{"id":1831,"date":"2026-06-20T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2026-06-20T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:42:12","slug":"trumps-green-slime-nightmare-is-spawning-surprising-souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Green Slime Nightmare Is Spawning Surprising Souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s $14 million Reflecting Pool fiasco has entered its souvenir era.<\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks after the president\u2019s massively misbegotten $14 million overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was officially turned blue, it has already erupted in a record, multiyear bloom of scummy algae, turning the water green instead of the president\u2019s promised \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d Then the bottom of the pool began sloughing off blue paint flaps, which also acted as a sealant, that floated to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1829\">ICE Barbie Commuted Life Sentence of Man Now Tied to Teen\u2019s Death<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Now souvenir hunters are snatching pieces of the paint as keepsakes, further exposing the cement beneath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>CNN reporter-on-the-scene Tom Foreman dutifully declared in a broadcast Friday that he was not putting his hands in the water to avoid making the situation worse. But treasure hunters were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been tourists coming along, tearing off pieces to take as souvenirs,\u201d Foreman said. \u201cNow, did they cause this problem? I don\u2019t know. Maybe. Did they exacerbate it? Maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What \u201cwe do know is that all the tourists who are coming by are seeing a lot of it,\u201d Foreman added. They\u2019re saying it looks \u201cbad,\u201d and they \u201cfeel for the ducks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1827\">Don Lemon Points Finger at White House\u2019s \u2018Biggest Leaker\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deterioration of the expensive overhaul highly touted by 80-year-old Trump\u2014which was specifically aimed at changing the color and eradicating, not increasing, the algae\u2014continues to trigger controversy. <\/p>\n<p>The din surrounding Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool vanity project grew after it was revealed earlier this week that part of the job was awarded in a no-bid contract to a company\u2014the aptly named Greenwater Services\u2014owned by a Trump supporter and two-time felon who pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman and violating campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>The blue sheets in the pool began surfacing this week as workers began scrubbing the bottom of the pool with hydrogen peroxide, or pouring it directly into the water, in a bid to combat the algae. The chemical may have been too caustic for Trump\u2019s American flag-blue paint. In fact, hydrogen peroxide is sometimes used to strip paint from surfaces. Or the paint may have sloughed off anyway if it was poorly applied.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1825\">Trump Floats Bonkers New Theory for Reflecting Pool Disaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of the Interior has insisted that the pool is \u201cabsolutely clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It very clearly is not, Foreman noted.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s $14 million Reflecting Pool fiasco has entered its souvenir era. Just two weeks after the president\u2019s massively misbegotten $14 million overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was officially turned blue, it has already erupted in a record, multiyear bloom of scummy algae, turning the water green instead of the president\u2019s promised \u201cAmerican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","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 Green Slime Nightmare Is Spawning Surprising Souvenirs - 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=1831\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Green Slime Nightmare Is Spawning Surprising Souvenirs - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donald Trump\u2019s $14 million Reflecting Pool fiasco has entered its souvenir era. 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