Trump says final coat completed on Reflecting Pool, water to flow soon
President Trump said renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were completed on Wednesday after being cleaned and re-painted “American flag blue.”
“Excitingly, the final coat of protection will be completed on the Reflecting Pool that sits between The Washington Monument and The Lincoln Memorial, at 4 P.M., today,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
“The water will start flowing, shortly thereafter,” he added.
The president’s reflecting pool project cost $13.1 million, funded in part by the National Park Service’s visitation fee at 80 grounds nationwide.
The renovation project has received pushback from the Cultural Landscape Foundation, a local nonprofit, whose founder, Charles Birnbaum, suedalleging the blue paint coating being added to the reflecting pool is “altering the historic character” without authority.
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