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The work was done by Atlantic Industrial Coatings from New Canton Virginia. Their website: https://vaspray.com/aic/
According to their website they have experience with liners, but there's no mention of using paint. My guess is that they placed an expensive liner in a pool on one of Trump's properties, but Trump doesn't want to pay that bill, so to compensate them, AIC got to do this cheap ass botch job for an inflated price for the us government.
With paint instead of a liner, they will have had to waterproof all the joints between the slabs as best as they could. That waterproofing will have become damaged when Trump's motorcade drove over it.
I don't think they have any experience I'm not even sure they have workers, no experience with that company, but the general scam is to get a dude with a contractor license to be the face and "subcontract" down to a bunch of people desperate enough to ignore the fact basically every labor law is being violated along with some other ones. I can guarantee anything removed during the construction of any of this is not going to be disposed of properly, it's just going to go where it's some one else's problem.
I do believe that it used to be a real company with a few real employees, they show a few old projects on their website and those seem well executed. Their old specialization seems to be small scale renovations on culverts and small industrial basins with lots of nooks and crannies. They did the kind of jobs that their bigger competitors would rather not do. Which is probably also how they ended up renovating Trump's pool: the actual pool companies didn't want the headache of working for Trump org.
But then this massive paint job is like you described it. Too big for the company, done with loads of temp guys, with materials that they have no experience with ... anything goes.