{"id":26104,"date":"2026-06-19T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=26104"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:52:28","slug":"drain-this-swamp-trumps-reflecting-pool-algae-debacle-gets-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/19\/drain-this-swamp-trumps-reflecting-pool-algae-debacle-gets-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Drain <em>This<\/em> Swamp! Trump&#8217;s Reflecting Pool Algae Debacle Gets Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ineptitude is only surpassed by the hilarious schadenfreude\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/the-algae-seems-to-be-winning-trumps-new-reflecting-pool-paint-is-peeling-off\/\">\u2018The Algae Seems To Be Winning\u2019: Trump\u2019s New Reflecting Pool Paint Is Peeling Off<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-donor-contract-reflecting-pool.html\">Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/trump\/owner-of-company-responsible-for-part-of-trumps-reflecting-pool-renovation-pleaded-guilty-to-bribing-congressman\/\">Owner of Company Responsible for Part of Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool Renovation Pleaded Guilty to Bribing Congressman <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/greenwater-services-reflecting-pool\/\">Astonishing irony as name of no-bid contractor behind algae-ridden pool revealed \u2013 &#8216;Can&#8217;t be true&#8217; (but it is \ud83e\udd23)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING IN VIVID GREEN\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ineptitude is only surpassed by the hilarious schadenfreude\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26141,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26104\/revisions\/26141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}