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Company hired in earlier Reflecting Pool renovations declined to work for Trump because his plan was ‘unfeasible’: report 58%
By Rhian Lubin0%
6/26/2026, 5:19:19 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Anecdotal, and Recency Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 47.6% saturation with 148 hits. Analysis detected 569 faulty-reasoning hits from 311 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.9% and a BS Rank of 58% (9,187 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 58.00% of the article peer group.
A construction company previously hired to work on the blighted Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool under the Obama administration turned down work for the Trump administration’s renovation because the plans were “unfeasible,” according to a report.
President Donald Trump’s $14 million project, which was supposed to be completed in time for the nation’s 250th birthday celebrations, has run into major problems in recent weeks.
The water turned green with algae blooms days after the work was “completed”, dead ducks have been recovered, and blue material has been peeling off from the bottom, prompting Trump to blame vandals and arrest several people.
New Jersey firm Sika Corporation provided construction and sealing products for work on the pool in 2010 under the Obama administration, which spent $34 million at the time, but problems persisted, according to CNN.
Two employees told the network that the company was approached in March to support Trump’s renovation, but the deadline of July 4 and the demand that the pool floor had to be blue rendered the job “unfeasible.”
The company’s previous work on the pool and its decision to turn down the contract following a routine feasibility and risk assessment “could further enflame mounting criticism that the project was rushed and potentially improperly completed,” according to CNN.
Rhino Linings was ultimately awarded the contract and supplied the spray-on lining used to refinish the pool.
The company’s vice president recently told Politico that the renovation would not be complete in time for the July 4 celebrations.
It comes as Trump claimed this week that a “300-foot-long gash” had been carved into the bottom of the pool and “chemicals have been illegally placed in the water.”
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