The soap opera continues. Just a few weeks after carrying out rehabilitation work that cost more than 14 million dollars (about 12.25 million euros, at the current exchange rate), The water is tinted green because the algae have invaded the sheet of water.
Besides, a problem that is causing the material to end up floating. Beyond these incidents, the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial pond was involved in controversy from the beginning, since the US Government decided award the contract to a handpicked companywithout following the standard procedure in this type of contracting.
The objective of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, was that The sheet of water will show the “American Flag Blue” to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary. But the algae and the defective paint have made the pond appear in a totally different way than the president intended.
This Monday, Trump has published a message on his social network, Truth Social, in which he has threatened ten years in prison for those who damage the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial. “Of all the numerous statues and fountains we have rebuilt, renovated, cleaned and repaired, it is the only one that has been vandalized”said the American president.
“We will have to empty the water,” Trump acknowledged
In that sense, the North American president has stressed the following: “Remember that The destruction, or even attempted destruction, of these works is punishable by ten years in prison.. And it will be applied to the fullest extent of the law!”
Regarding the peeling paint, Donald Trump has assured that the pond “will soon recover its good condition. “We will have to empty the water to repair (…) two small areas.”
