He really is grasping at straws with this one.

before I read your post. You're absolutely right.

Thank Whatever I'm not that intellectually bereft and deluded...

Bullshit "President" lies about another fiasco that he and he alone owns!!!

The correct treatment is with OZONE. It takes some scientific know-how to do it properly. But O3 reverts to pure oxygen, no residue, aftermath.

I call it RAVING LUNACY.

but his lies are getting more and more ridiculous as time passes and the fact he doesn't realize that does sound like "raving lunacy".

And didn't Trump say that the special American Flag Blue coating would be so tough that it couldn't be cut with a knife?

It's really tough stuff. Hard to even scratch. It holds up under car traffic, foot traffic, and all sorts of abuses. It's not some thin plastic film like the fillm on top of a frozen pizza, for gooodness' sake.

If properly applied on a correctly prepared surface, cutting a slit with a knife will not cause the coating to spall in a matter of days.
Infiltration under the unadulterated coating could cause it to peel, but a years, not days.
Completely agree that this is a preposterous lie.

I am on a garage-shop forum, one section is all about floors and coatings. There is always someone posting about the multi thousand dollar job they just had done is separating.

It is pretty much always from improper prep. I am fine with my bare concrete floor. But I use my shop it's not a showroom.

I think that pool is just wading pool deep, though. So, SCUBA wouldn't work all that well, anyhow.

...from 18" at the periphery to 30" in the middle.

Or like the shallow end of the pool.

Thanks so much for posting. Yes, it does show the depth of the pool very well.

SEAL TEAM ONE.........LOL

if you didn't mind getting covered with algae.

Run, Suzie!
Run!

It said that. In context it sounded like he meant the flooring of the pool…..with one supposed cut….and they pried the pool lining (cement?) up with their finger tips.

It bonds with the concrete, if things are properly prepared. So, it can't be peeled up.

Now, I doubt that the preparation for the coating was done properly. Before you apply the coating, the surface of the concrete has to be totally dry. If it's not, the coating will not bond well.

Further, if you try to use that stuff on concrete that gets damp from water seeping upwards, the bond will be broken and it will peel off.

There are a number of reasons for the coating to fail, and I suspect it just failed for one of those reasons. The chemicals poured into the water didn't help, either.

It was just a shoddy job, done poorly, and probably with a kickback to some shell corporation by the contractor. I mean, Trump doesn't do anything for free, as he has proven many times.

The coating was bound to fail. So, it did. The entire project was ill-conceived and poorly done.

The bottom was not prepared it was under water for a 100 years. They drained it and rushed the job SOP for trump.

For those out there who are unfamiliar with polyurea…

It is a subset of polyurethane. Both are polyols reacted with isocyanates. A polyurea has what is called an amine terminated polyol. This amine creates a polymer that can set in seconds depending upon what other additives are used to formulate the end coating.

Polyureas used on garage floors are built to cure much more slowly. This is so they can be applied by roller or squeegee and so that flake or colored aggregate can be broadcast into the coating. Sometimes spray applied polyureas are used for industrial floor applications. The spray application is done the vast majority of the time with heated, plural component spray rigs. The material is usually heated in the drums, agitated especially if pigmented, transfer pumps then send each component to tanks that are heated higher. From there the material is pumped through heated lines to the spray gun. The two components do not mix until they are sprayed. Set times can be as fast as 3 seconds.

Aromatic polyols will generally be more chemical resistant. Aliphatic polyols will be more UV stable. They can be built to be rigid or elastomeric. Generally, the higher the elongation then the lower the chemical resistance.

Regarding water infiltration from hydrostatic pressure, if the material is well bonded it will resist the hydrostatic pressure. The load is dependent on where the water table is and how far below the water table the application is. While we don’t know what the specifications were for this project or if there even was a specification, we can ask a few questions. Was the substrate tested for moisture content prior to coating? Polyureas do not like water when being applied. Both sides can react with moisture. To get past that problem using either very fast setting materials on dry concrete or moisture tolerant primers, usually epoxies but not always, can be applied.

This whole project was done fast with, imo, little inspection and oversight.

I've said, many times, that no matter how specialized a topic, there will be someone here who knows all about it.

It's how he's done business his entire life.

It is failing along the lines it was applied. More evidence of inadequate preparation of the base or improper application of the coating. It failed because of those things and because it was a bad idea from the very beginning.

Idiots hiring crooks do do work rarely end up with quality results.

That's the evidence of that.

Straight down the middle of the pool, precision-cut, not one slip of the knife underwater? Antifa must take pride in its work!

Oh wait...that BLUE line means the lining is still there, smack dab in the middle. That can only mean... the vandals cut TWO perfect straight lines, several feet apart, just to be safe! Wait till Trump finds out, there will be HELL to pay! HELL!!

what is the shiny area at bottom right? If done properly, wouldn't the surface texture be uniform?

I'm not sure if that's paint, or maybe it was just leftover water that hadn't drained out yet. It seems like the pool floor was still being treated with something (if not paint) while the motorcade drove through.

Stu-pid stunt.

He's just a crazy asshole, that's the real reason.

There are several important steps involved.

Concrete is a pain in the ass to coat correctly. Coating steel isn’t easy, per se but it is more straightforward imo.

He's somehow thinking that the reflecting pool has a liner. Like the PVC liners seen in above ground, backyard swimming pools, rather than (poorly) cured epoxy over concrete. If it were a vinyl sheet liner then knife damage and "pulling up" would make sense.

He's unfit for the job he holds. But, we knew that all along.

It does not matter what the truth is to anyone
especially his supporters

Its a waste of time and a distraction from important things to address the fantastic lies

He wants them repeated and waved around as the distraction

It's the one where the guy gets told by 20 different doctors he needs to have his penis amputated, and the 21st tells him there's no need to do that because it'll fall off on its own.

In this case, there was no need to slash the coating because it started failing the second it was applied.

I think that's what's going on here ... Dupe the Rubes!

Marjorie Taylor Greene. She was a leader in fantastical theories on all topics.

Her Jewish Space Laser story was right up there: offensive and stupid.

Antifa scuba divers? Lame. Although I gotta say, it made me laugh.

Blame others for his fuck ups.

The debacle has become a metaphor of sorts, but not the one the president had in mind.

For Trump, the Reflecting Pool was supposed to be a totemic success story, demonstrating that his unique approach to problem-solving is fundamentally superior to his predecessors’.

This one project would serve as a metaphor for how awesome his awesomeness is.

Oops.
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— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-06-23T13:15:51.138Z

"You'll see it in court"

H O R S E S H I T !

In other words.

And his healthcare plan, and infrastructure week.

and not allowed to bear witness. ONLY relevant witnesses, and of those, ONLY those pre-approved AND carefully coached by the donald.

The "right time" is in 2 weeks, right?

Embellished it with lies about having pictures.

He is mentally ill.

Maybe a Ginkgo or two. Add some meandering paths lined with spirea hedges and hydrangeas. And some park benches.

Get RID of the reflecting pool. Unless you’re planning to install decent water filtering and purification procedures. Costs more but donald, but what do you care? It’s not coming out of YOUR pocket.

But the mosquitos won’t be too happy…
Heck, by the time you’re done, they won’t want you, either.

Obama and Bush put the required $$ into it. I think it was around $35 million. Nothing needed to be done to it but trump wanted it this unrealistic blue, which he couldn't carry off and which he made a gigantic mess of. All this money that is being spent is to straighten out trump's mess.

The idea is for the pool to connect the two monuments, so turning it into a park would not do that, despite the fact that the trees recommended upthread are very attractive. It doesn't visually carry off that mission, but if that's not important to anyone, a park would be fine.

We will be spending other money to straighten out trump's Iran mess. We will be paying and paying and paying for having someone this incompetent in such an important position.

Now American people: do you understand why you need to pay attention to national affairs and make an informed vote?

I seem to recall some form of idiocy.

He needs to be removed from office.

Now we're talking about his stupid, absurd lies and whether or why aren't true. Not the illegal procurement process, not the rush job that had no chance of success.

Mission accomplished.

trying to hide. There is so much more. At some point, we'll all know a lot more. But not until Trump is gone.

Mission accomplished.

Unless it didn't adhere well at all to the floor of the pool in the first place.

Remember how the fucking ball room was going to cost $200M? Then $250M. Then $350M. Then $400M. And now $600M

Well, the "gash" was originally 250 feet. Then 300 feet. Now 350 feet. And next week probably 400 feet.

an above ground pool and this was the liner.

Does the Reflecting Pool have a coating or a lining? Both terms are being used.

Our garage floor has that poly-whatever coating. No way we could slice that up with any kind of blade.

The backyard above-ground pool we had when I was a kid had a lining you could have poked a hole in with a toothpick.

It gets applied with rollers, like paint rollers. So, you're right; cutting it would do nothing like what has happened.

...but did not want to be guilty of assuming, especially in an area where I have no expertise.

Since there's nobody there who knows anything about such things, they can only report what they see in news releases and the like. That's one of the problems we're facing with understanding what's in the news. Lots of reporting, but not very much explaining going on.

I have no solution, really. It's likely to continue like it is, I think. Lots of news, for example, about AI, but virtually no explanation of what it is and what are its limitations and the current state of the technology. The news is all about investments and job cuts, but nobody really knows what they're writing about and it's too complicated to learn about quickly.

So, we're getting lots of news, but too little actual information. Not a good combination.

...and all that. In my long nurse practitioner career, accuracy and precision were crucially important. Kids' lives and my license were on the line if I was not constantly vigilant. I was very careful about listening, examining, what I said, and what I wrote in charts.

I think I'm hard-wired that way.

Whoever coined the neologism "infotainment" knew whereof they spoke.

Invade Greenland, rename the Kennedy center, tear down the east wing of the White House, Impose, illegal, tariffs, do all you can to wreck the United States and world economy . We are.living in an Idiocracy. A shit sandwich and every day we have to take another bite.

His broken brain just made that up.

This kind of thing (not the 1st time) is convincing me he does have a form of dementia

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The rectangular areas met in the middle of the pool so there was a seam the length of the pool. Once the pool was filled an aerial shot showed a pale line right down the middle of the pool. My guess is that the hydrogen peroxide caused the seam to lift from the cement bottom.

Maybe a circular saw bought at a Walmart fathers' day sale with a mighty long extension cord? I mean, that's possible, isn't it?

Recommended.

Dig a hole to China?

In China, they have a similar phrase. Dig a hole to USA.

Ergo, China did this.

China
China
China

They cut it, they cut it very violently," Trump argued.

It's like something out of a comic book.

Then of course there are the half wits who believe it..

So some vandal slashes the bottom. If that bottom was properly affixed to the granite, it would only result in an imperceptibly thin line. Not something a vandal would be proud of. But if it weren’t properly affixed to the granite, then it might move around. Still, who cares? Who would make such an effort to get such a pointless result?

Just a small amount of thought and application of common sensibilities brings one to the understanding that the story being peddled by the guy in the Oval Office is fantasy.

We should start referring to them as “the wrong” instead of “the right”.

repeated over and over

......VOTE... in the midterms and in 2028....take a friend, hell, take a bunch of your friends.... but

V O T E ! ! ! !

That either stands for Bull Shyte or Blame Shifting.

Your choice entirely.

I think vehicles weighing several tons might had been enough to cause unnecessary stress on a bad paint job.