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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSHitler is now planning to DESTROY the Lincoln Mem Reflecting Pool - call it "Biden Filth"
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reveals-plan-fix-lincoln-reflecting-pool-11115298When reached for comment, the Interior Department declined to provide any details about the project, while saying it is "committed to this effort."
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool: What to Know
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, one of the most recognizable landmarks on the National Mall, was completed in 1923 as part of architect Henry Bacons design for the memorial complex honoring President Abraham Lincoln. Stretching nearly 2,000 feet between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the long, shallow pool was intended to create a dramatic visual corridor that mirrored two of the capitals most significant monuments. Over the decades, it has become a gathering place for major national events, including the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech.
The pool has undergone multiple renovations, including a major reconstruction completed in 2012 to modernize its aging infrastructure. The project added a new filtration system and replaced the pools original dirt-and-concrete basin, which frequently leaked and had long struggled with water quality problems. Despite periodic closures for maintenance, the Reflecting Pool remains one of Washingtons most visited and photographed sites, symbolizing national reflection and serving as a backdrop for demonstrations, celebrations and public life on the Mall.
Kid Berwyn
(22,482 posts)
Piggy do whatever Piggy wants to do.
Blue Full Moon
(3,059 posts)lonely bird
(2,655 posts)The next Democratic president (hopefully there will be elections) should tear it and the ballroom down. Also the presidential wall of fame.
Harker
(17,204 posts)True to his nature, he'll try to forcibly impose himself in the most bombastic manner.
EarthAbides
(411 posts)The fascist pig has been fighting with the ballroom architect about making the ballroom bigger. It is going to turn into a hotel Convention Center with money going to the Trump family.
Do you really think the fascist pig has raised money for the ballroom?
Harker
(17,204 posts)Sugarcoated
(8,234 posts)What does President Biden have to do with the Reflecting Pool? 🤔
H2O Man
(78,382 posts)the obvious answer is "nothing." President Obama and VP Biden were focused upon important issues. It is the felon who is preoccupied with having his name associated with the physical features one sees in DC.
Sugarcoated
(8,234 posts)Jfc
GoCubsGo
(34,596 posts)who is deep in the throes of dementia, an affliction that often comes with hallucinations. Anyone who has the ability to remove this addled motherfucker from office, and is not doing so, needs to be brought up on charges. I don't give a shit whether they're charge with sedition, elder abuse, or whatfuckingever. The whole goddamn lot of them are aiding and abetting this bullshit, and they all need to rot in prison for the rest of their miserable fucking lives.
TheBlackAdder
(29,913 posts)ancianita
(42,711 posts)absolutely nothing. In the felon's evil self love imagination, everything. He simply labels anyone to justify his insecure and hateful actions. Monuments to himself will be taken down as soon as he's gone, along with all record of his rule by executive orders.
calimary
(88,661 posts)
monuments to himself will be taken down as soon as hes gone
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We ALL need that to happen. All monuments to himself.
Too bad were still gonna be stuck with him in the history books, though.
AllaN01Bear
(28,248 posts)Igel
(37,236 posts)But it's convenient for some reason, he's to be the personal supervisor of the work crew or office or coding team.
Just before Thanksgiving they drained the reflecting pool to clean out fallen/rotting leaves, a large-scale algae outbreak, a lot of goose crap and the large growth of algae that all that conveniently converts sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, nitrogen and phosphorus into ever more algae.
Problem's been a while in the making. So it's Biden's fault.
haele
(14,956 posts)If not on a sooner schedule (maybe every other year)
The pool was probably closed and cleaned during the Orange one's first Administration.
lostnfound
(17,329 posts)Emile
(39,693 posts)regnaD kciN
(27,392 posts)
intended to evoke Versailles, but more reminiscent of the Bellagio Hotel in Vegas.
Maybe with the addition of golden statues of nymphs with yuge racks?
KS Toronado
(22,456 posts)rsdsharp
(11,641 posts)The more stuff he builds with his name on it, the more stuff we can have fun bulldozing.
flvegan
(65,564 posts)kickbacks from contractors and general grift.
I foresee somehow redoing the pool with 4"x4" gold tiles with a raised "T" (for Trump or Turd or Tinypenis or Terriblechildrapist or whatever) that anyone can purchase and personalize for $100. Bigger tiles available for $1,000. He'll pocket the cash and the tiles will be less than contractor grade, painted gold-ish and available 2 weeks from never.
Blue Full Moon
(3,059 posts)dalton99a
(91,466 posts)orangecrush
(27,817 posts)ancianita
(42,711 posts)headquartered in Washington D.C.that manages the majority of the city's parkland, which includes nearly 90% of its public parks, memorials, and historic sites.
This time, if he fails to get his monument's building approval he'll have multiple lawsuits on his hands.
Shipwack
(2,948 posts)But in the one we live in, the ruling bodies that were supposed to protect the East Wing were powerless.
I doubt that an agency actually controlled by the executive branch is going to do any better.
The project planning will be kept quiet until we wake up one morning and the news is talking about how the pools are being drained and cement trucks are pulling up. Theyll say Its not new construction, just repairs as the reason paperwork wasnt filed or public comments allowed.
ancianita
(42,711 posts)I agree that a branch as part of the Executive can't do much, but if his destruction was a secret, they can't be held as intentionally powerless. They were LIED TO. CONTINUALLY.
As with everything else he does, in secret or covered up, he's lawless. The NPS could have moved to file a PRO, but it was too late. Everyone in the country was taken by surprise by the felon.
Gaugamela
(3,118 posts)Racism and venality are all these people stand for.
Grim Chieftain
(1,036 posts)He has destroyed our White House, our democracy, our economy, our standing with allies, our Department of Education, our Health Department - I could go on and on, but you know the list of offenses. He gets away with every damn thing.
Seriously, what the hell?
Shipwack
(2,948 posts)The American people have three flaws:
1) Incuriosity
2) Apathy
3 I dont know the third and I dont feel like looking it up.
B.See
(7,504 posts)to meet unfettered evil with equal resolve?
notinkansas
(1,293 posts)Wish I could rec that post *many* more times.
Grim Chieftain
(1,036 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 29, 2025, 05:24 PM - Edit history (1)
in2herbs
(4,093 posts)Vinca
(53,113 posts)WTF is wrong with Congress? Why do they let him get away with this? Getting rid of the reflecting pool is literally flushing history down the drain.
notinkansas
(1,293 posts)they are complicit.
struggle4progress
(125,264 posts)He wasn't there again today
Could someone drop him in the bay?
bucolic_frolic
(53,524 posts)Destroy everything from the greatest presidents ... FDR's east wing, Lincoln ... what's left, the Founding Fathers? Washington? Jefferson? Adams?
Blumancru
(133 posts)and dare him to do it.
Dem4life1970
(1,034 posts)The Wizard
(13,521 posts)must be razed and brought back to its original state. A lien on all of his assets must be used to pay for his defacing public property. His vandalism should bankrupt his family.
Every day the Romanov solution makes more sense.
Blue Owl
(58,033 posts)Its been there longer than just about any of us, including Joe .
B.See
(7,504 posts)rewriting America's history.
Because he knows that America's history is intertwined with the history of those he wants to demonize, denounce, and ERASE.
Because our history gives testimony to that which he (and those of his ilk) want to DENY.
Just as these edifices and monuments give testimony to that which he'll NEVER measure up to, and to those FAR NOBLER, whom he despises.
The very sight of them, a constant reminder of his UNWORTHINESS to even WALK among them.
So, like America itself, he wants to destroy it ALL, and remake it in his own image.
Newsflash: If these things, their history, what they stand for, mean nothing to you, if our institutions, our diversity, our democracy, our Constitution mean nothing to you, then you can't POSSIBLY 'love America,' mf.
electric_blue68
(25,252 posts)Messing with The Reflecting Pool would also infuriate me.
Why in particular? Well, I've been by it during a few demonstrations.
But more importantly I've been by it during plain fun vacations. On a glorious blue sky, low humidity Summer's day walking towards, and visiting The Lincoln Memorial. Reflecting colors of sunset, and seeing a pair of black swans with vivid red beaks! Finally, the lit George Washington Monument reflected in the pool while visiting The L M at midnight!
Gloriously peaceful, and beautiful experiences. A simple, yet special place. Don't mess with the visuals, bastard!
bif
(26,531 posts)And absolutely no one will try to stop him.