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Trump Painted It Blue. Henry Bacon Wanted It Invisible: A History of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (ghostsofdc.org)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by WesternInfidels@feddit.online to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Bacon’s idea was a mirror. A long, narrow, shallow plane of water aligned exactly between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument so that, depending on where you stood, the marble Lincoln dissolved into the sky and the obelisk multiplied into two. Roughly 2,030 feet long, 167 feet wide, 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches in the middle. The whole point of those measurements was that they should vanish.

This is a key part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool history that often gets glossed over. The pool is not a swimming pool, despite what one architect told NPR last month about “pool guys” refinishing it like Mar-a-Lago. The pool is an optical instrument.

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 53 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Par for the course. Trump loves tacky shit and has no taste, aside from not giving two shits about what anyone else wants or wanted.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 44 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I, for one, am in favor of undoing everything he does and deleting Trump from history, unperson style.

It's probably not the best way for future generations to learn from our mistakes, but it would upset him the most, and that's what I think matters.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Deleting Trump from history is not enough. In 20 years he will be brought back as a forgotten hero.

What needs to be done is to change everything to "Trump is a pedophile."

"Trump is a pedophile" needs to be on all park passes, passports, and large banners hung on federal buildings.

The Gulf of Mexico needs to be, "Gulf of Rapist Trump."

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 4 weeks ago

I think we need a museum like the holocaust one as a cautionary tale of idiocy. I agree verything needs to be tagged with pedo related to him.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

We'll leave the epstien files, that should be enough.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry. No money in the budget for that.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We can drop, like, 5 fewer bombs on brown people.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And leave America unsafe?! No thank you.

[–] alltomorrowsregrets@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 weeks ago

"This is a key part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool history that often gets glossed over." 🤦‍♂️ It's right there in the name 'Reflecting Pool'.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump told reporters his contractor had talked him out of his first color choice. He had wanted turquoise, “like in the Bahamas.”

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 23 points 4 weeks ago

“Just like Little St. James”

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

Trump and his guys would just call you a fucking woke nerd for having such ideas about aesthetics.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 20 points 4 weeks ago

The idea behind all reflecting pools are mirrors. trumps just a low class idiot. dur dur. water should be blue.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

he is such a rotten piece of shit. he ruins everything. i wish he would just fucking go away.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

They should tear down all of Washington DC and give the land back to the Algonquin Nacotchtank

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago

and the algonquin give it to the Beringians

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

s/all of Washington DC/The USA/

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the correction I can't believe I slipped

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

I genuinely hope Trump has his face added to Mt Rushmore. It would be so funny and I personally do not give a shit about this monument. IMO it's like Hans Lands getting the swastika carved into his forehead. It's the same but for a whole country.

[–] TheRiskiestBiscuit@reddthat.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Wow… What a history. All these times I’ve been to DC and stood at the reflecting pool and I never knew it carried such a tale.

[–] ranoss@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Good article, nice read.

Another blot on our country from Donny the Dunce, but I learned some really interesting history! Thanks!

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago

"The mud underneath has not moved" bullshit. It's been sinking.

[–] Steve@startrek.website -3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It will still do that…

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

true, shockingly, it might just work

and work as a nice paddling pool?