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RockRaven

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3. It was a rush job to meet his dumb birthday deadline. Of course they fucked it up!

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2026, 01:21 PM

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The reflecting pool is ~350,000 square feet. It is absurdly large. And they had an arbitrary and unnecessary deadline.

That ego-driven deadline should be getting a lot more scrutiny by the MSM. That deadline is the most likely "why" rather than flat out incompetence or laziness or corruption -- which are all present to some degree surely. But the root cause of the failure is probably the completely avoidable artificial time constraint. They didn't do what was right, they did what would immediately please the Orange Maniac, with predictable results.

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....As a DC9 union painter with 30+ years in coatings, I'm looking at the failure not a conspiracy theory. When a coatin [View all] riversedge Monday OP

No-bid contracts with hack-leg contractors EYESORE 9001 Monday #1

NO, IT'S VANDALS! maxsolomon Monday #2

I hate those DC9 union painters :) Bluetus Monday #11

It was a rush job to meet his dumb birthday deadline. Of course they fucked it up! RockRaven Monday #3

Absolutely. And that concrete was saturated with water. Bluetus Monday #10

But but but malaise Monday #4

Do a lot of innocent people may be anrrested over this. Kablooie Monday #5

A Person as Truly Stupid and Self-serving as This So-called President The Roux Comes First Monday #6

Union labor Nelg Monday #7

HELL NO ! Trump never uses UNIONs , that piece of ---- would not pay dave99 Monday #9

So now we have a do-over on the reflecting pool. I bet the price will be at least 2-3X what it was the first time. patphil Monday #8