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Author: g0177325 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 77799 
Subject: The Deflecting Pool
Date: 05/10/26 8:09 AM
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It [the biggest story of the day] was not the story, written by David A. Fahrenthold and Luke Broadwater and published in the New York Times, that Trump gave a no-bid $6.9 million contract to reseal the joints, waterproof, and paint bright blue the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Such contracts are supposed to be reviewed and put out for bids, but Trump ignored the review process and used an exemption designed to prevent “serious injury, financial or other, to the government” to award a no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which has never before won a federal contract but which had worked at one of his golf clubs, because he wanted the work done before the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.

The contract is for more than triple the $1.8 million Trump promised, and officials say the repairs will last for seven to ten years, rather than the 50 years Trump claimed. Even that might be generous: One expert warned that the motorcade the president took onto the pool yesterday to review the project was heavy enough to have sprung the newly-repaired joints between the concrete slabs that make up the pool bed.


Trump, the super genius developer, builder, refurbisher and maintainer. Yeah, right.
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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 77799 
Subject: Re: The Deflecting Pool
Date: 05/10/26 11:10 AM
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Trump, the super genius developer, builder, refurbisher and maintainer.

Let's fix that...

Trump, the super grifter...

That is truly all he is. It is, sadly, his only real 'talent'.
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Author: PucksFool 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The Deflecting Pool
Date: 05/10/26 4:09 PM
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I need to read more carefully. I thought the subject was "The Defecating Pool." Sadly it would not have been a shock.
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Author: g0177325 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The Deflecting Pool
Date: 05/10/26 4:54 PM
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I need to read more carefully. I thought the subject was "The Defecating Pool." Sadly it would not have been a shock.

Yeah, that would have been appropriate for an allegedly incontinent POTUS. And frankly I'm surprised he didn't want to paint the pool gold.
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