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Botany

(78,184 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:19 PM 4 hrs ago

So they are going to drain the pool, most likely remove the paint and coating, and return it to its original state

And exactly who are the vandals that poured chemicals into the pool?
Don’t they have cameras all over the place?

And is Trump going use the same pool company that fucked it up to begin
with?

Doesn’t Trump know that Washington and Lincoln are dead so they can’t be offended
by his make believe “vandals?”

I believe the original design of the pool had it so water could slowly drain out from underneath
it and down into the ground water.


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So they are going to drain the pool, most likely remove the paint and coating, and return it to its original state (Original Post) Botany 4 hrs ago OP
I suspect they're just going to slap more Tidy-bowl blue coating on the exposed parts. Ritabert 4 hrs ago #1
"Outsmarted by a one-celled organism " Tetrachloride 4 hrs ago #2
First, they blame stagnant water in the pipes. Norrrm 4 hrs ago #3
Pool enid602 4 hrs ago #4
Yes, he is finally going to drain that swamp. LisaL 4 hrs ago #5
It was always about the no-bid contract, not about the work bucolic_frolic 4 hrs ago #6
Any change from his current new configuration is admitting fault. Norrrm 4 hrs ago #7
No, the one thing they will absolutely NOT be doing is returning it to its original state. RockRaven 4 hrs ago #8
;-{) THIS Goonch 3 hrs ago #9
And they'll refill it with a fresh batch of nutrient-rich river water, orthoclad 3 hrs ago #10
nice framing though even if it is all lies from him msongs 2 hrs ago #11
Geesh...where to start? Both monuments were nicely reflected in the pool allegorical oracle 2 hrs ago #12
Maybe he should just drain it.... kentuck 1 hr ago #13
Drain it and put a rain-canopy over it. Talitha 1 hr ago #14

Norrrm

(6,033 posts)
3. First, they blame stagnant water in the pipes.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:25 PM
4 hrs ago

First, they blame stagnant water in the pipes.
Then, they blame Biden/Obama.
Now they blame vandalism.

Always have to find new people/things to blame.

LisaL

(47,965 posts)
5. Yes, he is finally going to drain that swamp.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:28 PM
4 hrs ago

Full of green algae and peeling paint.

RockRaven

(20,030 posts)
8. No, the one thing they will absolutely NOT be doing is returning it to its original state.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:47 PM
4 hrs ago

He never admits to being wrong, no matter how badly things go.

orthoclad

(5,022 posts)
10. And they'll refill it with a fresh batch of nutrient-rich river water,
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 06:17 PM
3 hrs ago

starting the whole cycle over again.

allegorical oracle

(6,675 posts)
12. Geesh...where to start? Both monuments were nicely reflected in the pool
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:39 PM
2 hrs ago

while I lived in DC except in winter.

Obviously, the renovation did not work perfectly.

Washington and Lincoln may well have taken affront with "The Claw" that's still perched on the now-ruined WH lawn.

He now says the blue-painted portion of the pool was "slashed" with knives.

The truth is that the pool was fine before he "fixed" it -- just like the Hormuz Strait was open before he "fixed" that.

kentuck

(115,995 posts)
13. Maybe he should just drain it....
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 07:52 PM
1 hr ago

...and build another ballroom. He could put anti-aircraft weapons on top of it, to protect himself from his enemies. Then they could store all the nation's gold reserves in its basement. Then, one day, he could get in his new, lush, Qatari jet and fly off into the sunset, never to be seen or heard from again.

Talitha

(8,216 posts)
14. Drain it and put a rain-canopy over it.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 08:23 PM
1 hr ago

Then turn it into a ball pit for kids to play in.

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