Donald Trump recently attended a farmers’ roundtable in Wisconsin, speaking about renovation projects, including Washington, D.C.’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. During his address, he kept referring to the landmark as a pond. Trump also showed the crowd a printout of the height of the pool, comparing it to most skyscrapers in the city.
Donald Trump brags about DC pool renovation in Wisconsin
Donald Trump went to Wisconsin for a farmers’ event, where he shifted the conversation to speaking about the renovation project he has undertaken to make the capital better. He talked about fixing fountains before boasting about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Wrongly referring to the monument as he spoke about its size, he added, “Then we had the reflecting pond, 2,500 feet, massive, longer than a building. We have, we have a stat here that’s sort of great.”
He then pulled out a poster, comparing the length of the pool with skyscrapers in the city. “Can you guys see this? Okay, because I’m too cheap to put up like a projector. Look, so that’s the pond if it were standing up. Here’s your Sears Tower, Empire State Building, World Trade Center. Look, it’s double or triple the size in terms of area,” Trump explained.
Calling himself a “very good builder,” he revealed that he has built a lot of swimming pools in the past, claiming that his development does include this necessary build. Therefore, he had more knowledge of pools and wanted to capitalize on it.
“I said, ‘Why can’t we put the wonderful material, which is thick, pasty, beautiful like rubber, but industrial strength? Why can’t we use it? And let’s pick the color blue from the American flag,’ which is what we did, and that is the most beautiful thing that you’ve ever seen,” he added. He continued to boast about its design and construction while revealing that they just opened it recently (via The Daily Beast).
Originally reported by Shazmeen Navrange on Mandatory.
