A lawsuit was filed today to stop whatever it is Trump is doing to the reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington, D .C.He announced last month that a company who does all his pools would be doing the reflecting pool, and for some reason, at his instruction, he said they would be painting it blue, as if it were a swimming pool.Trump announced that it would cost $1 .8 million to do this job.Also, he had somehow just directed that expenditure as if we have the kind of government that works like that, which we don't.But today, the New York Times reports that, mysteriously, late last week, the amount being paid to the people he hired on a no -bid contract to paint the reflecting pool blue, that amount suddenly, on Friday, ballooned from the $1 .8 million Trump had announced to, quote, more than seven times that figure, in an unannounced contract revision on Friday.
The lawsuit seeking to stop the reflecting pool slash swimming pool points out that that reflecting pool is on the National Register of Historic Places, which is supposed to mean something.
The lawsuit filed today also says that the reflecting pool's signature dark color is a, quote, character -defining feature of the reflecting pool, and that the whole reason it's called the freaking reflecting pool is because its dark color means it reflects!
It reflects, for example, the Lincoln Memorial on one side and the Washington Monument on the other side.And they don't say this, but it's implicit, putting up little cabanas and deck chairs around it and painting it blue is never gonna turn it into a swimming pool.
Even though that's all you apparently understand.Trump literally already paved the Rose Garden, now here he comes with, you know, a diving board for the reflecting pool.You first, sir.
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