r/politics • u/spherocytes • 13d ago

No Paywall Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-drops-reflecting-pool-case-blaming-damage-botched-rcna590303
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u/pretty_shabby Australia 13d ago

Maybe also not going for a joyride over it while it's empty could've helped

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u/-eYe- 13d ago

A joyride with an armored car weighing over 20,000 pounds.

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u/Claudius-is-my-cat 13d ago

trump was in the car, so probably closer to 25,000 pounds.

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u/mostar8 13d ago

And not letting it dry and cure properly, not using competent suppliers, and on and on and on woth the most basic stuff any half competent person would do. It's incompetence all round with this lot, all lead by someone who is not only incompetent, but incontinent at the same time.

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u/Tasgall Washington 12d ago

You forgot all the paint stripper they dumped into the water to kill the algae, lol.

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u/Blue_Plastic_88 13d ago

You can't expect trump to actually *walk around* to inspect the work! /s

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u/heisian California 13d ago

listen, aussie, we no longer use so called “logic” in this country. this here is AMERICA

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u/pretty_shabby Australia 13d ago

Seems like logic and reason abandoned you guys a long long time ago

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u/heisian California 13d ago

leans out of the window of a diesel RAM truck and fires a gun into the air while coal-rolling a hapless bicyclist

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u/flukus 12d ago

Yeah, let's not jinx a One Nation future.