Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no.
Specifically, it balked at two requirements – the Trump administration wanted it done by July 4, and the pool bottom had to be blue, according to two employees with the New Jersey-based Sika Corporation, which provided the concrete construction and sealing products for a 2010 renovation project to the Reflecting Pool.
According to the two employees, who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be identified, both demands made the job “unfeasible.”
Wait, people were driving on the reflecting pool just after the bottom was painted blue?
His upcoming appearance in front of the pool (because milli vanili canceled and are dead) will be at 9pm for… important secret president reasons.
Also just unrelated fact to share because I like to be helpful, sunset time in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 2026 is 8:34 PM.
Online commentators have also speculated that the bottom of the pool may have been affected by the presence of heavy equipment and trucks — and a presidential motorcade that drove through at one point — shortly after the coating was applied.
Ravi Kurani, President of Standard Water Corp, an industrial technology company, told CNN he would never recommend driving cars out onto a pool surface, especially when renovations are being done.
“It’s like you’re putting flooring on your kitchen floor and then you’re take a really heavy tractor on top of it – it’s going to mess it up a little bit.”
lol
WTF? I had no idea… I really wanted to see this, so here is a video.
the time delay made it unfeasible because to paint something - even if it’s polyurethane based or epoxy based- you have to dry it out first. otherwise the moisture does bad things. (aka, causes it to not adhere properly.)(aka causes it to flake off.)
It’s rather like painting over wet drywall mud.
The “it must be blue” because blue absorbs more light than white- and that caused the massive algae bloom.
But Trump is a moron who can’t comprehend just how fucking stupid he is, or that he’s not the smartest person in the room; so of course he gave it to his buddy who was happy to do it for a “small” bonus, even though that guy is at least as stupid as Trump is.
And apparently they drove on it, like an entire motorcade
that probably didn’t actually do any harm…
the water weighs more than even trump’s fat ass.
It’s more about the friction from the tires
It does, but it’s essentially static weight distributed over the whole thing, rather than specific moving points if pressure
I’d think you’d want the bottom to be black, so that it reflects the surroundings instead of being visible. You say the blue color caused the algae bloom by absorbing more light, is that a temperature thing? I would think absorbing more light would leave less for photosynthesis. I thought the algae bloom was caused by not maintaining the filtration system.
It’s classic Trump, slap a coat of paint on a problem instead of fixing the rot underneath. Change the aesthetics while destroying the purpose of it. I’m just amazed he didn’t paint it gold.
The impact of the blue (Or any dark ) paint was that it absorbs more radiation from sunlight, increasing the temperature of the water in the pool. It’s this temperature increase which gives rise to the algal bloom. Theoretically painting it black would have been even worse.
slap a coat of paint on a problem instead of fixing the rot underneath.
I think you just described why he wears orange makeup everyday
Obama painted the bottom
blackgrey for the better reflection.
They’re too stupid to understand bodies of water are blue because they reflect the sky. Typical failure to grasp a simple idea by the a profoundly stupid and incurious child rapist.
… That isn’t why water is blue though…
I know you think you’re being clever, but the sky is blue because it reflects the water, too. It only works with sunlight, which is why everything would look blue if you stood in a small room with water, air, and the sun.
… That isn’t why the sky is blue though…
The sky is blue due to differential scattering. Blue light scatters more than red. That’s also why sunsets are red. It’s the remaining light passing through the atmosphere.
Water is often blue due to reflecting the sky. It also has a slight blue tint. This is only obvious in large, deep bodies. It’s why the sea around some tropical islands looks so blue. They are volcanoes, so the water drops off rapidly. That much water has a significant blue colour. The sky then adds to it.
The sky then adds to it.
AH HA! So you admit that I’m right that the sky is blue, which makes the water blue, which makes the sky blue! If only we could harness this perpetual blue for energy production…
The sea doesn’t make the sky blue. The sky simply is blue for most of the day.
