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[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 7 points 5 hours ago

Obama had work done on it. This is why diddlin Donnie is doing this.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Just like the Joker raiding the Gotham Museum.

https://youtu.be/ZGFbd-zF_Cg?t=74

[–] the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

As a none American(thank god), what am I looking at?

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

This is the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. You may have seen it in movies like Forrest Gump.
Trump decided to paint it blue like a swimming pool and the job looks to be going bad.
Trump personally chose the color, contractors without asking anyone really or going through the proper channels like getting approval from congress and input from the public.
In the years to come, the blue pool will mark the time during which Trump was the president of the USA. Its visitors will look down upon their reflection and see blue, as if to say they were the ones who elected him.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Maybe a little too on the nose:

3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.

4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

Revelation 16:3

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago

6.9m transferred to the company that does the same work at Mar-a-largo. Not sus at all...

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 10 hours ago

That's a memorial (I don't remember for what or whom) and they decided to paint it blue as if it was a swimming pool

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago
[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 44 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

“Trump said he made the pool a priority after an unnamed friend of his visiting from Germany called it "filthy, disgusting … not representative of the country."

Sounds pretty representative to me.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

To be truly representitive you need some struggling sick peasants chained to the floor trying to keep their heads above water.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 32 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

"Friend from Germany" has big "I got a girlfriend in Canada" energy.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 9 points 5 hours ago

I dunno, I could see Höcke (who we are legally allowed to call an actual Nazi) wanting to get really close with Trump, Thiel and co.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 13 hours ago

Sounds more like a handler to me

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Why are they so bad at this? This isn't rocket science...

A child could do this.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

When all you know is grifting, you can't just suddenly pivot to actually bidding out and completing large and expensive projects.

It goes entirely against his nature. This is literally all he knows. I actually do not think he would even know where to start to actually build something lasting and worthwhile.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

A child is doing this. A child surrounded by people who all kick his commands down the ladder, each person down the rung knowing even less how to do their job right than the Orange Twitler at the top. So by the time it gets to the last person who sends it it’s just: use some leftover blue paint they found in some warehouse from the 1980s and pay some trump crony contractor a crapload of money to hire another contractor who will be lucky to be paid to do the shitty painting job.

[–] f314@lemmy.world 97 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

Is it Zima blue?

Jokes aside, this says so much about the way Trump sees the world. It’s a pool, so it must look like a swimming pool because that’s all he knows.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 hours ago

It would also explain why he thinks of the Las Vegas Strip when he hears about the Gaza Strip.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 10 points 11 hours ago

Upvote for the Wild Love Death and Robots reference.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 24 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Not trying to defend Trump but I don't think that's necessarily what's going on.

Someone linked an article. The thing has cost heaps of money to maintain over the last hundred years. It leaks so bad it costs $1m a year just to keep it topped up with water.

The article says it's the marshy soil, which makes sense. The whole thing has sunk quite a bit - article says 12 inches which seems absurd. Different areas would decompose at different rates so the joints would open up all the time.

Sounds like they decided to "fix" it with a spray on pool liner stuff, which of course is blue because swimming pools are blue.

1 million a year topping it off isn't even that much, relatively. We probably spend more than that in a month on the military.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

My guess would be that fixing it would be a massive undertaking, that would cost money and require a competent and qualified contractor, and that's just not something Trump knows how to do.

In these kinds of situations, all he knows how to do is grift and enrich himself, and that means really shoddy work (if there's any work at all).

[–] f314@lemmy.world 37 points 19 hours ago

Oh, it definitely seems like it is in need of repairs. But the article also says the contractor talked Trump out of a “Bahamas turquoise” color for the liner, so I feel like this is at least a little bit of both 😅

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 30 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

JFC, the most ghetto person in the entire country is the fucking president.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 8 points 11 hours ago

I'm laughing because I grew up in the ghetto and I saw plenty houses painted in both this color and a few in this manner. My mom would always say "free paint!"

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 71 points 20 hours ago (14 children)

I have no idea what I'm looking at.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 98 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Reflecting pool between Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in Washington D.C. in the gal'dang U S of A.

Last month it was drained to be painted with a blue swimming pool liner.

Because that's what you do when you're losing another war in Asia.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 35 points 20 hours ago

Ah! Now I see it!

I was stuck trying to figure out why someone would paint a car park blue.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago

The Queen she likes 'em red

If she saw white instead

She'd raise a fuss

And each of us

Would quickly lose his head

Goodness!

Since this is the part we dread

We're painting the roses red

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You think his "pool guy" is shitting bricks right now with the entire nation calling his work shit? Or you think hes just as DGAF as Drumpf?

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He got 7 million to do this job. He'll probably do a half ass job and spend half (if that) to do the actual work.

In 2 months people will forget about this and that dude can basically retire.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Approved. I would rather the money go to you rather than ICE or bombs for Israel... which seems like the only things congress is funding lately.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

You have to start first though, and never get paid.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
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