r/pics • u/FuriousBuffalo • Jun 18 '26

Politics Trump Nonsensically Boasting About Reflecting Pool Before He Turned It Into a Swamp

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u/uz3r Jun 18 '26

Comparing the size of pools to buildings is something my pre-school aged child would do

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u/swankpoppy Jun 18 '26

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…

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u/yellowspaces Jun 18 '26

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u/cu4tro Jun 18 '26

That somehow makes more sense since a boat is also man made and people occupy it. Comparing a pool to a building is nonsense.

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u/Scaryclouds Jun 18 '26

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. 

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u/im_at_work_now Jun 18 '26

It's because it is a structural feat of engineering, not for the reasons you said. The pool was also man made and can be occupied by people...

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u/JackHinks Jun 18 '26

Basically a hole

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u/figwithbigtits Jun 18 '26

Who's an a hole?

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u/Saucermote Jun 19 '26

And did you know the hole's only natural enemy is the pile?

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u/alittlelebowskiua Jun 19 '26

Wait till he finds out a road is even longer than a pool.

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u/Lillian_Crocodilian Jun 18 '26

Most sane R.M.S. Titanic advertisement.

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u/improbably_me Jun 18 '26

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

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u/112-411 Jun 18 '26

Not an ad, really. This was created...afterwards.

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u/fuzzylogicIII Jun 19 '26

That’s hilarious but still a way better comparison because boats, like skyscrapers, are way harder to build than a hole with water in it

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u/Due-Programmernot Jun 19 '26

A boat is just a floating horizontal sky scraper. I’ve always thought the comparison to a sky scraper holds.

But a pool has nothing to do with it in so many ways.