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"President Trump invited the men who renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to the Oval Office, and every one of them walked out with a signed hat and a presidential challenge coin.
"White House aide Margo Martin posted a video from the Oval Office:
Months of work, condensed into seconds. Watch the transformation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as crews drained, repainted, and refilled one of America's most iconic landmarks ahead of a busy summer season in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/HBoJUx6n0t
— EarthCam (@EarthCam) June 9, 2026
. . . "The Reflecting Pool drew its share of attention along the way. In May, Trump visited the site, and a reporter asked him why he was bothering to clean it up. He said workers had hauled out 11 or 12 truckloads of garbage and that the nation's capital had no business looking like that. "That's not what our country is about," he said. "Our country is about beauty, cleanliness, safety, great people, not a filthy capital." Later, when Getty Images captioned the blue waterproofing coating being applied to the pool basin as "paint," the White House Rapid Response account responded: "It's not paint, morons.” Full article here...
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