Trump’s blue Reflecting Pool plan sparks preservation backlash
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President Trump unveiled a plan to resurface the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with an 'American Flag Blue' coating to prevent leaks, claiming it would cost under $2 million and take about two weeks to complete; preservationists warn the blue finish could distort the pool’s solemn reading and bypass federal review, reviving debate over unilateral renovations to Washington and drawing online criticism while echoing past renovation controversies.
- Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool worry preservationists, locals The Washington Post
- Trump Says He’s Renovating ‘Filthy’ Reflecting Pool on the National Mall The New York Times
- Trump giving Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool a blue coating NBC4 Washington
- The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Is Being Overhauled by Trump’s Pool Contractor Artnet News
- Trump hires his ‘pool guy’ to redo historic Lincoln Memorial icon: ‘I’ve probably built more than 100 swimming pools’ The Independent
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