Union representative concerned about safety as workers rush to finish repainting DC pool before 250th celebrations
Workers renovating one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Donald Trump may be risking their safety as they race to finish on time for the US’s 250th anniversary celebrations, a union monitoring the site has warned.
Trade union scrutiny has focused on the reflecting pool on the US capital’s National Mall – scene of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a dream speech” – after it was drained of water and fenced off from the public to allow contractors the chance to upgrade it by 4 July.
The pool, a Washington landmark since it was dug in 1922, is currently the site of frenetic repair activity, its usual watery surface occupied instead by vehicle and work equipment. Tourists visiting the area have found their view obscured by black tarpaulin.
It’s not - the original design intention was for it to be a reflecting pool. Orangeboi hears “pool” and automatically expects to see the sort of bright azure blue square that you see for swimming pools in warm states like Florida; thus, he got “his pool guy” to come and resurface the reflecting pool, though they were sane enough to talk him into a very dark blue (which will probably be less reflective than the surface that was there before, but orangeboi doesn’t care) (also, iirc it was recently resurfaced under the Obama administration, which I’m certain plays a role in his desire to resurface it, because orangeboi is racist as absolute fuck, on top of categorically hating Obama’s guts)
Just America things 🫠
The biggest thing with this fiasco is that he awarded the contract to his buddy. Blatant corruption
We need to add a new rule to the eligibility rules.
No Florida Man.