Christina Cotarucci

It's an absolutely absurd claim.

It could be the hydrogen peroxide that workers poured into the pool to try to kill the algae could be part of it.

It could be, you know, that the surface was improperly prepared before the sealant was sprayed onto it.

It could have also been that water is coming up beneath it because one of the things that does need to be repaired at the reflecting pool is all of these

leaky seams between the slabs of concrete.

By the way, after the administration supposedly fixed those leaks, Trump's motorcade drove across it, which might have put too much weight on it and damaged the newly repaired seals between the seams.

But what I can tell you is that, you

in small flakes like paint chips.

It was peeling off in sheets because it's almost like a plasticky coating.

I mean, I can only speculate, but what I know of the Trump administration and of President Trump's demeanor is that they're not motivated by taking slow and deliberative steps toward doing a good job.

They're

easy wins by big, flashy, aesthetic moments and by an extreme, almost delusional confidence that, you know, President Trump alone can fix things and by extreme deference to him.

So if Trump said, I want this guy to paint my reflecting pool and I want it done in two weeks, then

anyone actually responsible for getting that done is like, sir, yes, sir.

You know, they're not going to be like, well, you know, actually, we should take a few months to seek out competing bids and have the nation's best engineers do research on how we can repair this in an enduring way.

I think he probably also didn't care if it failed again in a couple weeks, as long as it lasted through his big rally and through July 4th.

You know, he's not one who cares about what comes after him.

This is his property.

He doesn't think of it as a public space that he needs to steward with an enduring competence.

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