The hottest story online this week is the Reflecting Pool.
This 2000 foot long body of water designed to reflect the Washington Monument was recently “fixed” by Donald Trump by painting the bottom of the pool in “American flag blue.”
This achievement of routine maintenance was announced with visual aids by a seated, briefly awake Trump in the Oval Office. Photos – real and fake – were slopped all over the twitters by his compliant social media gremlins.
The libs were wrong! The Reflecting Pool could be fixed and for cheap, too, despite the job ballooning in time and money from Dear Leader’s original one-week, $3 million cost estimate to six weeks and $14 million.
I rolled by a few times and it sure seemed that the Okies who got the no-bid contract (20% profit margin) didn’t know what they were doing as they slopped blue sealant of various hues on the empty Reflecting Pool.
But what the fuck did I know about pools, as I was told many times by MAGA cultists. Mr. Trump is a builder! He’s got a pool guy! Your President gets the job done!
Well.
Days after its triumphal reopening, the Reflecting Pool turned green and continued to turn green until it became a fluorescent color more associated with glow sticks than with nature.
I posted photos and video showing the algae outbreak and the chuds accused me of fake news. That’s old video from Obamer!
Anarchy Princess cleverly shared a video of the green water that was taken by a MAGA livestreamer. When they attacked her, she could say, “Don’t blame me. One of yours filmed this.”
Since they couldn’t deny reality, they claimed sabotage. Libs somehow destroyed Trump’s great work by dumping huge barrels of algae into this monument in the most heavily surveilled city on earth.
When that didn’t take, they looked for a non-MAGA scapegoat. A “Reflecting Pool influencer” (yes, there is such a thing) blamed the National Park Service, claiming that algae from the pipes turned the Reflecting Pool green.
Typical. Contractors fuck things up and the regular employees have to fix everything. The “Reflecting Pool influencer” (a real person; read her very entertaining but totally insane Wikipedia) made videos condemning NPS as they stood in slimy water trying to clean up the algae.
Why did the Reflecting Pool turn green? Before the pool was painted, experts predicted that applying dark paint would absorb, not reflect, sunlight and cause the water to heat up. That is what appears to have happened.
Why did this blow up on social media? Every time I posted about the reflecting pool, chuds swarmed me with personal attacks. Anarchy Princess’ tweet got more than 5 million views on Twitter. The story has been covered by NPR, the Guardian, Fox News, the Washington Post – everywhere.
Why did this resonate with the public?
There’s not much Trump can point to as an accomplishment. Cleaning up DC and crowding it with statues is about it.
But after all that AI slop he posted and his rambling Oval Office press conference, the truth was revealed in fluorescent green. Rather than draining the swamp, he created one.
It is also emblematic of everything else he’s fucked up – tariffs, immigration, inflation, gas prices and the Iran War. No amount of Fox News spin or blonde influencers can cover up what Americans see with their own eyes.
It’s as obvious as the green water in the Reflecting Pool.
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