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I'm not sure I want to know more about the reflecting pool, AND I have to ask, did the motorcade drive thru the pool in May? How / why did they accomplish this? What the actual fuck?
Edit: Apparently they did: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trumps-motorcade-driving-across-lincoln-221519461.html
The question remains, why did they do this?
The best answer I can give, with my years of objectivity gathered data, is that the president is both very stupid, and a malignant narcissist.
Hope this helps.
You forgot too lazy to walk
Well see that's the thing about that area, it's designed so people can easily walk around. So in order to check out how the construction is going, you naturally have to form a motorcade and drive through the construction, as opposed to like, walking out of the White House during lunch one day and going down to look at it.
Growing up I remember people disagreeing with Clinton and Bush, but like dudes were still taking jogs around D.C./parks or bike riding around for exercise.
It seems crazy to think they couldn't just put the old butter in a golf cart and drive him by real quick, like sure the secret service would still run with or w.e, but unless they really think every minute of every day someone is waiting outside the White House for the one time he comes outside to get him it seems overkill.
Also if we got rid of the secret service and made all of our positions take public transit everywhere, politicians would focus more on helping as much of the population as they can instead of focusing on specific shareholders who will prop their campaigns.
Reportedly, he wanted to "inspect" it - but only by driving over it, not, y'know, actually getting out and looking at it or anything.
Btw, in case you haven't heard, he's building a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House. Because, y'know, he hasn't caused enough damage to the place already.
I'm sure the inspection was the pretext he gave. But we all know he did that because he thought it would look good for the cameras.
Or he just thought it would be fun to drive on a national monument. He does strike me as someone who gets a kick out of getting away with doing things most people wouldn't be allowed to do.
Yeah... Like fucking kids, as reported in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM)
Trying to explain why Trump does anything is a fruitless endeavor. Yet somehow he repeatedly manages to fail upwards.
Agreed, thanks for the reminder. smh.
I think further that needs to be noted though, the motorcade and claims of "a knife" are both moot.... The shoddy work from the get go for this no bid contract is the actual thing to blame. If I recall actual pool experts have said over and over again that, were the job done anything close to right, that neither knives nor armored cars should have damaged it... the fact is they just threw on one cheap slap of paint in one layer, on something that should have had several layers worth. Or they could have just left it as it was and not made everything 100x worse.
I dunno about armored cars… they are pretty heavy and might damage it from the weight, even if done correctly, but I’m also not an expert.