Trump says ‘filthy’ Lincoln Memorial pool will be made ‘American flag blue’ - BERITAJA

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to screen the Lincoln Memorial‘s reflecting excavation successful “American emblem blue,” marking the latest summation to his efforts to revamp respective authorities buildings and monuments.

Trump, successful a video shared connected Truth Social connected Thursday, called the much than 100-year-old monument, which he noted was the tract of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, “filthy dirty” and said it “leaked for illustration a sieve.”

The 2,000-foot-long building is presently quiet arsenic it undergoes cleaning for the America 250 celebrations.

Trump said the monument wasn’t moving and hadn’t been for galore years, adding that he had visited the tract pinch members of the Secret Service to measure its information and, based connected what he saw, was not successful an acceptable state.

“Right now, it’s sewage nary h2o successful it because it was successful unspeakable shape,” Trump said successful the video.

The president revealed that location were plans to region the granite lining of the excavation and switch it pinch chromatic elements, but that the task would person taken 3 years and costs US$300 million.

Instead, Trump said he is speaking pinch backstage contractors, whom he had hired successful the past to build swimming pools, to cleanable the stone, and adhd a topping that would make the aboveground “American emblem blue.”

Much of the activity has already been done, according to the president, who said, “We scrubbed the aboveground of the existing granite that’s been location since 1922. We past grouted each of the granite, fixed it up.”

“It took about 2 weeks, and now we person a nice, cleanable aboveground connected which we’re putting an industrial-grade swimming excavation topping,” he continued.

The renewal task is expected to costs up to $2 million, and he said and will beryllium vanished successful “two weeks” alternatively than 3 years.

Trump has said he would refinish the excavation before. In a March Truth Social post, he said he and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum were “working connected fixing the perfectly filthy Reflecting Pool betwixt the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.”

“This activity was expected to beryllium done by the Biden Administration, but Sleepy Joe doesn’t cognize what ‘CLEAN’ aliases due attraction is — The President and Secretary do,” he added.

The memorial’s past awesome renewal was successful 2012 and costs $34 cardinal complete 2 years, according to Beritaja.

The restoration of the Lincoln Memorial follows the preliminary approval of plans to conception a 250-foot-tall “Triumphal Arch,” the revamping of the Kennedy Center, which will adjacent aft July 4, and the demolition of the White House East Wing to build a ballroom pinch an underground bunker, though the second faces extensive legal and nationalist pushback.