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dem4decades

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26. Trump says it's vandals, nobody says and different.

Reply to LiberalLovinLug (Reply #16)

Sun Jul 5, 2026, 03:28 PM

18 hrs ago

The trials for the vandals should be interesting, I wonder if the government will allow the defense to hire its own witnesses to study the damage.

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Trump's administration won't seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool [View all] BumRushDaShow 21 hrs ago OP

And will there be new vandalism? sinkingfeeling 21 hrs ago #1

Now that it's July 5th, you'll never hear about this project again newdeal2 21 hrs ago #2

Short attention span. He's already bored with Iran so Cuba look out. Ritabert 21 hrs ago #4

Where ther bids the first time or just awarded ? republianmushroom 21 hrs ago #3

Awarded to some firm that did work at his Virginia golf club. Ritabert 21 hrs ago #5

It's weirder than that. pat_k 18 hrs ago #20

Well the head of the firm lives in Palm Beach near Trump. Ritabert 18 hrs ago #23

Atlantic Industrial Coatings, based in New Canton, Virginia, received a no-bid contract to waterproof and coat the floor pat_k 17 hrs ago #27

To quote Curly Howard, The Madcap 16 hrs ago #33

What complete bullshit Bayard 21 hrs ago #6

This company should actually HAVE to redo it for no cost. They are responsible. LiberalLovinLug 18 hrs ago #16

Trump says it's vandals, nobody says and different. dem4decades 18 hrs ago #26

With all the expert opinions and information that's come out underpants 21 hrs ago #7

"people would think he'd been wrong." pat_k 18 hrs ago #22

It was a ratfuck all along Ponietz 20 hrs ago #8

Burgum is such a nasty little guy Blues Heron 20 hrs ago #9

Serious sycophant. Ritabert 18 hrs ago #24

Who in this administration isn't? dem4decades 17 hrs ago #28

They'll use the same company because they did a fantastic job???? Except maybe they didn't prepare the surface Vinca 20 hrs ago #10

Well lonely bird 20 hrs ago #11

Well, something sure wasn't right and while I'm no pool painter, I know surface prep is everything. Vinca 18 hrs ago #15

You are correct regarding prep lonely bird 18 hrs ago #17

I thought the piperliner 5000 was clearly inappropriate?!? pat_k 18 hrs ago #19

OK lonely bird 12 hrs ago #36

It was exposed grey concrete. pat_k 12 hrs ago #37

And before it cured liberalgunwilltravel 20 hrs ago #12

I don't recall him getting out to inspect anything fargone 10 hrs ago #38

He didn't. liberalgunwilltravel 2 hrs ago #39

So that mean the toupee guy can mess it up further and be paid to do so. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 19 hrs ago #13

They didn't receive bids the first time mdbl 19 hrs ago #14

"Thankfully, the vandalism was small." pat_k 18 hrs ago #18

It "was small. It was bad. " uppityperson 18 hrs ago #21

Yes. Caught himself there. pat_k 17 hrs ago #29

From what I see the so-called gash is a trench between concrete slabs for drainage purposes Ritabert 18 hrs ago #25

The only cuts are in expansion joint foam and were reported early. pat_k 17 hrs ago #30

For the narcissist, it's just as good to be worse... ananda 16 hrs ago #31

... it could fall into a felony ... just like damaging any other government property could IcyPeas 16 hrs ago #32

"We'll have the same people do the same thing the same way as before! What could go wrong?" struggle4progress 15 hrs ago #34

They could always arrest and charge more people LisaL 15 hrs ago #35

My guess is that they will drain it... Hugin 1 hr ago #40