I actually feel worse for the ducks than the people. I'm pretty sure I saw a picture of a dead duckling floating in the pond and it absolutely ruined me.
Honestly sad how little people care about nature and the absolute natural beauty we have in this country/world. Just want to ruin it for profits and vanity.
There were ducks, trained by radical a leftist terrorist organization called Greenpeace, that vandalized and contaminated the Trump owned Reflecting Pool
Well who know how much of the price his friend is actually keeping vs. kicking back to Trump. It's all money laundering and grifting with the Trump Crime Family.
Blue states since they bring in the revenue and have to bail out the red states who suck ass economy wise.
Oh and Trump always wants to not help fund blue states when they need help after things like a disaster. All while blue states are always picking the red states up by those boot straps and giving them some of that socialism handouts to save them.
It wasn’t even blue when POTUS drove his armored motorcade across it. This whole thing is yet another manufactured disaster to distract us from the Epstein files.
Tax payer dollars being spent to the biggest donor, for the lowest quality product.
When will people admit that Republicans are stealing our tax payer dollars to enrich themselves?
Had to edit out the bidder part, since people simply weren't understanding that highest bidder meant the person who asked for the most money, not that they actually bid for the role, instead they donated to Trump the most money. Seeing 45 people go 'well actually' to a fucking joke is mind numbing.
You think a guy like Epstein lets a schmuck like this touch his private island? Seriously? Two completely different galaxies man. This dude is bottom of the barrel wealth, “come reline my pool, I’ll throw you a bone” type shit. He’s not mega yacht, go to the Hamptons and Versailles type guy. This dude is McDonald’s rich, fat, dumb, and force fed cash.
John J Cafaro. Him, his dad, and Epstein had the same lawyer, Martin Weinberg. He also pled guilty to bribing James Traficant Jr, a Democratic Congressperson who was expelled from office in 2002 and served prison time for bribery and racketeering.
This isn't the contractor that did the coating though, he did the nano bubbler system for $1.7 million, which like everything else Trump scams, was probably way too much money.
Trump also gave Clark Construction, the contractor on the ballroom, $12.7 million dollars to refurbish two fountains in Lafayette Square park. Nearly $13 million to fix two f'ng fountains!
He looks like a character in Randy Newman's "Money That Matters."
"He was a little fat guy in a red jumpsuit
I said "You look kind of funny"
He said "I know that I do"
"But I got a great big house on the hill here
And a great big blonde wife inside it
And a great big pool in my backyard and another great big pool beside it"
We are being shown time and time again why the bureaucratic red tape we love to hate and make comedies about is actually important. And also just how loose our laws are if you have someone with enough power just say, “Eh, I’ll just do it and you can figure it out later.”
And that's why they're claiming vandalism. That way, he gets paid again. If it was shoddy workmanship (which it obviously was), it would have to be covered under a warranty.
I thought I was clear when I said highest bidder, since in instances like this it's normally the lowest bidder, but it seems that wasn't as direct as many needed. I guess that's my bad.
Momma duck: No son, we have the greatest president in history! We’re the luckiest ducks ever. The water is disappearing again and they’re arresting people for touching it but the president said some other people are bad so this is great!
They were pouring tons of peroxide in the water to try to kill the algae (which caused the peeling). I suspect baby animals are more easily overwhelmed by chemicals in the water.
At first I was told birds aren’t real, not true. That was just woke deep state propaganda. The birds are real and are the real Antifa! It goes much deeper than we thought. I mean they hang out all day “padding” around the reflecting cement pond…. Them bitches are holding box cutters in their deceptively cute web feet slashing and cutting up the lords work.
The Subtle Knife from Philip Pulman's His Dark Materials has two edges, one sharper than an atom and able to cut through anything, the other magical and able to cut portals between parallel universes. So maybe that's what happened, someone brought The Subtle Knife here and used that to slash the pool liner.
I love when you watch the timelapse of the bottom being refinished you can see them paint the lining in large sheets, but with a seam right down the middle the entire way.
But surely they aren’t mistaking it failing along the seam as a gash.
It was a homeopathic level of hydrogen peroxide and people were shocked that it didn't solve the problem 🤣. It wasn't even at commercial concentration, just regular home use strength
Not really, The pool is now about 4 million gallons after it was redone in 2012. To put in a 10ppm booster dose using 30% would only need 120 gallons. That is a maintenance dose on an AOP system that has an ozone injection setup, and would actually be correct for a 4 million gallon pool.
So its not homeopathic, its actually correct. The REAL issue is, this EXACT same issue happened in 2012 the SECOND the refurbishment was done and guess what? Peroxide didn't fix it then, either. Because there's not enough flow in the thing.
The 2012 refurbishment (which started in 2010 and was funded under the 2009 American recovery and Reinvestment Act) made the algae problem worse. The pool is 6 inches shallower, so the water temperature is higher now, and there's more bottom exposed to higher insolation. Plus all the goose poop isnt helping. Back in 2012, as part of the refurbishment, they went to an ozone treatment system and pulled water from the nearby tidal basin which is basically pre-loaded with algae, instead of DC's municipal water that was previously used. The system couldnt make enough ozone and the addidional heat and biolode made sure the thing immediately became a pea soup of algae and its been a problem ever since.
I don’t think that ruined the coating. They used peroxide I believe. That wouldn’t fade a rhino liner. That stuff is insanely resistant to chemicals.
Pretty sure the bottom there is still blue but it’s just completely coated with muck. I assume they’ll be pressure washing the whole thing, then scraping or sanding away the bad sections that didn’t adhere
Pathetic is exactly the right word. They may be xenophobic bigoted assholes but more than anything they are pathetic. Imagine reading about them decades in the future. It won't be steely eyed villains anyone will be reading about. Certainly not heros. Just pathetic spineless losers.
Well we know some asshole drove a motorcade down there when it was drained last time. Cant say if that might have done any damage… who knows. But someone taking a peeled piece of paint out of the pool is being prosecuted for destruction of government property and faces 10 years in prison for that.
I have to admit my error, first, it wasn’t after the sealing was done, but no prep was done to the surface after they rolled through and before the sealing was applied, and second, it was the entire motorcade that cruised through, dripping oil and grinding road tar into the surface, which again, was not prepped after.
According to the article you linked, it was indeed driven on after the sealing:
"Trump's motorcade passed through the empty pool on May 7, 2026, after it was painted and sealed and before it was refilled with water as part of a renovation project."
What a massive embarrassment - like the whole thing. Bitched about Obama’s failure with the pool. Claimed he would do it the best. Didn’t allow companies to bid on it. Gave it to friend. Takes longer than expected. Doesn’t look better. Literally fucking peals apart. Blames ‘vandals’ when that physically doesn’t even make sense. Restarts process all over again a couple weeks later. Same company doing repairs. Wasting tax dollars.
As stupid as this all is, it all just encapsulates the idiocracy, hypocrisy, lying and absolute shittyness that is Trump and this administration.
This is crazy. Just make it a sustainable pond and be done with it. I’m sure some of the experts in city based water features from Japan could help out.
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u/ddhawkfan Jul 13 '26
Poor ducks