Subject: Lincoln pool improvement recognized abroad
… now. Der Spiegel sees plenty of symbolism:

… Trump promised to solve the problem with his usual remedy—money, money, money. Without public bidding process, he commissioned a specialized company to coat the concrete in the "color of the American flag." He personally pushed the project forward; experts were obviously never consulted. …

It now stands as a monument to his botched activism: 600 meters long, 50 meters wide.

The problem may only be symbolic, but in time-tested fashion, it is simply denied. Eyewitness reports or newspaper accounts? "Fake news!" Instead, as the responsible Department of the Interior declared, the sad soup is in truth "crystal clear." The pool cleaners, they claimed, were currently merely removing "dead algae" that "lie on the bottom of some areas of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool—just as the destroyed Iranian Navy lies at the bottom of the Persian Gulf."