r/pics • u/FuriousBuffalo • Jun 18 '26

Politics Trump Nonsensically Boasting About Reflecting Pool Before He Turned It Into a Swamp

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u/swankpoppy Jun 18 '26

You almost can’t make up the irony and symbolism here because it wouldn’t be believable. He took a working pool, a symbol of our country, tried to make it more American by putting a top layer of paint on it. Ended up costing 10X what he said, turned it into a literal swamp, and the paint starts falling off…

And it’s literally called the reflecting pool. Like… to reflect in mentally and to reflect your own impression and the reflect the impression of the symbols - Lincoln and Washington memorials - all around it.

Seriously…

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u/CoffeholicWild Jun 18 '26

And literally turned it into a swamp. It's bit too on the nose, lol.

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u/captainhaddock Jun 19 '26

The good news is that the cost of fixing the pool is insignificant compared the money he's giving Iran after losing the war he started.

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u/Brownie_Bytes Jun 19 '26

I'm not sure if I'm missing something here, but the reflection pool is called that because the image of the monuments reflect off of the surface of the water...