The paint is now peeling off the reflecting pool

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Guess dumping in all the hydrogen peroxide, AKA paint stripper, was a bad idea.

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During multiple press conferences, Pres Trump boasted about how great the pools were at his hotels. That he knew how to make a pool great again.

Yet he didn't even have the foresight to clean the remaining algae out of the pipes of the Reflecting Pool.

It is looking like just another of Pres Trump's "make it look pretty but ignore underlying problems" approaches.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-18 02:32 PM | Reply

BWAHAHA. What a fucking clown show

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-18 02:35 PM | Reply

His building skills are right up there with his dealmaking skills.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-18 02:53 PM | Reply

Another view ...

Blue paint peels off Reflecting Pool in viral clip days after Trump's $14M 'upgrade'
www.aol.com

... The blue paint President Donald Trump applied to the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., as part of a $14 million upgrade to the monument, is peeling, a new viral video shows, days after it was applied.

The video also shows the extent of the algae that has grown in the pool since it was filled with water after the renovations were completed. Crews with the National Park Service have spent the last few days dredging the pool and filling it with chemicals to kill the growth.

A massive chunk of blue paint can be seen floating to the surface of the pool, ripped from the bottom. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-18 02:53 PM | Reply

Hydrogen peroxide peels paint

the pool contains 6.5 million gallons of water

to treat that volume of water for algae you need between 6500 and 19,000 gallons of hydrogen peroxide depending on the strength

however, the stronger the hydrogen peroxide mix the more paint stripping will occur

Remember this was a no bid contract

#5 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-06-18 04:14 PM | Reply

To actually strip paint you'd need 650,000 gallons of peroxide. That's a lot of white jugs.

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-18 04:53 PM | Reply

and it's not paint, it's a surface finish.. which means they didn't do the surface prep right to begin with. No bid contract indeed.

#7 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-18 04:57 PM | Reply

No bid contract indeed.

Well, it was probably a few million dollar job they paid 5-7 times the actual worth that had corners cut to boot.

It's just another money grab. This entire administration is nothing but a giant heist.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-18 05:41 PM | Reply