Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool work comes under scrutiny: 4 things to know

President Trump’s efforts to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have not gone smoothly, despite the president maintaining he has a lot of experience with pools.

Questions have swirled about the no-bid, multimillion dollar contract given to complete the pool renovations, one of several Trump beautification projects in Washington, D.C., ahead of the U.S.’s 250th anniversary.

And now, just two weeks out from the completion of the pool’s renovation, it has seen a massive algae bloom and peeling paint.

Here are four things to know about the issues with the century-old Reflecting Pool:

Trump first announced his plans to renovate the Reflecting Pool in April, saying he would fix leaks and change the color of the bottom to “American flag blue.”

He repeatedly bashed the state of the pool, calling it disgusting and an “embarrassment to our Country” and said it needed to be done ahead of the semiquincentennial this July.

The project caught flak after the Department of the Interior awarded a no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a Virginia firm that has done work on pools at the Trump’s golf club in Sterling.

It was the company’s first federal contract.

There was some confusion over who the contractor was because the president had at first said he spoke to a man he knew about the job but later walked back the comment.

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