>Trump gave $6.9M no-bid contract to his ‘pool guy’ to repaint reflection pool under ‘urgent’ exemption>President Donald Trump used a government exemption to give a $6.9 million no-bid contract to his “pool guy” to repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a blue color after complaining it “never looked great.”>The exemption is typically reserved for urgent situations to prevent “serious injury, financial or other, to the government”, according to documents reviewed in an exclusive report by The New York Times.>But Trump used the exemption to get the company, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, to quickly begin work on the memorial as part of an array of building projects and refurbishments taking place across Washington D.C., ahead of America’s 250th birthday this year.>“I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools up the road,” Trump told reporters about the project in the Oval Office last month.>Usually, government contracts are awarded to the vendor that can do the best job, for the lowest cost, through a public bidding process. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reflecting-pool-washington-contract-b2973560.htmlThe blatant corruption continues. This project was $1.8 million when drumpf first mentioned it, now it's at $6.9 million and I bet it's going to cost over $15 million before the work is done. And it's such an eyesore painted blue. trumptards will defend this
imagine reading that
>>534774058lmao painting pools is what niggers, spics and white trash do when they cant afford a proper resurfacing. three years from now the surface of the reflecting pool will be covered in little blue paint flakes. screenshot this post>t. pool builder
>>534774058Can this even be called a pool? A pool for ants? Seems more like an oversized curb drain.
>>534774134Trump is really the arch Boomer.... actually.Does he have a boat?
>>534774134What about the cost? Millions for painting a pool seems a bit steep. How much is drumpf skimming off the top?
the ballroom started at $0 taxpayer dollars when too but it's increased infinity % to $1 billion taxpayer dollars now
>>534774058It's gonna look great when it's done.
>>534774226theres a lot that goes into that. which paint theyre using (rubber, epoxy, acrylic), staff pay, specifics of the reflecting pool, insurance, etc. generally with the orange jew its a safe assumption that he's hired cheap labor and is grifting. in my area you can have an average sized swimming pool professionally painted for around $5000
>>534774058>wall of textfuck off nigger
would you rather have blue paint that costs 15 million or send the 15 million to israel hm? maybe you should vote about it hm?
>>534774058don’t care, really don’t give a shit. we’re giving somalis literal billions just for shitskinning up the land of 10k lakes who cares about a measly 15 mil?
>>534774465These are the retards that make the republican party possible
>>534774356How long does a paint job last as opposed to a full proper resurface?
>>534774714average life of paint is 2-5 years depending on the type (rubber, epoxy, acrylic) and the quality of the surface prep before applying. a properly resurfaced gunite shell pool will last 20-40 years minimum depending on the surface material selected (plaster vs aggregate finishes) and the maintenance care it receives over its lifetime
>>534774607there’s bigger problems than this is the point. I don’t care if my side spends 15 cents to paint a pool when billions are blown giving low IQ scamming shitskins billions in TX MN and CA with zero repercussions. That’s what you should be whining about not whimpering about DC improvement contracts. I don’t care about a skirmish when there’s a war to win like deportations and voter ID
>>534774058I think it’s awesome and it’s going to look incredible when it’s finished. King Neptune himself would put his stamp of approval on it
>>534774808Based off what's publicly visible with pictures etc from the reflecting pool, are you expecting just paint flakes to pop up in the next ~5 years or something more serious?
>there’s bigger problems than thisNo shit, its called you retards having votes
This is why the US is dying. You're all in tears over making your country look grandiose, which is not a bad thing. Shame on you, burgers. Shame on you. Enjoy your nice fancy looking pond.
>>534774918its tough to tell from the pics. regardless the maximum life of properly applied high end paint is 5 years so this all needs to be redone around 2030 anyway. that pool itself needs serious attention though. i remember visiting DC in 2004 and it looked fucking shabby then but thats what happens when you build a city on a goddamn swamp
>>534774134you also build cardboard houses and give every nigger,child,woman the ability to own a deadly firearm....just one more nail in the coffin of being a laughingstoke and shitty clown country
>>534774995>thats what happens when you build a city on a goddamn swampTell me about it, I'm still waiting for half the country to vanish beneath the waves.Is there something more substantial to be done short of a full rebuild then? Or is it all doomed to be a redo of blue paint (maybe gold leaf knowing how daft and tasteless Trump is) for the next few decades?
>>534774813kys migger scum
>>534774134its an industrial coating not paint, vinyl or poly floors for industrial shops, manufacturing, etc.. this is the same shit they put in hospitals and other commercial buildings and it lasts for decades with heavy usage. now the real problem is that this blue will cause the water to not be a natural color and it will no longer create the mirror effect it used to.
>>534774058It was ugly. I've been there many times.
>>534774058why do leftists hate woman owned companies?
>>534775094>>534774995They built D.C. where it is because it was kinda halfway between the North and South and it is so shitty there that they figured people wouldn't be there in the summer.But now we have A/C.D.C. used to be 85% niggers. They.called ir "chocolate city" for decades.Gays and retarded liberal whites started to gentrify around 2005 and now the city is what, I think under 50% niggers.
Don't worry trannies!in 2 more years it will be a Democrat in office committing constant fraud and you will go back to not giving a fuck because reasons.
>>534775094from what i hear it has severe structural and leak issues and needs a good full rebuild. i havent kept up with it enough to know more but with the GOP at the helm i expect nothing but cheapness>>534775112lmao this. clients pick dark surfaces to reflect, and light surfaces to exemplify the water and pool surface itself. hopefully theyre using something more robust than off-the-shelf pool paint but again, trump
>>534774171pool does not mean swimming pool
>>534774058>Now do what the original Biden bid was supposed to be. In April 2026, President Donald Trump announced a renovation of the leaking, 100-year-old Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, rejecting a proposed $300–$350 million, three-year granite replacement plan in favor of a roughly $1.5–$2 million, "American flag blue" swimming pool coating, reported on NBC News
>>534774058The "taxpayer money" is lost when it leaves your pocket and enters the federal budged. They are guaranteed to be wasted on something that either hurts you or just not benefits in any way. This whole "corruption" shit when discussing government spending is just talking point for anti PR, because it assumes that if you do a proper paperwork before spending government funds on absolute shit, like Israel, or minorities, or diversity quotas or gay niggers in Uganda, it's gonna be legit, while in fact, it will not and the corruption has already happened when you parted with your money at tax office. It's like if you get jumped by niggers but then they didn't leave right away and invited you to discuss whether they gonna spend the money on weed, crack or booze and after taking your opinion into consideration, left and you was like "well shit good thing I live in a democratic country" and went home satisfied.
>>534775203Did you get ass-railed in Klobachar’s committee seat too?
>>534774058I remember it did look kind of murky and dirty when I saw it in person
>>534774226Note that Obama and Biden spent a couple hundred million 'attemtping' to fix the reflecting pool.
>>534774058>The blatant corruption continues. This project was $1.8 million when drumpf first mentioned it, now it's at $6.9 million and I bet it's going to cost over $15 million before the work is done.Of course. And "his guy" just puts money in his pocket. Like the Trump phones, the Trump shitcoins, the Trump jihadi plane, the Trump ballroom and 100 other projects people have forgotten at this point. All money in his pockets, all happening in the open.Just a reminder that miggers were complaining about Nancy Pelosi and insider trading, this fucktard is robbing them blind all in the open and not one cunt of the "fiscal responsibility party" has shit to say about it. Remember Hunter Biden and his deals in Ukraine? Yeah? And what of Zion Don's kike inlaw he's made the head of a dozen deals in the middle east? The fucking "board of peace" that Zion Don is a perpetual member of with the billion dollar buy-in? How about the clear market manipulation every Friday for half a year with giant bets placed beforehand? Drain the swamp lmao.
>>534774058>No bid contract to Drumphs guy >Fraction of the cost of a government (((open bid))) project and went to some wop instead of a state mandated trans nigger otherkin owned business >Already almost done Interesting
It'll cost 12 mil next week
>>534776317>Fraction of the cost of a government (((open bid))) projectWe don't know that, there are no other bids
>>534776345>art of the steal
>>534774058There is a bunker under the pool and the water was stage 1 missile buffer. The blue is needed for new technologies, space lasers.
>>534775416it fucking should be, staffed with lifeguards and refreshment stands
>>534776397>T...t...they said open bid is for the lowest price goy! >Lowest price from a trust of companies bidding with correct special carvouts for federal contract eligibility >Kerflumph bypasses whole fake and gay process, pool already recoated. We know
>>534775112>now the real problem is that this blue will cause the water to not be a natural color and it will no longer create the mirror effect it used to.This is not correct. The reflection happens at the boundary layer when factoring in the index of refraction and the wavelength of the light. i.e. it will look the same as it did before as far as the reflection goes.The blue opaque coating underneath will have no impact on the reflection.
>>534774058Guess what, chud? I voted for this.
>>534774134Tradies like you are why I DIY most tasks.
>>534776914I also voted for nepotism and self dealing
wait till you discover name of the architect contracted to build the white house ballroom. kek
>>534777887unironically, good for you. break all dependency that you can. i DIY everything i can too around my house and recently i'm fed up with retarded mechanics and their jeet suppliers so this summer i'll be teaching myself to do oil changes and brake replacements
>>534774058>Usually, government contracts are awarded to the vendor that can do the best job, for the lowest cost, through a public bidding process.
