Which event do you think had more US criminal charges?
A huge network of child and sexual trafficking called the Epstein files... or people that touched the reflecting pool as it was falling apart?
The answer is sad...
The answer is sad...
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ElwoodBlues · M
Turns out driving a 15,000+ lb heavily armored SUV across the concrete bottom of a pool is a bad idea! Especially when the pool bottom is a collection of separate concrete panels on top of a marshy subsoil.
TRANSCRIPT: President Trump Records Vlog Titled, "Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool," 4.23.26
... And I said, no, there's a better way of doing it. I said, what we're going to do is I'm going to call all three of these people that have worked for me in the past, doing swimming pools.
That's all they can do, is a swimming pool. And I said, give me a good price. We can do it for maybe a $1.5 million to $2 million, as opposed to $300 million. We scrubbed the surface of the existing granite that's been there since 1922. We then grouted all of the granite, fixed it up, took about two weeks, and now we have a nice, clean surface on which we're putting an industrial-grade swimming pool topping.
And they said, what color would you like, sir? It's called American Flag Blue. I said, that's the color I want. I want American flag blue. It'll last for 40 or 50 years. There'll be no leaks. There'll be no anything. It'll look gorgeous, beautiful. So it's a story on business. And here's the difference, because somebody said, well, sir, but, one, wouldn't it be a better job?
I said, no, no, this is a much better job for much less money. It will look far more beautiful, more beautiful than it did in 1922 when they built it, much more beautiful. So we build it in much less time for much less money, but I don't mean much less. I mean numbers that nobody can even believe. So it's $1.5 million versus $300 million. It's two weeks versus more than three years. And that's just the way it is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
TRANSCRIPT: President Trump Records Vlog Titled, "Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool," 4.23.26
... And I said, no, there's a better way of doing it. I said, what we're going to do is I'm going to call all three of these people that have worked for me in the past, doing swimming pools.
That's all they can do, is a swimming pool. And I said, give me a good price. We can do it for maybe a $1.5 million to $2 million, as opposed to $300 million. We scrubbed the surface of the existing granite that's been there since 1922. We then grouted all of the granite, fixed it up, took about two weeks, and now we have a nice, clean surface on which we're putting an industrial-grade swimming pool topping.
And they said, what color would you like, sir? It's called American Flag Blue. I said, that's the color I want. I want American flag blue. It'll last for 40 or 50 years. There'll be no leaks. There'll be no anything. It'll look gorgeous, beautiful. So it's a story on business. And here's the difference, because somebody said, well, sir, but, one, wouldn't it be a better job?
I said, no, no, this is a much better job for much less money. It will look far more beautiful, more beautiful than it did in 1922 when they built it, much more beautiful. So we build it in much less time for much less money, but I don't mean much less. I mean numbers that nobody can even believe. So it's $1.5 million versus $300 million. It's two weeks versus more than three years. And that's just the way it is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.