Along with layers of green algae, the Reflecting Pool took another turn for the worse after Trump's $14 million renovations.
The paint coating the bottom of the Reflecting Pool started peeling off, according to video and reporting online. The Reflecting Pool has already been plagued with a layer of murky green from algae blooms since last week.
The Bulwark's Sam Stein noted that the workers poured hydrogen peroxide into the pool to combat the algae and green color and that the chemical can be used for paint removal.
Stein compared the peeled-off paint to "a dead bird's wing flapping in the water," and others online piled on the mockery about Trump's costly and seemingly failed renovations.
"Trump in a nutshell, cheap, nasty bling," author and professor Phillips P. Obrien wrote on X.
"Trump has made as much a mess of the Reflecting Pool as he has made of our country and its standing in the world," professor and scientist Michael E. Mann commented. "It's the perfect metaphor for Trump and his GOP enablers, going to the next election."
"This is Trump's entire career," author Richard Kadrey chimed in on Bluesky. "Build it sh—, don't pay anyone, then blame somebody else for your f— up. He'll soon declare algae antifa and try to arrest it."