Trump's Reflecting Pool Scheme Doesn't Hold Water

[Zorro]

The president handed a $6.9 million no-bid contract to his own “pool guy” to turn it blue.

President Donald Trump reportedly skirted the rules to spend massive amounts of money on something Americans never dreamed they needed: A Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool painted blue.

Trump ordered the makeover of the century-old pool on the National Mall, which has been the focal point of such historic gatherings as Vietnam War protests and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Trump somehow determined that overhauling the pool was suddenly “urgent.” That leaky determination allowed him to simply hand a hefty $6.9 million no-bid contract to the company he said worked on the pool at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.

“I have a guy who’s unbelievable at doing swimming pools,” the president told the press in late April. He initially claimed the project would cost $2 million.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-scheme-doesnt-hold-water/

[JoseBalow]

1. How much did he get in kickbacks?

drumpf doesn't do anything that doesn't enrich himself.

[Norbert]

2. Eventually the reflecting pool paint job will be a security issue.

[BComplex]

4. LOL!

No doubt!

[Bristlecone]

3. I'm sure the guy will include work at Trump properties

As a reciprocal.

[relogic]

5. Payment is on the way

Since dtrumpt doesn’t have to pay for this, (another vanity display of elegance), the contractor is so relieved they will actually see payment for services rendered- they are at the moment painting blue, free of charge all toilets tainted green from the algae of neglected use at the Whitehouse.