The paint is now peeling at Trump's $14 million reflecting pool "renovation"
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Matt Dillon
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A shithead cut some of the liner and is now arrested, Dickweedio.
View: https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2068061982599553225?s=20
Twitter/X is not a reliable news sourceA shithead cut some of the liner and is now arrested, Dickweedio.
View: https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2068061982599553225?s=20
QP!
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There is a ton of video about this. The paint liner that was used has been floating to the surface in sheets as it pulls away from the wall and floor where it was painted on. People are filming it floating to the top of the water and peaking out and calling it the lochness monster and some are cutting or tearing souvenir pieces from it. But there is no sabotage going on. Trump did the sabotage in his grifting hiring and massive over payment using taxpayer funds of the unqualified no bid contract people he hired.A shithead cut some of the liner and is now arrested, Dickweedio.
View: https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2068061982599553225?s=20
The damage is done before people grab their souvenirs.
Gabe Sanchez
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I spoke with Curtis Wood, owner of Atlantic Industrial Coatings, LLC, the company that received the no-bid contract to “fix” the Reflecting Pool. Here’s what he told me on our call:- The Trump administration had already chosen the Rhino polyurea coating as their solution before Wood ever came on board, and his company was on a short list of recommended vendors (only one located east of the Mississippi).- Wood says he never met Trump prior to the May 7 photo op, when Trump’s motorcade drove across the Reflecting Pool. He also couldn’t explain why Trump claimed Wood worked for him or called him his “pool guy.”- When I mentioned the “American Flag Blue” coating contributed to the record-setting algae bloom as well as the hydrogen peroxide causing the polyurea to peel off the concrete, he became noticeably defensive.
Matt Dillon
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QP!
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Right. Your cope skills are strong. You are spinning and rationalizing and telling yourself laughably stupid lies all because you know, but cannot deal with the truth that Trump was an incompetent fool, who hired and over paid incompetent fools.
Knowing this is true has sent you in to tail spins and you grasping and clinging to any lie you can to tell yourself it was not Trumps fault and he gets no blame.
Meanwhile the rest of us will enjoy how unhinged this has made you and point and laugh at you.
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Rhino polyurea coatings, such as the Rhino Extreme series, offer incredible waterproofing, flexibility, and impact resistance. While widely used for industrial containment and commercial projects (like the Washington D.C. Reflecting Pool), using it as a standalone pool liner requires specialized UV-resistant topcoats to prevent damage from constant chlorine and sunlight exposure. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Advantages for Pool Environments
Key Limitations & Risks
Common Pool Applications
Was the concrete blasted with abrasives to prepare it for the coating?
Rhino polyurea coatings, such as the Rhino Extreme series, offer incredible waterproofing, flexibility, and impact resistance. While widely used for industrial containment and commercial projects (like the Washington D.C. Reflecting Pool), using it as a standalone pool liner requires specialized UV-resistant topcoats to prevent damage from constant chlorine and sunlight exposure. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Advantages for Pool Environments
- Zero Seams: Forms a seamless, monolithic membrane that bridges gaps and prevents leaks.
- High Elasticity: Flexes with substrate movement and temperature shifts without cracking.
- Fast Return to Service: Cures tack-free in minutes, getting your pool back in action quickly. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Key Limitations & Risks
- Not Directly UV Stable: Polyurea can degrade or discolor (turn yellow) under direct sunlight, so a highly crosslinked, UV-resistant topcoat must be applied within 12 hours of the polyurea layer. [1]
- Chemical Exposure: Direct, continuous exposure to chlorine and pool chemicals can degrade raw polyurea over time without the proper topcoat. [1, 2]
- Installation Difficulty: The rapid cure time means it requires professional equipment and precise surface preparation (like abrasive blasting) to adhere correctly. [1]
Common Pool Applications
- Concrete & Gunite Pools: Used as a heavy-duty waterproof underlayment or, when top-coated, as the primary barrier to prevent leaks.
- Pool Decks: Used widely as a decorative, slip-resistant, and chemically-resistant deck coating.
- Custom/Alternative Builds: Frequently used to waterproof modified shipping container pools or fiberglass structures. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Was the concrete blasted with abrasives to prepare it for the coating?
Neither are you when it comes to contractors.
Another conspiracy arises and you gobble it up. Trump and the right lie, and you hear gospel. You should cull the craziest right-wing site from your reading list. They are making you crazy and a sad joke.
Into the Night
Contributor
What paint?Reflecting Pool Disaster Keeps Growing After $14 Million Renovation
Days after the water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green from algae, the recently applied blue paint is now peeling off the bottom of the pool.
Meanwhile, the current algae bloom in the pool is the biggest amount recorded in the month of June in at least five years, according to The Washington Post.
The president personally requested "American flag blue" paint in his $14 million renovation of the pool, which didn't go through a required bidding process and was instead awarded to a company with no federal contracting experience who is overcharging the government.
Reflecting Pool Disaster Keeps Growing After $14 Million Renovation
On top of the explosion in algae, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool is now dealing with peeling paint.www.yahoo.com
I see you like to quote propaganda.
QP!
Verified User
WRONG.
Trump was clear ""We called on swimming pool contractors we have worked with in the past to get a quote..." cite
and only changed when he found out giving friendlies a no bid contract like was illegal.
Poor Rusty, just like Matt, cannot cope with how inept Trump is so they have to lie about every aspect of what Trump did here to give themselves an alternate reality where Trump is still perfect to cling to.
Trump : ...So I actually went over, went with Secret Service and a group of people and I took a look at it. One of the people with me was Doug Burgum, our great secretary of the interior. This comes under his purview. And he said, yes, we've had a lot of problems with it. It's not working. It hasn't worked for many years and it's always filthy, dirty.
And I said, well, we're going to solve the problem. And they had bids to fix it. They were going to take the stone out, which was granite, very expensive, very thick, and replace it with stone and it was going to cost $300 million. And it was going to take maybe more than three years. 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...
And I said, well, we're going to solve the problem. And they had bids to fix it. They were going to take the stone out, which was granite, very expensive, very thick, and replace it with stone and it was going to cost $300 million. And it was going to take maybe more than three years. 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...
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I dont understand it lol. I get corruption and using a bad contractor but even the worse contractor ive worked with doesnt have the building collapse right after building it. This didnt even last 30 days. In the corporate world this wouldnt even be enough time to cut the final check.