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Trump's Reflecting Cesspool mirrors a much more festering mess
Shiny Surfaces, Rotten PipesThe DistractionWhile Iran and inflation were actually pressing, Donald Trump fixated on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, its paint, its scale, its symbolism, and his own power to rename cosmetic failure as national triumph. The basin was freshly sealed, briefly blue, and then green again. The source story is simple enough: a vanity project that kept sliding back into algae while the administration tried to sell the public on restoration.That is the first tell. When power chooses a spectacle over a structure, it is usually because the structure is the…
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