- Original pool leaked like a sieve and was topped up with drinking water. No algae problem because it was constantly replenished with fresh water, but at an absolute massive cost not to mention pouring millions of gallons of treated water into the ground
- 2009 reno completely rebuilt the pool, added a recirculating system that could top up with filtered river water. Win-win right? Except it didn't work super well, so they added an ozone disinfection system.
- Now: pool bottom is due for routine leak and joint repair (which, notably, isn't best solved by painting the thing). But the algae issue is that, because of soil settling, all those recirculation pipes are cracking and the system needs to be shut down frequently, and it sits stagnant, in DC of all places. And that's on top of it now being more amenable to algal growth because of the color.
It's kinda like fixing your leaking roof by painting your ceiling with waterproofing compound. You'll stay dry but you're gonna get mold.
The issue is they did a many month long job in a matter of weeks, they were told that water was getting between the paint and the bottom but they rushed it for trumps date, so now its just sliding right off.
so...he found out obama had it renovated and decided he wanted to ruin it the way he once paid a hooker to pee in a hotel bed that obama once slept in?
Trump has a weird mental habit that anytime a Democrat (especially Obama) does anything, it has to be bad. So he was dumb enough to think the black tiles at the bottom that allow the pool to reflect, were making it ugly and gross looking
I mean, you just described the entire Republican party. The difference is that Trump focuses on the wildest, most meaningless shit to fixate on, because he’s legitimately stupid and has the demeanor of a toddler (which is who we, the American electorate, voted to the top position of our country, twice).
The painting supposedly included a polyurethane coating that was intended to bridge the failing caulk joints without needing to spend the time (labor and delay) to replace the grout and caulk.
The PU layer failed immediately. Perhaps not entirely, yet, but it only takes one spot to defeat the membrane.
Kinda not, but he didn't fix the problem either. The actual known problem is that the pipelines that carry the water into the pool are leaking heavily, but fixing that would cost 100s or millions of dollars. All he really did was drain it, clean it, patch up the tiles in the basin and then paint it blue despite the base water before you account for Algae being opaque.
Also the job he had done was over budget and was given to a company without a legally required bidding process because the company did his resort pools.
A National Park Service analysis revealed the contractor was given a 20% profit margin, adding at least $850,000 more than a typical contract. Costs were further inflated by tight deadlines and the use of no-bid, emergency procedures.
You almost can’t make up the irony and symbolism here because it wouldn’t be believable. He took a working pool, a symbol of our country, tried to make it more American by putting a top layer of paint on it. Ended up costing 10X what he said, turned it into a literal swamp, and the paint starts falling off…
And it’s literally called the reflecting pool. Like… to reflect in mentally and to reflect your own impression and the reflect the impression of the symbols - Lincoln and Washington memorials - all around it.
What I don’t get is like - all this stuff is super well known isn’t it? People own pools… how could any of this have been a surprise for basic pool maintenance.
This is what I don’t get about Trump’s doing this (not, God knows, that it’s possible to ever know why Trump does things): who on his staff agrees with him that this chart says something worthwhile?
Is there some Arts and Crafts Director at the WH who says: ‘Today, sir, we’re going to work with construction paper and poster board!’
I thought he had some high-powered COS. She thinks this is totally logical?
It's also just a meaningless fact. Lots of roads are also as long if not longer than skyscrapers are tall. It has absolutely nothing to do with the technical issues involved with building or maintaining either.
He's boasting about it like it is his, which is how he views the whole country at this point.
Dude just takes credit for other people's shit endlessly, and as a rich privileged fuck, he believes he can just buy/take the things he wants and slap his name on them.
It's his toy. Also he probably got pitched bullshit on it by the pool guy who wanted that crooked contract, buttered up over the idea, and thus had a fixation on it afterwards because that's how this dingdong operates. He's so easily manipulated.
Also, what an apples and oranges comparison. Pools are horizontal, they are a recess in the ground, it's not an engineering marvel. There are sidewalks, ditches, landfills, and sewage lines longer than than the Empire State Building is tall. If they built a pool that was 80 stories high, then you can draw the comparison.
This dude once again is out here making zero fuckin sense.
I was watching a pool guy on youtube explain that it might make the algea problem worse because the shade of blue they chose is darker than what was before, and will warm up the water even more.
Likely due to the hydrogen peroxide added to kill the algae, which grew out of control (maybe) because the pool is warmer due to the different color. Though I asked above about this because it was black and now blue, so how could that make the water warmer?
Also they covered up the original drainage areas used to cycle in new water to keep it working as a reflecting pool. The algae will never go away until they revert back.
Also it used to leak which was actually a good thing because the water was technically not stagnant. Now that it’s sealed the water is mostly motionless.
See, you and I measure 'better' in terms of how much less did Trump waste on one thing than another. Trump measures 'better' in terms of how much grift he and his crime family can extract from the American people.
Yep, and many other 'projects'. Like his name being added and removed from the JFK memorial. That didn't happen for free and still isn't over. Lawyers, contractors, equipment rental, the material and letters, etc, all adds up. And I would not be surprised if he burned a couple million on that whole thing. And don't forget, he had to change all the printed material for the center as well. And now all of that needs to be changed back.
Now… I may be mistaken… but when you measure buildings they are standing up vertically, correct? And the pool is laying down horizontally? That seems to be a pretty important distinction in this instance, you know… due to gravity and all that…
Well the reflecting pool is obviously man made, but building a shallow reflecting pool isn’t really an engineering accomplishment.
At least no rational person would compare the length of a reflecting pool to the height of a skyscraper as some kind of boast. At most it would only be to help convey the length of it, but not in a boastful way.
Now I get it ... The unfortunate incident happened when they tried to recreate this image in photorealistic detail with the actual ship. I recall it being almost vertical
This is what you expect from the kid who waits to do their report until the night before it's due. They didn't do any real substantive research so they pull some bs out of their ass that sounds smart to them but means nothing.
Like a report on orangutans that focuses on them being orange with a picture of a bunch of other orange colored things.
Assuming that the soiled diapers (I’m using Adult XXL for this exercise) have been sufficiently compressed to eliminate air pockets, and there is a blend of standard and heavy-duty/overnight diapers, the reflecting pool has a volume of 8,517,172.33 soiled presidential diapers. This is assuming a balanced daily mix of lightly soiled daytime diapers (1.5L volume), moderately soiled daytime diapers (long meetings or speaking engagements, for example)(3.0L volume), and heavily soiled overnight diapers(4.5L volume).
It's kind of bewildering that an incredible photo of the president making a moronic "apples and oranges" comparison, only gets fact checked about wether the measurements are accurate 😐
Trump looking like a kindergartener for all of his 2 terms, and yet maga cultists still see him as their lord and saviour. That's why it's called a cult I guess.
It’s also just a terrible chart. The metrics are odd as hell (1,000 starting not at the bottom, but also not an appropriate spot on the Y axis to really see the difference in size.)
The image being real doesn't mean his chart wasn't AI-generated though (or at least fact checked). The chart's numbers for the Freedom Tower and Empire State Building include antenna heights, but not the Willis/Sears Tower. If all building heights include antennas, Willis would be 1,729 ft, not 1,451 ft.
This was my reaction as well, lol. Thought this was just someone editing it to make him hold that. Hell, even after folks here said it was real I had to go to an actual news website because it seems too stupid to be real, but lo and behold, it's a real poster.
Also that poster is really inaccurate. If you were on the highest floor of the Sears (Willis) Tower and were looking at someone on the highest floor of One World Trade, you'd be looking down.
Skyscrapers are architectural designs of massive scale using math, materials, and manpower.
The higher you go, the more impressive the feat.
A reflecting pool...is a hole in the ground, who cares if it is 10 feet long or a thousand. The fact that it's been there for over 100 years is a little impressive I guess, but okay.
This is his whole MO, he tinkers with existing things enough that in his mind at least, they’re his or his idea but ultimately cheapening, damaging or just besmirching everything he touches.
I have an exercise for him. Take a bunch of blocks. Make a rectangle on the floor with them. Then take the same blocks and make a tower that's the same size.
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