President Donald Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism.

Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired.

Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he’d line it with “American flag blue” so it better reflected the Washington Monument. But after the new pool was unveiled, its blue tinge quickly became a familiar green. Workers treated it with chemicals to kill the algae, but then the painted blue lining on the bottom began to peel.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    15·
    6 days ago

    It wasn’t a mistake, it was a kickback scheme. You steer a contract toward a trusted buddy, who does a shit job using shit materials, and they split the profit, especially the overruns, which are 100% profit.

    Now you have to intimidate anyone who is considering investigating it.

    This sort of scheme has been his Bread & Butter for his entire [criminal] “career.”

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Right, but Trump can’t even do the absolute simplest form of corruption right. The intersection of his incompetence and narcissism means he can’t even paint a pool without making it into a fiasco. It’s seems stupid but it just shows how his entire situation is unraveling. Good con men understand the value of subtlety, and do not tolerate incompetence. Trump is so fucking stupid that he can’t even grift properly as the most powerful man in the world.