Trump: Reflecting Pool work wasn’t simply ‘paint job’

President Trump dismissed criticism of the recent Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations on Friday, rejecting claims the project amounted to merely a “paint job.”

“The Great Reflecting Pool, that stretches between The Lincoln Memorial and The Washington Monument, just opened to ‘rave reviews’ but, maliciously or not, some say, like The Washington Post, it was a ‘paint job,’” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“This was not a paint job. This was highly sophisticated material, industrial strength, that could last for 100 years, applied by very talented people, many of whom came from the Great State of Oklahoma, where I won 77 out of 77 Counties, THREE TIMES, the only President to ever do so,” he continued. “The material is thick, strong, flexible, and has a natural, beautiful color, the dark blue of the American Flag!”

The Trump administration has defended the project as part of efforts to maintain and modernize aging National Mall........

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