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Trump administration blames Obama after ‘blue’ Reflecting Pool turns green after $14M refurb
Administration had claimed algae at Lincoln Memorial pool would be cleared after the renovation, but it has proliferated amid warm weather Donald Trump ’s $14.2m bid to turn the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool from what the US president described as a “filthy” and “dirty” site into a “beautiful” m...
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What happenedPresident Trump previously vowed to paint the Reflecting Pool an ‘American flag blue’.
The headline splitOne side frames it as "Algae thwarts Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn reflecting pool ‘American flag blue’". The other frames it as "Trump administration blames Obama after ‘blue’ Reflecting Pool turns green after $14M ref...".
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Left / center-leftAlgae thwarts Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn reflecting pool ‘American flag blue’
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Algae thwarts Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn reflecting pool ‘American flag blue’
Administration had claimed algae at Lincoln Memorial pool would be cleared after the renovation, but it has proliferated amid warm weather Donald Trump ’s $14.2m bid to turn the Lincoln Mem...
MAGA kooks are drowning in dirty reflecting pool conspiracies
President Donald Trump's $13 million renovation on the National Mall's reflecting pool has proven itself to be the boondoggle everyone said it was, as the water in the 6.75 million gallon b...
Staff spotted dumping hydrogen peroxide into reflecting pool to kill algae
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It has been 14 years since the overhaul of the Washington D.C., reflecting pool was finished. It was the first time in 90 years that the reflecting pool was repaired, and a more cost-effect...
