Reflecting Pool now a swamp [View all]
By Drew Magary
June 16, 2026
The one thing that Washington, D.C., has always had going for it is its beauty. The people who run America from this town have always been an unsightly bunch, but they’ve done their nasty work in a city that has acquired, over the course of this country’s lifespan, an aesthetic like no other. No other major American city looks as regally beautiful as D.C. You and I have a long-standing federal law to thank for this, but we also have a collection of national landmarks clustered in the center of the district that the aforementioned law was written to both protect and to showcase. The Capitol. The Lincoln Memorial. The Washington Monument. These are gorgeous edifices, ones designed to outlast old generations and to inspire newer ones ...
And now here comes Donald Trump to f—k it all up.
Not content to let an army of UFC slobs desecrate the capital this past weekend, nor to personally oversee the physical ruination of the White House earlier this year, Trump has now decided to destroy the humble Reflecting Pool along the National Mall. You’ve probably heard about the Reflecting Pool situation: how President Cronyism dished out a no-bid contract to renovate the pool earlier this spring to a company that had done work at his Virginia golf club, how the project came in over budget (big surprise), and how the results have turned out disastrously, with algae blooms overtaking the pool within moments of its unveiling ...
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/trump-reflecting-pool-22306630.php
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