{"id":1781,"date":"2026-06-19T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:38:07","slug":"trumps-botched-vanity-project-fiasco-just-got-even-more-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Botched Vanity Project Fiasco Just Got Even More Embarrassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons, as new revelations surface about one of the contractors involved.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1779\">ICE Barbie Humiliated in $700M U-Turn Fiasco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump, 80, had bragged for months about repainting the massive pool on the National Mall his hand-selected shade of \u201cAmerican flag blue,\u201d but less than 24 hours after the project was completed, the pool turned green with algae. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Soon after, the blue finish began flaking off and floating to the surface, despite the fact that the firm overseeing the renovation had been paid about $14 million\u2014more than seven times Trump\u2019s original estimate of $1.8 million. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, The New York Times has revealed that the firm tasked with installing the water-purification system to prevent algae bloom is owned by a long-time Trump supporter and two-time felon who pled guilty to bribing a congressman and violating campaign finance laws. <\/p>\n<p>Federal contracting records show the National Park Service bypassed the government\u2019s usual competitive-bidding process and awarded a $1.7 million no-bid contract to the Ohio-based firm Greenwater Services, the Times reported. <\/p>\n<p>The company is owned by J.J. Cafaro Investment Trust led by John J. Cafaro, a Trump donor who owns a Palm Beach mansion near the president\u2019s private Mar-a-Lago club. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has described Cafaro as a \u201cfantastic man,\u201d the Times reported, despite his multiple run-ins with the law. <\/p>\n<p>In 2002, Cafaro pled guilty to conspiracy to bribe former Democratic Rep. Jim Traficant of Ohio. <\/p>\n<p>The congressman was convicted of 10 felony counts, and Cafaro\u2014who testified on behalf of the prosecution at trial\u2014was fined $150,000 and placed on probation, according to The Plain Dealer, the local newspaper for Cleveland, Ohio. <\/p>\n<p>Two years later, in 2004, Cafaro admitted making an undisclosed $10,000 \u201cloan\u201d to his daughter Capri Cafaro\u2019s unsuccessful run for Congress in violation of campaign donation limits. The loan was never repaid. <\/p>\n<p>After pleading guilty, Cafaro spent five days in jail over a judge\u2019s dissatisfaction with his financial disclosures. He was ultimately released and sentenced to probation and a $250,000 fine, the Plain Dealer reported. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the lenient sentences, both charges Cafaro pled guilty to were felony counts.<\/p>\n<p>The developer has supported Trump since at least 2016, when he made a $50,000 donation to a fundraising event Trump hosted that was supposed to compete with a Republican debate, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1777\">Delusional Trump, 80, Mounts Unhinged Defense of His Surrender<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, Cafaro\u2014who made his fortune developing shopping malls before later branching out into other industries including aerospace\u2014has donated more than $300,000 to political committees connected to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for both the White House and the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, told the Times the White House was not involved in choosing Cafaro\u2019s company for the Reflecting Pool job. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Interior also said the department had not been aware of Cafaro\u2019s previous support for the president. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis company was selected because they had the expertise, work force and materials\u201d needed to complete the job in time, spokesperson Katie Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not respond to the Times\u2019 request for comment. The Daily Beast has also reached out. <\/p>\n<p>A previous Times report revealed that David Schutzenhofer, the general manager of Trump\u2019s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, had advised the Park Service on the project and was in contact with Greenwater Services. <\/p>\n<p>Public records show several firms had expressed interest in providing the Reflecting Pool\u2019s water purification system, but in April, the government said the situation was urgent because the work needed to be done in time for America\u2019s 250<sup>th<\/sup> birthday celebrations, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>The contract was awarded directly to Greenwater, along with another no-bid contract for more than $13 million that went to the Virginia firm Atlantic Industrial Coatings to spread blue waterproofing material on the pool\u2019s concrete floor, which has traditionally been painted gray. <\/p>\n<p>The amount awarded to Atlantic Industrial eventually increased to $14.7 million this month. <\/p>\n<p>Underground pipes circulate the Reflecting Pool\u2019s water to a nearby building containing filter and water purifiers, and for years, the Park Service had planned to upgrade the system by adding a device that killed algae with tiny bubbles of ozone gas, the Times reported. <\/p>\n<p>Greenwater has brought temporary water-purification sites the pool but has yet to install the permanent system, which is expected this week, the Interior Department told the Times. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Workers have been trying to remove the Reflecting Pool\u2019s green slime by vacuuming out the algae and adding hydrogen peroxide to the water to kill it. As of Thursday, about half of the water was still green.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1775\">Controversial ICE Camp Medic Busted Defrauding Disabled Vets<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons, as new revelations surface about one of the contractors involved. Read more ICE Barbie Humiliated in $700M U-Turn Fiasco Trump, 80, had bragged for months about repainting the massive pool on the National Mall his hand-selected shade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Botched Vanity Project Fiasco Just Got Even More Embarrassing - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1781\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Botched Vanity Project Fiasco Just Got Even More Embarrassing - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Donald Trump\u2019s overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to make headlines for the wrong reasons, as new revelations surface about one of the contractors involved. 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