Trump Gives Update On Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation
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Donald Trump is cleaning up Washington, D.C.
His administration is renovating the reflecting pool.
He shared an update with images of how the renovations are going.
Trump said, “Starting the final phase of Renovation that was supposed to cost 301 Million Dollars, and take three years, and was instead done, with the help of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, and his entire Department, and a much better final result – 2 Million Dollars in one week!”
This is the Reflecting Pool at The Lincoln Memorial. Two thousand five hundred feet, the length of the tallest Building in the World. Starting the final phase of Renovation that was supposed to cost 301 Million Dollars, and take three years, and was instead done, with the help of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, and his entire Department, and a much better final result – 2 Million Dollars in one week! I do many such things for Government and, as President, it is my Honor to do so. This is just one of them. Another, and one far more exciting, is Most Favored Nations for Prescription Drugs, where the United States paid the highest price in the World, and now they are paying the lowest, with a drop of 50, 60, 70, and even 80%! President DONALD J. TRUMP
He also shared this final rendering of the pool.
Trump talked about the renovations in the Oval Office.
On Thursday, Trump spoke to reporters at length about his renovations while seated in the Oval Office.
He complained that the decorative body of water — which is roughly the length of six American football fields — “never looked great” because the stone bottom was “not really meant to be a stone that’s underwater for that much of a period of time.”
Trump brought up the project unprompted and spoke about it for several minutes at a White House event on efforts to reduce drug prices. He said he initially wanted a turquoise-colored surface “like in the Bahamas” but was sold when a contractor suggested “American flag blue.”
The reflecting pool, the centerpiece of the National Mall, was completed in the early 1920s. It is drained multiple times every year to scrub away algae and repair damage.
