The reflecting pool is inconsequential

[edhopper]

in the larger scope of all the horrible things Trump is doing to our country.
BUT, it is such a good, illustrative example of how badly he handles everything. It is a visible symbol of incompetence, greed, hubris and lawlessness.

[Srkdqltr]

1. True.

[radical noodle]

2. John Heilman made a list

of all the ways the reflecting pool illustrates the whole trump second term:
1. trump's obsession with a trivial thing while more important things are being ignored
2. trump's self-aggrandizing belief that if he does something big it will make him be remembered as the one who did it
3. trump's unearned self certainty that he knows everything better than anyone else
4. trump's lack of regard for and even hostility toward expertise and his environmental ignorance
5. trump's self-dealing grift (I've got a pool guy!)
6. trump's amateur hour incompetence
7. trump's lashing out when it goes wrong
8. trump's scapegoating and blaming others for his failures
9. trump's then adding conspiracy theories to once again avoid blame (vandals damaging the pool)
10. trump's use of the legal and police system to shore up his claims
11. trump's demonization of the press for reporting his failures

The dead duck in the reflecting pool is the cherry on top of trump's shit sundae

[gab13by13]

4. John Heilmann did that on Deadline Whitehouse yesterday.

[radical noodle]

7. Oh shoot... did I get the name wrong?

Thanks! I'll edit. sheesh!

[MadameButterfly]

3. Seriously. For the money he could have hired top experts

stayed out of it himself, and gotten credit for a job well done. But he has to get grift on everything. It seems to be a compulsion. Has anyone told him he can't spend it all, and he can't take it with him?

Also, it's all he's really interested in. Remodelling the White House and the Capitol. Maybe dropping some bombs here and there. He never was really interested in running a country.

He doesn't believe in expertise because he has never had any, and he thinks all you have to do is sell the facade. I'm guessing he thinks that's what everyone else is doing too. Like finding out last week that there's a b in dumb.

[mopinko]

10. if he had gone through the proper channels,

generals services wd have found the right ppl at the rt price to do the job rt the 1st time.
that’s what they do, and u they r there.

[PatSeg]

14. He is one of those people

who will pick the grift over a legitimate means every time. Somehow, he feels the need to be getting away with something, a feeling he can't get from following established rules, even if it would benefit him more.

Basically, he is just a criminal at heart and likes it that way.

[RB77]

5. It is also a symbol of -

The “Free Market” lack or regulation, oversight, science denial, and “the war on expertise. A large part of the Republican mantra.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. It's an easy-to-understand metaphor for the entire shitshow.

[LisaL]

8. I disagree.

We have here a "no bid contract" awarded for millions. Waisted funds. Now everything has to be redone.
They are also arresting people for the supposed pool vandalism.
Imagine if Biden did any of that.

[Wounded Bear]

13. I suspect you read the thread title and not the body of the post...

[themaguffin]

9. It's worse when you look at how blatantly corrupt it is

[malaise]

11. and the ever present

Coverup

[crud]

12. Sometimes it amazes me

what catches fire with the American public. The debate about whether the reflecting pool is worthy of attention with all the other major failures of tRump is irrelevant. When people make it a big deal, it's a big deal. The public knows corruption and incompetence, and this story illustrates it perfectly.

[MineralMan]

15. Yes. It's an easily understood example, as well.

That's important.

[kentuck]

16. And attempted cover up...

I might add.

[justaprogressive]

17. It's just another thing

WE HAVE TO FIX!