Washington: Trump has the Reflecting Pool on the Lincoln Memorial renovated with swimming pool flooring | EUROtoday

US President Donald Trump is having a swimming pool flooring added to the well-known Reflecting Pool on the Lincoln Memorial, a physique of water within the coronary heart of Washington. Workers on Saturday had been lining the underside of the reflecting pool with blue materials usually utilized in swimming swimming pools.

Trump introduced his plan on Thursday. The physique of water the place civil rights activist Martin Luther King gave his well-known “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 is “in terrible shape,” the president and longtime actual property agent stated in a video distributed by the White House. The Reflecting Pool, which is one among Washington’s landmarks, is “dirty and dirty” and has “leaked like a sieve for many years.”

According to Trump, the work to line the pool base with swimming pool surfacing will take round three weeks and price 1.5 million {dollars} (1.3 million euros). He rejected a plan to resume the stone ground of the pool, which was accomplished in 1923, as a result of it will take three years and price $300 million.

Instead, he contacted an organization that had labored for him prior to now: “I have built more than 100 swimming pools in different buildings,” the president informed reporters. “In the end we will have a beautiful, beautiful reflecting pool, as it should be. Much more beautiful than it ever was,” he introduced.

Trump has been placing his architectural stamp on Washington for a while now. Among different issues, he had the historic east wing of the White House torn down and plans to construct an enormous ballroom as an alternative. He additionally desires to have a triumphal arch constructed.