Trump drives across Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to inspect new blue coating he’s putting on it
The project uses a no-bid contract and could cost more than $12 million, according to internal Park Service documents.
- On Thursday, President Donald Trump visited the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to inspect a new "American flag blue" coating, driving across the drained basin of the $1.9 million renovation project.
- Inspired by a friend visiting from Germany who criticized the water as "dark, filthy and disgusting looking," Trump rejected a roughly $350 million federal proposal, opting instead for this lower-cost overhaul.
- Workers are draining and resurfacing the nearly century-old basin stretching between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, which Trump told reporters will "look better than it did in 1922 when it was built."
- This renovation reflects the president's broader effort to remake Washington landmarks, following his demolition of the White House East Wing to construct a ballroom there.
- Trump indicated plans to work on the Lincoln Memorial itself but offered no specifics, while the Secret Service maintains heightened security at public venues following an incident last month at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Trump drives across Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to inspect blue coating he's adding
President Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.”
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