Trump says he'll renovate 'filthy' reflecting pool on National Mall - BERITAJA

President Donald Trump touted plans Thursday to overgarment the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool successful an "American emblem blue" hue, 1 of the president's latest building efforts to refashion authorities buildings and monuments successful Washington, D.C.

Trump said he was inspired to oversee renovations aft a friend visited from Germany and noted its decay.

"He said, 'it's filthy, dirty. The h2o is disgusting looking. It's not typical of the country,'" Trump recalled during a White House arena Thursday connected supplier prices.

Trump posted a video speaking about the renewal of the complete 2,000-foot-long excavation on Truth Social, soon earlier his White House arena pinch reporters.

Trump said the renewal will return 2 weeks and costs $1.5 million.Will Oliver / EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images

"Right now, it's sewage nary h2o successful it because it was successful unspeakable shape. It was filthy, dirty, and it leaked for illustration a sieve for galore years," Trump said successful the video. "So I really went over, went pinch Secret Service and a group of people, and I took, took a look astatine it."

The president said location were first plans to region the granite successful the excavation and switch the stone, but that process would person costs $300 cardinal and taken much than 3 years to complete.

Instead, Trump said he contacted his ain backstage contractors to cleanable the chromatic and past overgarment it successful a caller color, which he described arsenic "American emblem blue."

"We scrubbed the aboveground of the existing granite that's been location since 1922. We past grouted each of the granite, fixed it up," Trump said successful the video. "It took about 2 weeks, and now we person a nice, cleanable aboveground connected which we're putting an business people swimming excavation topping."

Trump said the task is expected to costs betwixt $1.5 and 2 cardinal dollars and will beryllium completed "long earlier July 4" for the country's 250th celebration.

"In different mates of weeks, we're going to person the about beautiful reflective excavation betwixt the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial that you've ever seen," Trump said astatine the White House.

Trump has pledged to overhaul the excavation successful the past. The president said successful a station connected Truth Social past period that he and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum were "working connected fixing the perfectly filthy Reflecting Pool betwixt the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument."

The pool, the tract of humanities events specified arsenic Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I person a dream" speech, had its last awesome renewal successful 2012 in a $34 cardinal task that lasted almost 2 years.

Trump's efforts to revamp the reflecting excavation travel alongside a number of different building projects spearheaded by the president crossed Washington, D.C., including his plans to build a $400 cardinal ballroom and subject bunker successful the East Wing of the White House and a awesome renewal of Kennedy Center.