This is getting incredibly pathetic. Trump now says he may have to drain the Reflecting Pool after his botched “renovations” quickly left it infested with algae. Instead of taking responsibility, he’s blaming vandalism—not his own shoddy work or the science experts warned about from the start.
Let’s go over this, slowly.
One person has been arrested for allegedly touching a piece of paint that had already dislodged. He denies the charge. Another man was cited (but not arrested) for putting his hand in the water.
That’s it.
Trump claims someone carved a 250 foot gash “in the beautiful facade.” The what? In context, he mentions “the earlier killing of a large amount of grass.” Grass he formerly dubbed the “Trump Promenade.” But what facade does the reflecting pool have?
These alleged vandals also poured “corrosive and destructive chemicals” in the pool.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the damage started to appear after the peroxide was dumped in. Causation, or correlation? Probably the latter, but then, we still don’t know what went wrong, do we? At least, what went wrong is obvious, but no cause has been publicized. Maybe it was enough peroxide to do the damage; maybe the damage was done by a botched installation. No way to tell, yet.
And the $64,000 question: why the FUCK is the president of the United States worrying about the state of the reflecting pool, and meeting with contractors on how to fix it? And are these new contractors? Because it doesn’t appear the old ones knew what they were doing.
It’s a bit unfair, but there is clear evidence the contractor had no experience, and didn’t know what they were doing (and the Parks Department has said the “nanobubbler technology that is supposed to keep algae out of the pool still has not been installed). Occam’s Razor says Antifa and Radical Left Democrats weren’t trying to embarrass Trump. He did that all by himself.
A) a no-bid contract granted to a company owned by a MAL neighbor, member, and Trump donor;
(That would be this ☝️ guy, seen here at MAL.)
B) granted without vetting or competition; and
C) a rushed process to finish the job and fill the pool, before the technology to keep the algae at bay could be installed;
D) algae that appeared, quite predictably, a week after the pool was refilled.
The only mystery here is why Trump hasn’t blamed the contractor. But then he can’t do that, can he?
But why isn’t the POTUS more concerned with the status of the Strait of Hormuz? Nobody seems to be quite sure if it’s open, or closed. The Parks Department can deal with the pool.
It’s the President’s job to deal with the consequences of a war he, and he alone in this country, started.
In the meantime, can we find the guy responsible for this?
