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Rhiannon12866

(261,636 posts) Sat Jun 20, 2026, 03:20 AM Jun 20

What the Reflecting Pool Really Tells Us About Trump - Adam Kinzinger

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was promised to be a quick, inexpensive fix. Instead, it's become a symbol of cost overruns, missed deadlines, questionable contracting decisions, and promises that didn't match reality.

In this video, Adam Kinzinger breaks down how a project Trump claimed would cost less than $2 million and take just two weeks has ballooned to nearly $15 million, while facing algae blooms, peeling paint, and mounting criticism from former National Park Service officials.

But this story isn't just about a famous Washington landmark. It's about leadership, accountability, government spending, federal contracting rules, and whether the promises made to voters are being kept.

If you're interested in politics, government accountability, public spending, presidential leadership, and fact-based political analysis, this is a story you won't want to miss. - 06/19/2026.

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What the Reflecting Pool Really Tells Us About Trump - Adam Kinzinger (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jun 20 OP

There was no "cost overrun" in the textbook sense.. Permanut Jun 20 #1

Making a note. I want to spend some time with this. calimary Jun 20 #2

So dumpie personally contacted swimming pool repair companies? KS Toronado Jun 20 #3

gotta love the name of the company that got the grift contract Skittles Jun 20 #4

And as Seth Meyers kept shouting this week: "It's not a swimming pool!" Rhiannon12866 Jun 20 #5

Permanut

(8,747 posts)

1. There was no "cost overrun" in the textbook sense..

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sat Jun 20, 2026, 03:38 AM

Jun 20

Those occur occasionally under normal contracts. That was not the case here.

calimary

(91,592 posts)

2. Making a note. I want to spend some time with this.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sat Jun 20, 2026, 04:07 AM

Jun 20

KS Toronado

(24,266 posts)

3. So dumpie personally contacted swimming pool repair companies?

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sat Jun 20, 2026, 04:58 AM

Jun 20

A real President would have had a subordinate look into it. Strange how his Mar-a-largo neighbor got
the overpriced contract. How much of that was kickback? Will his neighbor fix the peeling paint problem
for free or are taxpayers on the hook for another 14 million?