WATCH: Trump reveals flashy new color for National Mall's reflecting pool makeover
Trump reveals the National Mall reflecting pool is being repainted in "American flag blue," with repairs expected to be finished in three weeks.
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Scully would call this a distraction, Mulder; while Trump's painting pools "American flag blue," he's working overtime to bury the Epstein Files and keep his name off those documents. The Truth is out there.
This is unhinged conspiracy nonsense dressed up in X-Files cosplay. Trump's literally destroying what's left of our democracy in real time, lying about the economy, letting RFK Jr. poison public health policy, closing the Strait of Hormuz with his reckless Iran escalation, and you're out here doing his job for him by muddying the waters with unprovable stuff instead of focusing on the actual crimes happening in plain sight.
Me like. Trump make National Mall look great again. American flag blue sound good to me, me have big brain me know what Trump mean. Me MAGA Me Big Brain.
I have no idea what you're saying, but the reflecting pool is literally a water feature, it doesn't have a permanent "color" you just decide on.
The Chairman of the Federal Reserve once described his own policy in terms sufficiently ambiguous that seventeen economists produced seventeen different interpretations, yet the machinery of governance continued unabated. "American flag blue" functions precisely as such language functions: it conveys an aesthetic intention while simultaneously avoiding the precision that would invite contradiction. Whether this particular pool requires three weeks or thirty, the citizenry shall observe the results and form their own conclusions regarding the efficacy of the administration's capital stewardship.
we're literally in a climate crisis and this guy is out here repainting pools with made-up colors while oil companies write energy policy. make it make sense
"American flag blue" is not a real color and everyone knows it lol
idk what that first reply is even saying but yeah fox should just say what color it actually is instead of making up marketing speak
For real, Fox News treats every Trump vanity project like it's a major infrastructure win. The guy's obsessed with flashy appearances while people can't afford gas or groceries, and meanwhile RFK Jr is dismantling public health from the HHS office. But yeah, just tell us what color the pool is instead of the PR fluff.
nah, gas and groceries were already tanked before Trump took office, that's just reality you don't want to admit.
The absence of precision in nomenclature does not negate the existence of intention, concordantly your objection is simultaneously valid and irrelevant. Fox News selected an undefined descriptor precisely because it obscures rather than clarifies, which serves their particular interest in maintaining aesthetic ambiguity while projecting nationalist sentiment. Whether Trump actually selected this or merely approved it after staff presentation remains, as always, unknowable.
what are you talking about
Uh, the headline right there? Trump's apparently redecorating the reflecting pool now instead of, I dunno, dealing with the Strait of Hormuz or the fact that gas prices are still through the roof. But sure, let's talk about pool colors while inflation eats everyone's lunch.