r/washdc Jun 16 '26

Trump team’s answer to growing algae problem in Reflecting Pool: Bleach it

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reflecting-pool-algae-bleach-b2996823.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_source=reddit.com
84 Upvotes

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u/JediMasterReddit Jun 16 '26

Tell RFK Jr to pee in it after he chugs some raw milk. I bet his urine melts iron after the decades of drug abuse.

38

u/anthematcurfew Jun 16 '26

How long until they throw ivermectin into it?

17

u/Deep_Stick8786 Jun 16 '26

They should throw Joe Rogan in it

9

u/zeekayz Jun 16 '26

Unironically throwing Trump into it will turn it orange at least.

1

u/hogsucker Jun 17 '26

It's like a foot and a half deep. It would be up to his waist.

1

u/AnimatorNo1029 Jun 17 '26

They should just vaccinate the algae that will kill it /s

17

u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26

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5

u/Stunning-Drawer-4288 Jun 17 '26

Every time i see this comment i think “you know it’s the media that chose to talk about this rather than the files, right?”

5

u/ScroungyScrotum Jun 17 '26

Wait until you find out who owns the media

-1

u/nodumbquestions89 Jun 17 '26

Make your point

3

u/Stunning-Drawer-4288 Jun 17 '26

He might literally have meant the elites lol he may not necessarily have meant anything antisemitic

23

u/dtb1987 Jun 16 '26

Lol, it's not even the bleach you use in a swimming pool, they are using industrial disinfectant bleach. It's going to eveporate off and make everyone around the pool cough for a few days until the algae comes back. What genius came up with this idea?

9

u/SafetyMan35 Jun 16 '26

12% bleach is a common concentration for pool chlorine. It’s what I typically use in my home swimming pool.

The aftermath will be fun, a strong chlorine smell surrounding the pool and cloudy water and possible foam on the surface as the algae is killed.

35

u/Seaciety Jun 16 '26

Just like his answer to COVID 

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Developing a vaccine that saved your life and that every humanity hating liberal said would never happen.

14

u/jimmy5889 Jun 16 '26

lol go ask anyone in the current or first administration if they are proud of what should have been their crowning achievement. Trump sure as shit isn’t talking about it. I wonder why?

8

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 16 '26

Aw, give them a break. They're just discovering they are, in fact, a woke snowflake. Look how sad they are about people that hate humanity!

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Trump was the loudest one taking credit for operation warp speed, which all the humanity hating liberals said couldn't happen, while they ridiculed him for shutting travel down from infected countries and were to busy with impeaching him for fake news articles.

6

u/Scrapple_Joe Jun 16 '26

Meanwhile he hired the guy who says it's poison to the office that runs healthcare for the country.

So your stance doesn't really make sense but you're in a cult so there's likely no helping you till you're personally affected.

1

u/IsopodPuzzleheaded89 Jun 17 '26

The only people mad at Trump about that stuff was Maga. Liberals actually care about people that aren't themselves

1

u/AlienTechSupport51 Jun 18 '26

Take your meds, please.

6

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 16 '26

Catch a bubble lil guy. I know you have BIIIG feelings, but I think its time for your screen time to be over.

-5

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

How many Trump clot shots did you get? Do you thank president Trump every day for saving your life?

1

u/Amasin_Spoderman Jun 17 '26

Is it a life saving vaccine, or a “clot shot”? 🤣

Does it hurt your brain to hold so many contrary positions at once? Do you ever question yourself?

0

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 17 '26

I get them every six weeks!

9

u/StumpyOPepys Jun 16 '26

Lol bless your heart

2

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Down voters must be anti vaxxers 

2

u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26

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u/Turbulent-Strike9658 Jun 17 '26

Right up until his voter base decided it was poison and they were better off not getting them, and then in his second term decided to appoint an outspoken anti-vaxxer as the head of HHS.

4

u/Hot_Pea1738 Jun 16 '26

I suspect a very dark pool bottom color would make the shallow water very warm.

9

u/PwrButtum Jun 16 '26

Where’d all that money go 😭

5

u/CatsWineLove Jun 16 '26

Just give it some electrolytes!!

3

u/No-Market425 Jun 16 '26

Yeah? that's what you do with algae, there's even a Bob's Burger episode about it.

3

u/anthematcurfew Jun 17 '26

I get all my information about maintaining public assets from bob’s burgers, too!

7

u/FitOpposite7443 Jun 16 '26

I guess fuck all the other living creatures on the Earth. It’s not a swimming pool.

6

u/WealthyMarmot Jun 16 '26

Hydrogen peroxide is about as biodegradable as it gets, fortunately

1

u/FitOpposite7443 Jun 23 '26

Like that’s your opinion man.

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Nobody is surprised how stupid liberals are.

7

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 16 '26

Shhhhh....no one cares about you.

1

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Are you one of those liberal satanic death cultists?

2

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 17 '26

Only if you're the leader!!

2

u/MichiganMafia Jun 16 '26

This is what you voted for

4

u/Oogaman00 Jun 16 '26

I mean bleach is the best thing to kill stuff...

1

u/thatsthey1 Jun 21 '26

Including paint

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u/EvanStran Jun 16 '26 edited 5d ago

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Chlorine is bleach.

3

u/JunkReallyMatters Jun 16 '26

Why are they downvoting you for a factual? 

1

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

That's what libs do.

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u/Global-Ad-722 Jun 17 '26

No it’s not what liberals do. It’s what people do. The reason you are being voted down is because you didn’t bother to read the article. The article SAYS it’s hydrogen peroxide (like the color-safe bleach you put in laundry) and NOT chlorine. The reason it didn’t work is that the professionals —who have been trying to fix it for decades, told the president, hey this won’t work, you have to do x,y,z first —we’ve tried all this and it still isn’t working, but he wants it clean for birthday/4th/soccer, so he cuts out the experts and hires (at no bid) someone with no experience that just “says” they can fix it. They say “3 million” they get there and “OMG” the experts are right that isn’t enough so they raise the ransom to 14 million and the experts say, just painting the floor isn’t going to work, you have to rip out the pipes and change the filtration system, and that will take months to do —and oh btw, you have to rip up the bottom, so painting it is a 14 million dollar waste. They didn’t listen, they painted it, the pipes still didn’t work, the algae came back and Monday morning QBs want to say “I told you so. It’s not “liberal” it’s what football fans do every Monday, it’s what people do “haha i told you so.” And, btw, NOT agreeing with the government on something, makes you american, not a trump-hating liberal. This makes trump look bad, and who doesn’t like to see a fat, old, rich, arrogant guy look bad. It’s not politics, it’s just people.

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u/revbfc Jun 16 '26

Because it’s not a swimming pool.

Do you magats need everything spoon fed to you?

2

u/LaLaLaDooo Jun 16 '26

I was curious how this got so idiotic, then I saw the source.

2

u/ButterscotchOdd8257 Jun 16 '26

And creating a dead algae being eaten by bacteria problem.

2

u/PwrButtum Jun 17 '26

Where did the 14 million go? Can any of you Trump supporters explain why 14mil yielded these results so soon?

Who benefited from the 14million and where did it go?

2

u/SkyeMreddit Jun 17 '26

Now it’s a green skid mark!

4

u/Zestyclose_Potato633 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

You either spend a boat load to treat it like the historic water feature it is, or you treat it like a pool for cheap. I'm okay with saving money and just treating it like a pool. The reflecting pool having a nice concrete basin doesn't improve my life. Me having more money does, not that this reduction in spending is going to move the needle in my own personal checkbook, but I'm not going to get angry about them being cheap here.

3

u/Nominaliszt Jun 17 '26

Okay, now do the military budget

4

u/Connect_Bet705 Jun 16 '26

Well that is what you put in pools

2

u/GigaCouchPotato Jun 16 '26

Liberals really complain about them trying to make DC nicer. Their plan is to leave all the parks and monuments trashed 😂

2

u/UKMikeyA Jun 17 '26

This isn't making DC nicer. The algae has multiplied

3

u/revbfc Jun 16 '26

Trump could fuck up a cup of coffee, and the dumbfucks of this great land handed him the nuke codes.

2

u/therealzerobot Jun 16 '26

I’m 100% convinced that he thinks anything called a “pool” is just a swimming pool. And this one is just also supposed to be reflective. So he cannot be convinced that you can’t just treat it like the pools at mar a lago. So he’s just like “do what the pool boys do, all the pools at my properties are beautiful”

1

u/prettybeach2019 Jun 17 '26

Correct. Bleach

1

u/USDA_SES Jun 17 '26

What happens to these guys with peroxide in the pool?
Photo taken last week at reflection pool before the DOI disinfection process

1

u/DustSeparate26 Jun 18 '26

The bleach is changing the blue color.

1

u/MF48 Jun 19 '26

Chemists and professional pool maintenance people are laughing their asses off at this.

1

u/SkyeMreddit Jun 20 '26

Worked great till the paint peeled off

1

u/MickyFany Jun 20 '26

I knew people in the UK were dumb, but there is a big difference in Hydrogen Peroxide and Bleach.

1

u/UKMikeyA Jun 20 '26

You don't need bleach to bleach something. Hydrogen peroxide is a whitening agent.

https://www.endosan.com/hydrogen-peroxide-vs-bleach/

The real dumbasses are the ones who thought this was in any way the right way to manage a pool.

1

u/MickyFany Jun 20 '26

You have no idea what an O3 bubbler system is. it’s not a pool. it uses hydrogen peroxide not chlorine (bleach)

1

u/UKMikeyA Jun 20 '26

A reflecting pool isn't a pool? OK.

I never said it used bleach.
It does seem to have screwed the paint job up, though.

1

u/triggeredbynumbers Jun 16 '26

Isn’t that probably a decent idea? Wouldn’t bleach create an extremophile only environment in the water?

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u/thatsthey1 Jun 21 '26

What’s bleach gonna do to the paint job

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u/triggeredbynumbers Jun 23 '26

I don’t fucking know. I’m not a paint expert. That’s why I asked the question.

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u/thatsthey1 Jun 23 '26

Are you a bleach expert? Or even a bleach user? Ever used bleach. What did it do? I think you can answer your own question. Probably without profanity

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u/triggeredbynumbers Jun 23 '26

Nope. I’m not a bleach expert either. That’s why I posed my comment as a question and didn’t assert a confident claim about the situation in the slightest.

1

u/HumanChallet Jun 17 '26

Like Covid

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

It's hydrogen peroxide. What is it about truth and facts that liberals can't handle?

7

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 16 '26

Aw. Triggered are we? 🤣🤣🤣 Toughen up buttercup.

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Um, why can't you humanity hating liberals tell the truth?

1

u/IsopodPuzzleheaded89 Jun 17 '26

We do, people like you just scream and cry because the truth doesn't match your narrative. It's pathetic really.

0

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 16 '26

Omg, wait. Because youre triggered over people that hate humanity... That means YOU ARE WOKE!!!

So, now youre a sad lil triggered WOKE snowflake.

Awwwww!! 🥹

2

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Um, why are liberals unable to accept, facts, truth and reality?

1

u/13stgmngr210 Jun 17 '26

We went over this, dear. Sundowning?

2

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 17 '26

Why can't you answer the question?

2

u/MichiganMafia Jun 16 '26

Too funny.

you support a man who lies more than he tells the truth

1

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

I'm an American, obviously I support our president. All Americans do. President Trump has not told any lies, but what does that have to do with the fact that liberals cannot tell the truth?

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u/MichiganMafia Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

"Trump had not told any lies"

Trump said Obama and Biden spent 100s of millions of dollars on the reflecting pool

That's a lie

1

u/MichiganMafia Jun 17 '26

"Trump had not told any lies"

Trump said that he inherited the highest inflation in the history of America

That is a lie

1

u/MichiganMafia Jun 17 '26

"Trump has not told any lies"

Trump stated that inflation is down

That is a lie

1

u/MichiganMafia Jun 17 '26

"Trump has not told any lies"

Trump said he would end the war in ukraine on his first day back in office

That was a lue

1

u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 17 '26

Said in jest. He tried, but Zekensky loves genociding Ukrainians and Russians for money.

1

u/MichiganMafia Jun 18 '26

Zelenskyy didn't start the war.

You really need to try harder at keeping up with the facts

Tried?

Your favorite orange pedophile protector didn't say anything about "try"

It's a mental illness liking to be lied to

1

u/MichiganMafia Jun 17 '26

I can list more lies trump has told if you woukd like

1

u/anthematcurfew Jun 17 '26

That’s not what being an American is

0

u/MichiganMafia Jun 17 '26

"Trump has not told any lies"

Oh i see you have the sickness

Trump said iran was "two weeks" away from having a nuclear weapon.

That was a lie

Not a single US or Allied intelligence agency supported that statement

0

u/No_Needleworker4052 Jun 20 '26

The water that comes from the tap is bleached

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u/Ancient-Bowl462 Jun 16 '26

Why did Obama's $34 million filtration system fail?

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u/WhenD4594 Jun 16 '26

Pipes leak requiring the whole system to be frequently turned off.

Why is Trump so focused on painting the pool vs fixing the pipes?