\n\t\t\t\t\t\t President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in \u201cAmerican flag blue,\u201d covering up a decades-old granite surface that he said was \u201cleaking like a sieve\u201d and would take years to replace.The president announced the renovation at an Oval Office event Thursday, saying the coating had already begun. He was inspired to tackle the project after a friend visited from Germany and lamented that the water was filthy and looked disgusting, Trump said.\u201cAnd I went over there with Secret Service in tow, and I said, ‘Isn\u2019t that a shame? That\u2019s terrible,’\u201d Trump said, showing reporters a photo of the site as it undergoes work.The project is one more makeover, refashioning the nation\u2019s capital to Trump\u2019s liking, following others such as the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make room for a new ballroom.Lined with stately elm trees between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the reflecting pool is one of the most iconic sites in the capital. It\u2019s where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech in 1963.In Trump\u2019s telling, the reflection pool project is a case study in business acumen. The president said he scrapped plans to have the granite replaced, which he said was estimated to cost $301 million and would take at least three years.Instead, Trump said he called a few pool contractors he knows from past real estate projects \u2014 \u201cI have a guy who\u2019s unbelievable at doing swimming pools up the road,\u201d Trump said.The president went with a plan to clean the granite and lay down a new \u201cindustrial grade pool\u201d surface for $1.5 million, he said. All told, it would take a few weeks. Trump noted it would be ready well before July 4, when the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence.Trump brought up the project unprompted and spoke about it for several minutes at a White House event on efforts to reduce drug prices. He said he initially wanted a turquoise-colored surface \u201clike in the Bahamas\u201d but was sold when a contractor suggested \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d\u201cYou\u2019re going to end up with a beautiful, beautiful reflecting pool,\u201d Trump said, \u201cthe way it\u2019s supposed to be, much better than it ever was.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in \u201cAmerican flag blue,\u201d covering up a decades-old granite surface that he said was \u201cleaking like a sieve\u201d and would take years to replace.<\/p>\n
The president announced the renovation at an Oval Office event Thursday, saying the coating had already begun. He was inspired to tackle the project after a friend visited from Germany and lamented that the water was filthy and looked disgusting, Trump said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I went over there with Secret Service in tow, and I said, ‘Isn\u2019t that a shame? That\u2019s terrible,’\u201d Trump said, showing reporters a photo of the site as it undergoes work.<\/p>\n
The project is one more makeover, refashioning the nation\u2019s capital to Trump\u2019s liking, following others such as the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make room for a new ballroom.<\/p>\n
Lined with stately elm trees between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the reflecting pool is one of the most iconic sites in the capital. It\u2019s where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech in 1963.<\/p>\n
In Trump\u2019s telling, the reflection pool project is a case study in business acumen. The president said he scrapped plans to have the granite replaced, which he said was estimated to cost $301 million and would take at least three years.<\/p>\n
Instead, Trump said he called a few pool contractors he knows from past real estate projects \u2014 \u201cI have a guy who\u2019s unbelievable at doing swimming pools up the road,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
The president went with a plan to clean the granite and lay down a new \u201cindustrial grade pool\u201d surface for $1.5 million, he said. All told, it would take a few weeks. Trump noted it would be ready well before July 4, when the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence.<\/p>\n
Trump brought up the project unprompted and spoke about it for several minutes at a White House event on efforts to reduce drug prices. He said he initially wanted a turquoise-colored surface \u201clike in the Bahamas\u201d but was sold when a contractor suggested \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re going to end up with a beautiful, beautiful reflecting pool,\u201d Trump said, \u201cthe way it\u2019s supposed to be, much better than it ever was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26323,12462,26326,12,26325,1857,3639,11459,5412,7595,4949,51,349,10552,26321,2920,26322,26324,3819,74,987,512],"class_list":{"0":"post-40565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump","8":"tag-american-flag-blue","9":"tag-capital","10":"tag-case-study","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-granite","13":"tag-history","14":"tag-law","15":"tag-lincoln-memorial","16":"tag-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool","17":"tag-nation","18":"tag-plan","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-president","21":"tag-project","22":"tag-reflecting-pool","23":"tag-site","24":"tag-surface","25":"tag-swimming-pool-surface","26":"tag-tourism","27":"tag-trump","28":"tag-white-house","29":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116456891677662996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}