In Reply to: The Irish know how to greet Tump posted by mh on September 11, 2026 at 10:52:42
Trump is still insisting, insanely, that vandals caused the failure of his no-bid contract reflecting pool renovation.
But even the contractor admits it was a faulty installation:
The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, according to government documents reviewed by The New York Times. […][T]he documents, which have not previously been reported, make clear that the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, found problems in both the design and the execution of the renovation. The documents include Atlantic’s reports to the government as well as daily progress updates from the National Park Service over the past two months.
Human error and the use of incompatible chemicals caused the peeling, but for weeks Trump has been pushing to falsely convict someone, anyone, for the damage caused by his own incompetence.