President Trump’s high-profile renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has devolved into a public embarrassment, with an “unproven” nanobubbler technology failing to stop an algae bloom while the coating beneath it now appears to be leaching toxic chemicals into the water.
The saga — full of botched timelines, unverified vandalism claims and now toxicity concerns — has become an unlikely metaphor for the administration’s broader instinct to paper over problems rather than fix them. A reflecting pool in more ways than one.
