President Donald Trump is having the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool coated in a swimming pool surface hued in "American flag blue," covering up a decades-old granite surface that he said was "leaking like a sieve" and would take years to replace.
The president announced the renovation at an Oval Office event Thursday, saying the coating had already begun. He was inspired to tackle the project after a friend visited from Germany and lamented that the water was filthy and looked disgusting, Mr Trump said. "And I went over there with Secret Service in tow, and I said, isn’t that a shame? That’s terrible," he added, showing reporters a photo of the site as it undergoes work.
