Questions surround $14M Reflecting Pool renovation as new paint peels off the bottom ^⁠89%

6/18/2026, 5:54:02 PM

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BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Availability Heuristic, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 67% saturation with 183 hits. Analysis detected 779 faulty-reasoning hits from 273 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 81.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠89% (2,506 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 88.60% of the video peer group.

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Turn now to the reflecting pool on the National Mall.

Tonight, not only has the new blue turned green, tonight reports the new paint is now peeling after $14 million was just spent to paint the pool and renovate it.

Here's John Carl.

Tonight, Washington's iconic reflecting pool is looking dirty and green.

The brand new coat of blue paint already peeling off the bottom.

All told, they spent $14 million to paint uh the the bottom of this reflecting pool American flag blue.

But if you take a look, not only has the green of the algae come back, but look at that American flag blue in the paint.

It's actually in the paint.

It's starting to peel.

It's coming up.

No comment on that yet from the White House.

The company that painted the pool had virtually no experience as a federal contractor.

It'll last for 50 to 100 years before you have to do anything.

>> By last week, the pool was blue and beautiful.

2 days later, it started to turn green.

4 days after that, algae everywhere.

Today, workers were waiting through the pool, cleaning out the algae in the dirt.

Just last night, the Trump administration said, and this is an exact quote, "The reflecting pool water is crystal clear."

Well, the crews are working hard to try to make that happen here, but we've walked all around this reflecting pool, and let me tell you, David, it is far from crystal clear.

>> All right, John Carl at the pool tonight.

John, thanks.

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Questions surround $14M Reflecting Pool renovation as new paint peels off the bottom ^⁠89%

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Questions surround $14M Reflecting Pool renovation as new paint peels off the bottom ⁠89%

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Questions surround $14M Reflecting Pool renovation as new paint peels off the bottom ^⁠89%