American flag blue? Algae turns Trump’s reflecting pool swamp green instead
One of President Donald Trump’s pet beauty projects for Washington was supposed to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look blue, like part of the US flag.
Enter Mother Nature.
Algae has proliferated in the water, turning it a swampy green.
“Can you see it in my photos?
Oh well, I’ll just use a filter to hide the algae,” said Farrah Lu, a 43-year-old tourist from China.
The invasion comes just days after the completion of the pool repainting project, part of Trump’s drive to put his stamp...
Trump's Reflecting Pool Turns Green With Algae
- Trump administration uses hydrogen peroxide and tiny bubbles against algae in Reflecting Pool The Independent —
- Swamp Thing: Algae mess with Trump’s pool project The Straits Times —
- Late Night Wades Into the Reflecting Pool’s Algae Bloom The New York Times —
- Visitors react to green reflecting pool 📹 NBC News — · 45sec
- US combats pool algae with bubbles The Korea Herald —