What a bunch of incompetent idiots.
Can we please get hundreds of people down there to continuously shout “HUUUURRRRRR DUUUURRRRRRRR” until the project is finished?
they gotta keep his fuckheaded motorcade from driving through it again too
What a waste of water when all that water could have been wasted by an AI data center.
Joe Brandon shit in my pants, drain my pants!
It’s going to end up in the same river it was originally removed from. They haven’t used city water to fill it for a while now.
This water is now full of chemicals, toxic algae and disintegrating epoxy though? They wouldn’t just put this into a public river, wait until the EPA hears about this!!!
No chemicals, the peroxide they dumped in as already broken down into water and oxygen. Up until recently there was lots of raw sewage being dumped into the Potomac. Didn’t the epa already get dismantled?
Ohio-based Green Water Solutions, also known as Greenwater Services, was given a $1.7 million contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool
Well no wonder the water ended up green!
Are the writers even fucking trying anymore? Lazy writing.
Removed by mod
Ah that’s what he ment by draining the swamp
They have drained it at least twice, but he is still potus.
I honestly struggle to understand how a pool that has been clean for decades suddenly can’t be kept clean.
To be fair to the regime (there’s something I never thought I’d type) the reflecting pool had been kept clean in the past by paying people (National Park Service workers) to wade out into it and clean it on the regular. Then the DOGE crew laid off a ton of Park Service personnel. Then our dear leader began howling about the green water.
This timeline may imply some details that I’ve got wrong, but it’s hard to be sympathetic to the regime, given the general picture of its priorities it paints, which I believe is generally correct.
I mean, I honestly don’t like Trump. That said, the pool was originally drinking water, and an Obama era revamp switched it to filtered tidal water. The water that fills it now has way more organic molecules, even with the filtering, leading to algae blooms. The blooms can’t really be treated with standard algaecide due to its effect on wild life.
Trump made the situation worse by painting the bottom of the pool. But the reason is was good for decades prior was due to being drinking water, which has far less capability to host life.
Many pools filled with potable (drinking) water grow algae if the chemicals are out of balance. Blaming the water source may seem like the easiest answer, but there are a lot of factors to consider. Here’s a reputable pool website discussing pools with algae problems and how to treat them.
Thanks for the link, but I actually do understand how pools and algae growth functions. I’m a biochemist (or, at least I was), and have been taking care of pools off and on most of my life.
It would be a fuck ton more difficult to manage a pool with tidal water as a source compared to potable water. Its not the only reason the pool has grown more algae, and its still ultimately due to mismanagement during the Trump administration (i.e. not monitoring/managing the algae level and water source). However, ignoring how the switch to tidal water effected the number and frequency of algae blooms is disingenuous.
Are we doing a “blame the right for everything and not attempt to be honest” thing because that is their go-to? I mean, I’m down I guess at this point, but can I get a wink or something when we are doing it?
Anyway, here is an article discussing it: https://cen.acs.org/environment/water/why-the-reflecting-pool-turns-green/104/web/2026/06
Personally, I don’t think it should have ever been on drinking water. Moving it off of it was the right move.
I mean, I agree. The changes during the PBA administration made sense and were better for the environment and Washington DC people.
Allegedly
Which part is allegedly?
A reminder that more people have been arrested over this than over the Epstein Files.
Maybe those arrested should have just been millionaires and they wouldn’t have had that issue.
What comes next after Swamp Green? Maybe they’ll do Diaper Brown?
It could turn as red as the Nile and the implication would be lost on them.
Followed by frogs, gnats, flies, livestock(screw worm’s here), boils, hail, locust, 3 days of darkness, and death of the first born.
God’s own hand and voice could decree their deeds to be upon their own shoulders and they would deny it still.
They’ve already used Diaper Brown for this fountain: https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/restored-cascading-fountain-in-meridian-hill-park-is-seen-with-brown-water-in-washington-dc/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX1JDMlA5TUEzRU1BQQ
The grift is strong with this one. Drain and refill the swamp, robbing the treasury to do it.
And exactly what will this same company that fucked it up the first time do differently this time?
Charge even more money, of course.
This time we’ll spend taxpayer dollars on 24/7 armed guards. Guarantees everyone has something to reflect on when they’re, ya know, reflecting.
I hope the next guy in office forces the trump crime family to reimburse the government coffers for every taxpayer dollar he’s spent on corrupt dealings
There will probably be even more digits on the invoice, I suspect. So that part will be different.
Fill drain, fill drain, fill drain! You have no idea the physical toll that three renovations have on a pool!
Snip snap snip!
I understood this office reference and appreciated it greatly!!!
If I were on that crew, I’d be afraid I would be next on the list to be thrown under the bus. It wouldn’t take much for one of them to be arrested as an Antifa terrorist saboteur when it inevitably goes to shit again.
“troubled revamp” is such a nice way of putting it
Imperial media playing its role.
