He's only interested in his monuments like the ballroom and arch.

Can't put my hand on the article, but someone with the firm said they hadn't done work at the club -- sounded like another crony was like "I gotta guy" and trump touted knowing them when he didn't

More grift?

I poked around. The confusion is that there were two companies involved. Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the people who actually did the botched coating, never worked on anything in Mat-a-lago. Apparently, there were statements from the felon that they did. I'm guessing the psycho is, at best, confused about who actually did the work, or more likely was just lying about a prior relationship. But it was Atlantic that got the no bid contract exceeding $14.7 million to repaint and waterproof

His buddy and big donor -- the palm beach connection -- is the nano-bubbler company, Greenwater.

"Soitantly."

Nobody vandalized it--it was bungled by an incompetent contractor, and president for choosing him. Now, he's going to have the same idiot do it again, no doubt for twice our tax money. The same thing will happen, and trump will just keep paying to redo it out of National Park funding.

But he's a worshipper of the almighty orange dotard so instead, he doubles his profit from the taxpayers

The trials for the vandals should be interesting, I wonder if the government will allow the defense to hire its own witnesses to study the damage.

Get a team of experts engineers etc and coke up with one long term plan.
Trump doesn’t want to rebid it out because he’d think people would think he’d been wrong.

Cohn taught him well

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/19/roy-cohn-donald-trump-documentary-228144

While everyone joked and made fun, only a few were able to surmise this fiasco was intentional. They’re saying: game over and the People lost.

properly to allow a coating to adhere. I don't see how they could possibly have drained it, cleaned it, let it dry completely, prepared it to take a primer, primed it, allowed it to dry and put the top coating on and allowed that to dry thoroughly. They rushed a job to fit into the king's 250th schedule and it flopped.

The process which you mentioned is in essence correct. There are a couple of minor things. If the primer was moisture tolerant then waiting for the substrate to be dry would not be necessary. No water should be standing on the surface but there can be water in the substrate prior to the lining application. The second thing is the use of a hybrid polyurea/urethane as the liner. These materials set quickly and generally exhibit fast return to service.

Why else would the coating suddenly lift and start breaking into chunks and floating to the surface?

Also, if the material was off ratio it would cause issues.

Offal in the Oval driving on the surface didn’t help.

The entire project was, imo, rushed. Was there actually a specification? Was the specification followed? Was there third party inspection?

Degrades in sunlight.

Little pores ideal for algae growth.

Problematic expansion joints.

Not to mention the dark color adding heat, giving algae a boost?

Yup, aromatic systems are not UV stable. Color change and degradation over time are caused by that.

Any coating/lining can have pinholes. One thing that I recommend be done for immersion service like this is holiday testing. That allows repairs to be made to the lining as needed.

I agree regarding the dark color that is might cause more growth. Iirc, the color previously was black but I could be mistaken.

I'm not sure how dark or what solar reflective properties the concrete had, but there seems to be consensus that the dark lining absorbs more heat and raises the water temp.

Lardass had his motorcade, including the 10 ton "Beast" drive over the uncured surface so Lardass could "inspect" the work.

Why would anyone expect them to do it right for a change?

So small it's undetectable!!

They really think they'll be able to pull off this absurd lie???

Minimizing because he knows it's bullshit. Maximizing because anything less would put him in the felon's sights.

Being a corrupt weasel is a tough job.

Before they painted the concrete slabs Tidy-bowl blue you couldn't see it because slabs and trench were concrete colored. Now it's obvious especially on aerial view.

They don't state it, but it seemed pretty clear that these "cuts" were incidental and probably happened as part of the renovation.

And perhaps weren't "cuts" at all. I understand that settling of concrete slabs, movement, and expansion joint failures and leakage has been a problem all along. Doesn't strike me that a coating could solve that.

Hell, the thing was installed on marshland and reclaimed tidal mud flats. The ground beneath it is unstable silt, which has caused the pool to continuously sink and leak since it was completed in the 1920s

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/reflecting-pool-national-park-service

as it is to be better.

If he makes Lincoln look bad, fine..

as long as he looks better.

Ummm??

The Capitol...

The East Wing.....

Never mind. I can't take this shit anymore - never any pushback.

Trumpf is the only felon causing damage.

for vandalism.