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Trump Painted It Blue. Henry Bacon Wanted It Invisible: A History of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (ghostsofdc.org)
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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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[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 46 minutes ago

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

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

🤮

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

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

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 46 minutes ago

It will still do that…

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

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 1 points 9 minutes ago

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."

[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

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

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