Water begins flowing into Reflecting Pool with blue paint job complete

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Source: WTOP

Water begins flowing into Reflecting Pool with blue paint job complete

Will Vitka | [e-mail]
June 4, 2026, 2:11 PM


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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began refilling Thursday with water bubbling up through pipes at the center of the pool, slowly unveiling the full effect of a recent dark-blue paint job.

Work to resurface the reflecting pool was completed Wednesday and the pool is expected to be refilled no later than Sunday, according to a court filing from U.S. Department of the Interior attorneys.

During an event Thursday, President Donald Trump showed a video of the refilling basin. ... “That’s clean, beautiful water,” the president said.

Trump had said a social media post Wednesday that water would begin to flow “shortly.” ... “The walking paths outside of the Pool will, likewise, be cleaned, sandblasted, and finished soon,” he wrote. “This will be the first time since the day it was built, 1922, that it has worked, and worked wonderfully, indeed!”

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Will Vitka
William Vitka is a Digital Writer/Editor for WTOP.com. He's been in the news industry for over a decade. Before joining WTOP, he worked for CBS News, Stuff Magazine, The New York Post and wrote a variety of books—about a dozen of them, with more to come.

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[Walleye]

1. Where is he getting the money for this? Biden's infrastructure bill?

[rampartd]

2. mom's nursing home

[Conjuay]

3. yeah, I believe the walkways will be pressure washed.

The sandblasting won’t occur until we have to remove your stupid blue paint.

[Mz Pip]

4. Better move the cars

Why is all of that equipment still in the pool?

[mdbl]

5. so he didn't go for the bright pastel blue swimming pool look?

I thought that was the original plan.

[PatSeg]

10. In that photo

it rather looks like asphalt, not blue.

[LiberalArkie]

6. Why didn't he have it painted reflective gold?

[Norrrm]

7. Epstein Reflecting Pool / Trump Reflecting Pool

Epstein Reflecting Pool / Trump Reflecting Pool

[EarthFirst]

8. So they're completing the work to the pool; filling it; and then moving on to the adjacent surfaces?

Seems to me that this is bass ackwards.

[dave99]

9. true. if shitstain was a building contractor the pool would be last but it isn't a contractor by any means.

Just a blow hard.

[CaptainTruth]

13. My thought exactly.

Pressure washing the walkways is going to blow dirty water into the pool.

[BidenRocks]

11. I have owned a pool.

Are you going to brush and vacuum your pool? Daily?
Will it be more attractive to insects? Didn't think of that, huh!
This is an ongoing disaster!

[cstanleytech]

12. If Trump visits with some of his female friends from Russia won't it turn green?

[littlemissmartypants]

14. If I could...

I'd gather all of the biggest, poopingest ducks that I could find and invite them to the grand opening of this abuse of us and our money for a party.

If I wouldn't get arrested, I'd fill it with chicken manure myself. Who wants to start a GFM?

FDT

[Bengus81]

15. I thought it was a rush to start it because it was going to take months and months

I want to see the fucking bill on that no bid paint job.

[twodogsbarking]

16. Something will be screwed up. Wait for it.

[Hugin]

17. We should start a pool of when it starts looking like crap.

Yes, I realize that this is a pun.