops off at the mouth allot and is a bit rough around the edges but said straight up he's not fighting to entertain the Epstein class. He just fought and won the belt a few weeks ago so he wasn't going to be booked to fight but for him to not be invited is wild. Dana White supports people who rape kids. No two ways about it. |
| /u/Stable-Jackfruit Like Obamacare, we've got to remove Obamapump as well |
| /u/Responsible-Chest-26 Yeah, it was something like that |
| /u/sideshowmario You mean Barack HUSSEIN Obama? Wasn't he busy ignoring 9/11 or building a secret army to invade cities to take all our guns or something? |
| /u/andante528 Yes, I remember when Obama showed up to take all of our guns, but he was so scared of the guns and the regular mustard in our AMERICAN refrigerator that he ran away. Would Trump do this? No, he can't run a single step. That's how brave he is. |
| /u/Cereal_kilher Taking a nap with sleepy Joe on Joey Tribiani's couch. I heard it's comfortable. |
| /u/lallapalalable Lmao it looked beautiful in that second video. I bet they literally pumped water right from the river without treatment after the paint job |
| /u/Baelzabub It wouldn't have really mattered where they pumped it from unless they constantly chemically treated it after darkening the bottom. Dark surfaces heat quicker in sunlight. You know what LOVES warm water and sunlight? Algae. |
| /u/jaydubbles A body of water that size has a well-established ecology if beneficial microorganisms keeping the nutrients in balance. They destroyed that when they drained it and painted it. Now that ecology has to reestablish itself, which would take quite a while with the help of commercially available bacterial supplements. But they'll probably dump chemicals in it for a quick fix which will make it worse. Anyone who has kept an aquarium knows about this. I would assume any knowledgeable federal park employee would also understand. Anyway, I hope the stank ass water ruins his big birthday party in his front yard. I hope he's miserable because it looks like shit when he's trying to impress all his friends. |
| /u/WoodShoeDiaries How long until it starts to stink 🤢 |
| /u/thatcodingboi She talks about it leaking into the Potomac... Where does she think the water comes from to fill this? It's pumped from the Potomac... Also the leaks they were discussing weren't from the pool itself, it was in the pipes from the Potomac that pump it into the pool that were the real problem. Guess what they didn't fix... |
| /u/PowderPills "It was a toxic mess before" Yeah but not now, huh? Shaking my smh |
| /u/SirTiffAlot Listening to this lady justify everything and STILL say it's gorgeous. 'They'll figure it out' |
| /u/feignapathy Literally just a scam to funnel $15m to one of Trump's buddies Awarded the contract with no bid and no competition by Trump |
| /u/TENDER_ONE He's actually famous for never paying his contractors. It's most likely that the "pool guy" he hired is really just a front man who receives a small percentage of the contract in order to funnel it all into Trump's own pockets. He would be incensed to know that he helped enrich anyone else. That's why I knew the $1.8 billion fund to J6ers would never happen. He wants that money for himself. They'd never see more than a couple thousand for their service. |
| /u/vanalla he's famous for not paying contractors when its him footing the bill. Now he gets the coffers paid for by American taxpayers to buy people with. |
| /u/Round-Kick-5580 So did the extra heat and energy cause an almost instant algae bloom because it boils off any chlorine too fast??? |
| /u/SkiyeBlueFox Apparently they also made the filter nonfunctional |
| /u/Memerandom_ But they only hired the best sleazebags with no experience outside pools at only 4x over budget. Wcgw? |
| /u/Homebrewer01 Don't get all pool sciency on us. Obvious and only conclusion is sabotage. |
| /u/AboveGroundFool Listen all y'all it's a sabotage! |
| /u/michilio Ah can't stand it. You know they planned it Imma set straigh, this water feature |
| /u/BayouByrnes Ah. Fuck me. I lol'd hard at this. Thank you. |
| /u/K4m30 Didn't they remove the pump or filter or whatever, and not replace it? |
| /u/NotActuallyGus The piping and filters were already giving out, and then they refused to fix them and broke them the rest of the way |
| /u/BungleBums Ten points and a gold star for summing it up for the rest of us |
| /u/vahntitrio My guess is the paint they used has microparticles that dissolve and provide either nitrogen or phosphorus. Those 2 nutrients are the limiting factor for algae. In most natural bodies of water there is so much nitrogen (thanks to farming) that phosphorus is the limiting agent. |
| /u/Fun_Client_6232 It seems to me (and I have absolutely no expertise in this area) that an aquarium sized (like Sea World sized) filtration system was needed instead of just painting it blue. |
| /u/snarkerella When you're so petty you fail to include the Obama-implemented filtration system back into the pool. |
| /u/Attica451 But but...they painted the bottom blue so this wouldn't happen! |
| /u/The_Velvet_Bulldozer Just look at that American Flag Green! It was always green. |
| /u/not_productive1 The reflecting pool always tended to grow algae and wasn't, like, perfect or anything before. It leaked, filtration wasn't really possible, it definitely needed some work. The funniest thing here is that Trump decided to be super loud and fucking weird about said work, focusing on painting the fucking thing like a swimming pool rather than fixing the real issues, so now every time it's kind of gross everybody's going to blame him for it. |
| /u/Underbark Painting it just makes the water absorb heat even more efficiently, making it even more hospitable for algae. Literally anyone with a high school science education could have predicted this. |
| /u/whatdoblindpeoplesee His parents never got him a goldfish/beta/guppies and it shows. |
| /u/acu2005 Paint it black, let the sun boil the algae away. |
| /u/pr0zach I see a green pool and I want to paint it black. |
| /u/SavageNomad6 That's my thing... I've never been there, don't know a ton of details about it, only really seen the more like popular historic photos of it. So idk how green it typically is or isn't. You could tell me that's exactly how it looked since it was built and I'd believe you. The fact that this dude has made such a huge deal about how perfect it is and how no one but him could fix it is why I find it hilarious that this is what it looks like. |
| /u/not_productive1 Exactly. Like all this shit is old and fiddly and it's hard to maintain it, and if you were just honest about that, nobody'd even connect it back to you. I remember once Obama had to leave the WH for like a week and a half for badly needed maintenance work. He didn't yell about how he was the greatest builder to ever build a thing and nobody even assumed he was fucking involved, because the president generally isn't also the super. |
| /u/amphorousish I'm from the DC area & will echo the other response in saying that the reflecting pool has always been leaky, fiddly, algae-prone, and absolutely chock full of goose poop. Like, Forrest Gump came out when I was a child and my immediate response was revulsion when he & Jenny waded through it towards each other. That being said, this is on the broken end of bad and is hilarious for all of the reasons you mentioned. |
| /u/Nythoren They're already blaming Biden. Yes, really. |
| /u/andante528 The Department of the Interior, which our taxes pay for, claims that "dormant" algae from Biden and Obama's presidencies is now showing up because ... I guess it sensed that Trump wanted the pool to look blue? |
| /u/spilk democrat terrorists activated their algae sleeper cells! thanks obama! |
| /u/SopaDeKaiba https://giphy.com/gifs/cN9Fq0kBbqxGg |
| /u/carpenter1965 No No. Thats American Blue. Don't believe your lying eyes. |
| /u/ronerychiver I don't get it. A peace deal was signed with Algae five days ago. |
| /u/Jmaneke Everything trump touches turns to shit. |
| /u/cha0sb1ade The color is symbolic of the wasted spending on the project |
| /u/NexusNickel 6 bankruptcies . 3 different wives. 1 wife bought from a sex offender. Failed husband. Failed father. Failed President. Raped children with Epstein. Is profiting off MAGA idiots and the White House. |
| /u/G3tsPlastered4Alvng It's almost like people said a dark color like blue would create a habitat for algae |