President Trump previously vowed to paint the Reflecting Pool an ‘American flag blue’

Blaming Obama for his failed 16+ million dollar attempt at entering the algae-based bio fuel industry.

How sad.

  • TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    7 days ago

    This is fucking trump in a nutshell. Cares about appearances and looks while everyone in the country can’t afford rent and food.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    I’m not a chemist or even a pool guy… but isn’t algae automatic with any long-standing pool of water that isn’t chlorinated? What did they expect? Why are they even angry?

    • ThePuy@feddit.nl
      4·
      7 days ago

      I’m no expert, but I think they were supposed to coat the base of the pool with something and apparently it was a shit job and that’s why the algae

  • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    On the occasion of Iran’s victory US has decided to make the pool green as per Iran’s flag red white and green.

  • knife@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 days ago

    this is one of the stories I see posted about the most on lemmy. it’s funny because if a democrat were president and fox news was the one constantly updating everyone about it we would all be making fun of fox news. in my opinion this isn’t really newsworthy and definitely doesn’t deserve the amount of attention everyone is giving it.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      1·
      6 days ago

      The reason it should be getting attention is that this was obviously another real estate kickback scheme, which is Trump’s bread & butter.

      You hand-pick a “friendly” and “experienced” contractor (one you can trust to go along with the scheme), give him a huge contract, he does the work with half the budget, and gives the other half to the guy that gave him the contract. And of course, you can always count on cost overruns to pad it. It’s a Classic!

      Why do you think Trump is doing all these renovations and construction? The Ballroom, the Arc De Trump, The Claw, the Kennedy Center (they stopped that one), etc.? It’s all about generating construction vehicles for kickbacks.

      They don’t even care if the final product is any good, because the objective is to steal as much money as possible, not have a decent construction outcome. Take the Reflecting Pool: The algae is getting all the attention, but that’s just hiding the real story, which is that only a few weeks after being finished, the paint is already peeling off in huge sheets. The entire project, $14 million worth, is already squandered. It didn’t even last a month. The construction took longer.

      But a quality outcome was never the objective.

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
      58·
      8 days ago

      I doubt it was this, but I hope Obama left one minor prank on his way out, like a whoopie cushion, or an upside down desk drawer.

      Obama leaves a letter on the desk for Trump’s first day. It reads:

      "Mr. President,

      On this, your first day in office, congratulations again on your victory. Although it’s clear to us both by now that we may never see eye-to-eye on many important issues, I want to express my hope for your success in this new position. Very few people will ever understand the challenges endured while carrying the weight of a nation, if not the entire free world, on one’s shoulders like we do. Along those lines, I humbly offer you my full support, putting aside whatever differences we might have, in the interest of serving our shared and highest value, the well-being and advancement of this great country. Should you ever want it, I am prepared and willing to give whatever assistance possible with utmost diligence and discretion.

      We’re all counting on you. Good luck!

      Sincerely,

      Barack Obama

      P. S. I left a little something in the upper right-hand drawer just to show there’s no hard feelings."

      After reading it, Trump opens the drawer and hundreds of marbles spill out along with a note card.

      I think this why he’s so mad at Obama.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    118·
    8 days ago

    Do these people not understand that algae tends to grow in water unless the water is treated? For most previous administrations, this would be a rhetorical question, but in this case I’m honestly not sure.

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      Yould probably need a good developer to understand technical stuff like that! A good developer with great contractors, with whom the developer has a great working relationship!

    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
      192·
      8 days ago

      It also happened in 2012 when the 2 year renovation was completed by Obama and it was pretty bad. I did check to make sure that was true but anyways the algae isn’t that abnormal of an occurrence after work was done to it.

      What is abnormal is how much focus has been placed on some algae and not the blatantly obvious grift of the taxpayer through the no bid contract that ballooned in cost. Yeah, fuck the algae and it does stem from some mismanagement - that will get cleaned up in the next week or so - but the real story is the disgusting level of corruption.

      I just can’t get over how wantonly, cartoonishly, absurd “is this even real life” levels of corruption the Trump administration has right now. I mean … Fuck … Carter gave up his peanut farm and now we’re here?

      What is happening to this nation in its 250th year is so … Only older cringe AF millennials should see this so avert your eyes if you aren’t one… >!.. So so sooooooo retarded.!<

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
      7·
      8 days ago

      Apparently it’s been a problem for a while not a constant issue but off and on and I also don’t get it. Just chlorinate the shit out of it? I don’t know why putting a pool liner would matter either way but just nuke it with pool chemicals? It’s not like people go in there or drink it or anything

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
    72·
    7 days ago

    Obama hasn’t been president for a decade. This is so stupid I feel like my brain cells are committing suicide.