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John Sipher
@johnsipher.bsky.social

“documents and interviews establish how a first-time contractor was paid millions of dollars to apply a novel solution designed by a golf club manager to a national landmark…’It’s like asking the museum guard to restore a painting in the Met.’” (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...

nytimes.comHow the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (Gift Article)A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.

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Clarissa Oakes 🇺🇦
@clarissaoakes.bsky.social

Love it. The amount of self-inflicted damage is a joy to read. So much documentation, so many receipts and accounts, so much investigation in order to inform us of what most people already know: Trump is a moron (when he's not being an idiot). The "master builder" and Tariff bits made me lol.

John Sipher
@johnsipher.bsky.social

“This was highly sophisticated material, industrial strength, that could last for 100 years,’ Mr. Trump wrote on social media on June 5…It began peeling within the week.”

MuttDad
@heavymetalmike.bsky.social

The reflecting pool coating is a metaphor for Trump himself. Appearing, at first, shiny and new but after a second or any stress is easily shown to have cracks and mental problems (ok threw that last one in)