I doubt even the cult is buying it

Au contraire.

and reason escape.

Perish the thought.



Pathetic.

claim that there was a about a 300 foot long CUT in the pool lining would mean the length/size of the supposed CUT with a knife would be a little less than the Length of a football field.
This would take a long time to do and the pool is under observation by a camera from what I have read.

I was just trying to imagine how big this supposed cut was.







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That is why it is separating in jagged sheets. Everything out of his mouth is a lie.

There should be specific penalties for this heinous crime

for those pools and their families

Just think of what could happen to a $300 (or 400, or 500 or whatever the latest is) ballroom and that grotesque arch.

Incompetence on steroids

How was it cut?

Which is to say, it is stuff and nonsense, as my grandma would say.

some of them fell for the pet scam.

Seriously, someone not under Trump needs to document the damage so innocent people aren't prosecuted and the people who botched the job are held liable.

…was driven across the newly resurfaced reflecting pool. Why is this fact not front and center in any discussion of damage to the pool?

that the motorcade might compromise the surface and the mechanics of the reflecting pool. Duh.

I shouldn't have had to wade deep into DU to find this out. Seriously, we are hearing about Trump's knife theory, they are arresting people, and no coverage of this?

Im surprised you missed it.

…the surface began to crack and peel, one would think they would question whether the motorcade was the cause. Repotting that the motorcade happened then without mentioning it after the damage became apparent is not fully informative.

It would be impressive to do that much underwater cutting without being noticed. Must be ninjas.

Republicans are a caricature of serious people....

they will find some kind of cutters and some sliced material and whatever else they can "drop" for false evidence.

They may have to build an enormous tarp over the whole thing while it's being "investigated".

The material is designed for steel not for concrete of marble or whatever the reflecting pool is made of.

Fucking idiot did a no bid contract so he could get a piece of the 15 million dollars. Now he will get a piece of whatever it costs to try to fix it.

Why would cutting paint make it come off in sheets?
Unless, of course, it was applied poorly & the added water before it was cured.
In which case, cutting it had nothing to do with it.

Then they drove on the liner and filled it with water before it had time to set

I saw an interview with a “pool guy “, he thought a six month time frame might of worked but of course it was given barely six days

If it had been done correctly, even someone cutting it (which I don't believe) would cause it to spall in chunk.
I actually think it had time to cure, though.
The chemistry suggests 90% curing in about 4 hours; 99% plus in 24 hours.
The kinetic rate is fairly high for an in situ reaction with no mixing to enhance mass transfer.
My guess is that it would be 5-10% cured by the time an area is fully coated by roller.
I know a guy that had that done on his garage floor. They told him to wait 6 hours before parking in there.
That's consistent with what I can estimate as a kinetic rate.
I think it more likely that the surface prep was botched by The Failure's buddy.

The problem or at least one problem was in the original pool’s concrete being patched and not left time to set

HE IS NUTS.

Stop trying to rationalize it.
Everyone knows it.

You never know what will take an more. As long as his approval rating is in the 30s instead of in the teens, his claims have to be countered.

Think critically people!

I'm not even sure it came apart, but the seam is clearly visible in every image I've seen - long and straight down the middle of the reflecting pool. Someone who is determined to play his own stupidity off as vandalism could pretend it was a cut in order to fool people who can't use their eyes and critical thinking.

Is this paint or some material laid down in pieces?

And if just showing through. Look for images of it empty and unpainted and you'll see there is a line down the middle.

It’s rolled over.

I think Trump looked at the central line that was visible through the in paint, had no idea what he was looking at, and decided it was a slash - because nothing else (In his mind) would make a straight line.

The peeling paint is an entirely different matter. I think that's just bubbling up because the surface wasn't prepared properly, was filled with water too soon, and had corrosive chemicals dumped in it. He just conflated the two.

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On. There shouldn’t be any seams at all. If you paint a house, there are not seams.

…. would be proof. This is just Trump lying in order to hide the fact he fucked it up, he hired
a swimming pool company from Florida that had no knowledge about working on structures
such as the reflecting pool, he had a fleet of S.U.V.s drive over it before it was set up, millions
of dollars got grifted, ignored experts about albedo, ignored experts about algae, changed the
structure’s design that had areas that allowed some water to escape from the bottom of the pool,
dumped shit loads of H2O2 into the pool, and then blamed other people for what happened.

The Reflecting Pool was working just fine and the National Parks Service had it under control.

it and it didn't work. Estimate for complete reconstruction would be $300 million, and that was not pursued. I don't recall my source, so tell me if I'm wrong. It's just not my impression there wasn't a problem, just that the solution requires experts, not grift.

upkeep, maintenance, and repairs. However I remember seeing that they throw away some
kind of rubbery material that went in between the joints of the granite and I would GUESS those
joints allowed for some water to seep out from under the pool and into the ground and with the
water table there only being a few feet down the soil would be pretty much saturated and so
the water would drain away slowly.

Before “they” fixed it where were the engineering studies, the hydrogeologists, the fresh water
ecologists, and the vetting of the contractors?

These pools had, kids, teens, grownups and even dogs in them. I don't remember seeing paint peeling. When I have been in these pools, some of these pools have rough surfaces, some smooth, but I don't think I could have even gotten the paint off with a knife. There are plastic liners that could possibly by cut, but that would be a different animal. No question at all that the Idiot in Chief and his pool boy are incompetent.

Yes, the pool was vandalized. The same vandals also vandalized a wing of the White House and the White House gardens.

Anyone who hears Krasnov speak and can't detect that he is lying, is damaged mentally. Sad to be fundamentally unable to relate and compare real experience with words people say.

...of the collapse of the United States under a senile, corrupt orange pedophile .

as if were a serious possibility.
Trump needs scapegoats for his algae disaster.

That's it. I was against the reflecting pool renovation but my God if you're going to do it do it right. If he wanted it done by July 4th he should've drained it months ago and covered it to let it dry properly.