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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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"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'.

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 38 points 1 day 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 19 points 1 day 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 6 points 1 day ago

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

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry. No money in the budget for that.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And leave America unsafe?! No thank you.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 1 day 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.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

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 20 points 1 day ago

“Just like Little St. James”

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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

[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 1 day ago

s/all of Washington DC/The USA/

[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

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

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 1 day ago

Good article, nice read.

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

[-] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago
[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

true, shockingly, it might just work

and work as a nice paddling pool?

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

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

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