Reflecting Pool turns green despite 'American flag blue' pledge

John Shea 🍀16

This whole administration is a miscarriage of justice

Luigi in a Coal Mine11

In Texas you can get 30yrs for moving some zines around the house.

Glenn9

It ain’t crazy. It’s fascist.

Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺7

Picking up the floating paint chip was a crime not because it was destroying the pool, but because it revealed the destruction that the Trump regime already knew about but chose not to disclose to the public.

yinzer64.bsky.social7

Take a lectern, leave a shit on the desk….crazy is right

Glenn7

And a large payout if Trump had his way.

Reformed Nut6

"Sealant Team Six" "defending" the Reflecting Pool from #Antifa" has made more arrests than the #DOJ #FBI has over all the names in the #EpsteinFiles

marv88-88.bsky.social5

All of them stormed the capital for a pedophile think about that for a second. How many have gone back to prison for child porn. Lots!!!!

Christian Petersen4

Even a three-year-old could have guessed this one...

Ken4

We're upside down in USA. Trump is convicted on 34 fraud counts by a NY jury. 1500 insurrectionists, led by the same criminal, has their convictions overturned via wholesale pardons (an invitation to further criminal acts). Trump sells pardons to other wealthy convicts. SCOTUS & Congress sell out

5thgenfljane.bsky.social4

The fucker wants people locked up for touching the paint chips while he’s getting away with knocking down the East Wing.

Daniel♾️Shook3

It makes me sad to know that Trump will more than likely never see a day behind bars. We see much of the corruption that he is up to on a daily basis but I’m sure criminal activity planning is on his schedule of illicit goals that we will likely never see.

Inthemountains3

Is it permitted to take a dump in the pool or can you just do that in the Capitol?

Gayle Dourn Plantz3

Kill a cop January 6? You're already oardoned

justtim99.bsky.social3

Tommy does Time in DC

Bert in Colorado3

I’m guessing there are hundreds of non participants at J6 who are now wishing they participated in the violence.🙄

tat1111.bsky.social2

Felon Trump has been a lowlife criminal his entire life… he knows his people, they are the criminal Reich. In the upside down world of a pathological liar and the “religious” right… where wrong is now right and criminals get a pass, while decent people are sent to jail. Welcome to fascism!

Valerie 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇺🇦2

And if you are a convicted rapist & pedophile you are elected president.

DirkNiblick2

I hope that, if we get to elect another President, they immediately pardon all the poor SOBs Trump threw in prison over shit like the paint chips. That is if their grand juries don’t keep laughing them out of court.

LincolnzGhost2

Rape a child and get a cabinet post.

Americans do not realize how much Sovietization is already in place in the USA. And due to the political system, there is really nothing that can be done about it.

🇺🇦 Edelweißpirat 🇱🇹2

A pardon and a check

Oedipal Arrangements 🇵🇸2

Omw to smear shit all over the Capitol building for my billion dollar reward!

enthusiastfacts.bsky.social2

The spoils from the loot are irrestible incentives to sustain the rot and decay at all levels in the GOP and Tя☭mp Judiciary, Legislature, family and syndicate

Robert-JP4

trump was created for destruction. That's what far-right Christian Nationalists mean when they say he was sent by their god.

M 💓🏖️3

Plus, he gets lots of positive validation from his followers and supporters.

Sheena Queen of the Jungle 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱2

Why isn't the press reminding everyone that donald and a security team drove through the pool to "inspect" it when he could have walked along the edge like a normal person. It's possible that those heavy vehicles damaged it then.

DerMann512

A totally-immoral psychopath becomes unstoppable... www.andrewmeier.com/news-reviews...

Organized Domestic Terrorist Wine Mom2

He’s just basically still the bully he always has been…

Peace6

It’s a REFLECTION of what Trump World Has become!

MFSTEVE4

feels weird to see an article like this in The WP

quick-geezer.bsky.social4

The story of this formerly-simple pool will be just one aspect of Trump’s legacy as a malignant clown.

Resistance3

It feels good to read the truth. Please keep it up.

SavRTruthTiger 💙🌊🌊🌊💙2

The pool is in such a state, a police state. Reflecting Trump’s regime. The Reflecting Pool is doing its job. Reflecting. It stinks now, too.

Doremus J2

This ass in the WH imagines all these enemies. Hummm maybe it’s true. 😎 he deserves lots of enemies. Ordinary Americans just trying to afford this life that he single handedly made more expensive than ever.

J.C. Wilder9

Found him! He said the sh!tter was full.

Armand Velazco4

I hope Trump sees this and loses sleep over it.

Felix Buzzard3

How about arresting the guy who has his hand on the Epstein files?

Muugin4

Infinite money and they will only call the one pool guy they know from FL... at best its a bandaid and at the worst it leaks into the ground water.

Matt Driscoll 🐕🐸🚫👑4

No chems with this setup......That is an ozone machine. It needs a generator to run it.

Clio24

Betting on hydrogen chloride (muriatic acid), which is often used on concrete. But will eat away the pool's limestone bottom. :-/

Susan loves democracy3

Does the chemicals contain small knives that cut up the liner?

@bdetwiler.bsky.social2

He’s got endless purse strings since it isn’t his money!

Duchess Van Hoof2

Any risk that they'll mix chlorine with bleach through sheer ineptitude?

Laura Shearin8

I cant answer for incidents in other parks, but the Grand Canyon has been posting heat warnings for weeks. The news of the deaths came out fast, at least locally. And the rangers have been using social media to promote safe hiking practices (including the obvious: “don’t hike in the heat!”).

Doug S4

My heart goes out to the families of those folks. And, if I’m elderly, I’m not going hiking in 100deg temperatures, regardless of whether I’ve been notified by NPS. If it were wild animal attacks, I’d get the criticism and conspiracy theorizing. But not using some common sense? I just don’t.

Mad Bastard5

Oh, and had his motorcade drive on the pool liner before it dried.

Debra Lee3

If a woman president spent even five minutes on decorating and building monuments to themselves in DC she would be crucified.

Kelly Miller2

And his claim about vandals being responsible is laugh-in-his -face ridiculous but that's going to result in Trump giving even more money to his buddies' companies to fix their own shitty work.

cheesed buger2

gonna read this then finally add Reflecting Pool to the ol word filter 🫡

Maggie From The Commonwealth (God save it!)6

“Trump’s … slapping his name on other people’s accomplishments and trying to claim credit.” This is exactly why all Never Trumpers hate him. For nearly 70 years, the GOP has worked a long game for complete control of the U.S., manipulating ignorance & hate for the sake of power. Never Trumpers

MMMurray5

I’m still hunting the vandals that try to fill my swimming pool with algae every summer. Good luck to those MAGAs.

A Rebour head4

When you sanctify people's resentment, bigotry and itching inferiority complexes as "Patriotic" and feed them the red meat of victimhood, they will do things like die from COVID to perform fealty to the Leader who freed them from having to pretend to be decent, humane citizens.

Dave4

“Of course they will delude themselves into believing “vandals” broke the pool Trump obviously messed up. The alternative is to look at their own reflections — and they wouldn’t like what they would see.” Couldn’t be more spot on!

kentropic3

Performative public belief in the lies - no matter how transparent or ridiculous - is an important fascist bonding ritual, signaling both membership in & allegiance to the cult. It’s a collective power play & assertion that reality is whatever the leader says it is, regardless of facts & evidence.

Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop3

Absurd theatre. Megalomaniac does not like pool. He gives contract to buddy with no expertise. He ignores scientific advise on dark floors and standing water Buddy buys cheap stuff and does shoddy work (and gives kickbacks?) Pool becomes soup and floor detaches. Leader blames others.

Mity Cheese2

This is related to press reporting on what politician X "believes" when it's what a lobbyist paid them to say or another politician told them to say if they wanted to keep their job. You'll never convince me that Ted Cruz "believes" climate change is a hoax, it's just convenient for him to say.

Well written. Trump IS the mirror to the MAGA narcissist. So they have to delude themselves into believing the beauty they see in that mirror.

Bill Wilkinson2

Just a reminder that he told Macron that you have to put your name on things so they'll remember you in a visit to Mount Vernon during the first abomination

TheRoadie.2

We're going to see the evidence "when the time is right". Man, there is a lot of evidence just waiting for the right time to appear. It's only been 6 years since the 2020 election. 🙄

They Call Me Gary7

It's not a climate change issue. It's an Incompetence and Phosphates issue. Much warmer here in California and I manage my pool algae and water balance just fine. Being warmer can add to the Incompetence issue.

News & Politics6

An expert problem. He hired mob adjacent "pool guy" when he should have hired 'farm pond guy'.

☆ Jeff ☆4

But Jack, the reflecting pool reflected just fine for 8 years under Obama and another 4 under Biden. How come it suddenly is growing algae at rates never seen before in all of history?

Every Corner2

I understand copper helps tame algae and is one reason so many fountains have pennies. That would be a fun event letting all tourist add a penny. Some will go for a dip but just add more. Pennies are not much good in commerce anymore. I know Trump is too selfish for this act of togetherness.

Jonathan2

well, it's not really a climate change problem, since he manually created the changed climate with dark blue paint .....

Bill Fouché2

The “real cause” is that Trump combines three traits that are noxious in combination: 1) He knows very little about any damn thing, yet 2) Is supremely confident in his own knee-jerk opiniom, and 3) Is reckless in the extreme, unwilling to listen to actual experts who know things.

HazeDZ2

Definitely not all money laundering schemes

DuckInAPond4

I think it comes down to the pool being a real, tangible iconic thing being destroyed somehow being more palatable than crazy Hawaiian cult controls Senator turned Intelligence leader and holy crap that feels bonkers to type out