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This will go to the SC no doubt.
But MY hope is ==at least, if Nothing else, the non reflective pool as it stands right now--
will NOT be done for Trumps Birthday party!!==recall that trump is making the USA 250th birthday HIS birthday.
BREAKING: HELL YES! Trump gets hit with a massive lawsuit over his hideous "renovations" to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
This is what he cares most about in the entire world...
A blue-tinted basin is more appropriate to a resort or theme park, stated Charles A. Birnbaum, head of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, which is bringing the suit.
The Reflecting Pool should not be viewed in isolation; it is part of the larger ensemble of designed landscapes that comprise the National Mall," said Birnbaum. "The design intent, to create a reflective surface that is subordinate, is fundamental to the solemn and hallowed visual and spatial connection between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial."
Trump wants to slap an "American flag blue" coating on the iconic installation, giving it a tacky swimming pool aesthetic better suited to one of his failed Atlantic City casinos than a national monument. For a man obsessed with buildings and renovations, it's genuinely remarkable that he's never managed to cultivate so much as an ounce of good taste.
The suit, which has been filed in federal district court in D.C., seeks an emergency intervention to stop Trump's destructive project. It argues that under the National Historic Preservation Act, Trump was required to conduct proper consultations before making any changes. Similarly, the renovations violate the National Environmental Policy Act.
The best part of this lawsuit is how it's guaranteed to enrage Trump. As his illegal Iran War drags on pointlessly and the American economy is reduced to ashes, he has become more and more fixated on his White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool renovations. Faced with the total collapse of his presidency, he's retreating into vanity projects. Now is the time to strip those away from him too!
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hlthe2b
(114,535 posts)Did the American people (largely) not see that video or photos? How can they not be as enraged as I am. To drive over the mall and the sacred reflecting pool like that. I know he is beyond caring, but wtf? Who was with him? Someone must have thought that beyond inappropriate. Damn!
he has to desecrate the site of one of Martin Luther King's finest life's moments.
And yes he's that petty.
allegorical oracle
(6,534 posts)over the years. That has added to its sometimes "untidy" appearance.
Regardless, the basis of a reflecting pool is that it is dark enough underneath that light doesn't reflect from the bottom of the pool, but instead reflects whatever is seen in light from above. As any swimming pool owner can attest, bright colored sides and bottom cause myriad ripples of light reflections and does not then reflect what is outside of the pool.
Trump turned it into a swimming pool. People will treat it as thus. The blue coloring is too bright.
canetoad
(20,961 posts)And charge entry for a swim.
chouchou
(3,276 posts)wnylib
(26,397 posts)Totally Tunsie
(11,988 posts)complete with cocktail waiters and sunscreen vendors - products manufactured and supplied by trump Industries, of course.
Goonch
(5,527 posts)
Bettie
(19,841 posts)a couple of years ago (Biden's term) were of the Reflecting pool taken at night from the Lincoln Memorial.
We were so glad we went when we did.
Gaugamela
(3,572 posts)and cleaned annually. The blue paint will only highlight this organic material and make it look awful. And even when its clean it just looks crassly commercial.
BurnDoubt
(1,871 posts)Its not just for Covid 19 anymore!!!!
(Please, please realize this is sarcasm!)
AZ8theist
(7,597 posts)Whip-poor-will
(477 posts)All his taste is in his mouth , the one with the Mc donald's palate
Moostache
(11,265 posts)The book is by Joe Abercrombie, "Best Served Cold" a "grim-dark fantasy" novel of revenge (similar to "Game of Thrones" in tone and material, though not as much magic or dragons)...
Trump is a rotting pile of shit in badly fitting suits with a shorter and shorter horizon on his imminent demise . I cannot wait for the blessed news to ring out across the globe - Ding dong the dick is dead, which old dick? The Wicked Dick!
calimary
(90,649 posts)In the end, we all turn to shit...but we don't have to be shitty people while we live.
Totally!
littlemissmartypants
(34,250 posts)Reflection is so much broader than the concept of images and light sources.
It's a concept so foreign to him and his extended cadre of psychopaths that they will never have the capacity to even entertain the notion. Ever.
1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
GiqueCee
(4,656 posts)... checks every one of those boxes!
And how the actual fuck does he get to make this decision unilaterally?
Oh. Right. The most corrupt Supreme Court majority in American history gave him the inalienable right to destroy the country from within, and plaster his obscene name all over everything in sight.
lonely bird
(3,013 posts)If the lining is UV stable. I would wager that they are using a polyurea. If it isnt several things can happen which would likely result in the reflecting pool not looking like His Idiocy would want. One thing is color change.
FakeNoose
(42,273 posts)Asking for a million friends ...
Rob H.
(5,898 posts)once The Count of Mostly Crisco is out of office. No doubt it'll be expensive to undo all the eyesores he's leaving in his wake, too.
Emile
(43,153 posts)he did to the White House. Surprised Susan Collins is not screaming about that.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/02/23/susan-collins-called-the-cops-because-of-sidewalk-chalk-the-woman-behind-it-is-running-for-us-senate/