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For days, workers have been trying to rid the Reflecting Pool of algae after a more than $14 million renovation that President Trump said “could last for 100 years.” But now workers have another problem to contend with: peeling paint.

washingtonpost.comThe blue paint is peeling off the Reflecting PoolAn "American Flag Blue" paint sheet was seen floating on Thursday as workers cleaned algae after Trump's $14 million renovation.

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Peeling paint in the reflecting pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump presidency. No-bid, big-bucks contract given to chum for unnecessary vanity project, with obviously incompetent execution. Now expect denial, excuses and shifting blame.

Trump's busy trying to slap together new tasteless monuments and redo, in full garish, egocentric tackiness, as many existing monuments as he can, before 2029. If he succeeds, we'll be left with hugely expensive, crumbling souvenirs of Trump's terrible taste and diseased mind.

And as pathetic as this is, it will be far from the worst of the enduring damage he and the republican political cult have caused this country. Tacky monuments can at least be easily, though expensively, repaired. A shredded constitution and international distrust will be harder to repair.

Some guy with a mustache, back in the day, said, his Reich would last 1000 years... Some guy with orange hair, nowadays, says, his Reich "could last for 100 years"...