The beauty and significance of the original Reflecting Pool was

[Jrose]

that it reflected the monuments, the flora, the sky above it... and the people walking around it.

Now it's an opaque, single-colored rectangle that hardly reflects anything around it.

It's now an expression of the lack of transparency and refusal of the current regime to reflect the diversity and true state of its people and the environment.

[efhmc]

1. There is nothing he cannot destroy.

[mobeau69]

2. They don't do reflection.

[lame54]

7. Just projection

[liberalla]

10. Ha!

Good one!

[malaise]

3. As devoid of reflection

as Donvict’s duncified brain

[Cheezoholic]

4. I always thought it was about "reflection" internally of what this country is about and whats held it together

The one time I was able to visit it that's what I saw and felt. And the fact it is bookended by those two monuments "reflects" the two most tumultuous (the beginning was fraught with turmoil and ideological division internally) and dividing points in our history and further makes one reflect on the things that continue to divide us so we may be aware of how far we need to go, how hard each of us needs to work and be responsible for, to keep the experiment alive. But that's just me.

[Jerry2144]

5. Doesn't the Felon have nosferatu-looking people

Like Miller and noun-verb-911? Maybe they did away with the reflections so we can’t see that they’re all undead?

[chowder66]

6. It looks like an airplane strip.

[infullview]

8. Clearly it will have to be restored to its original state

And we, the tax payers, will be on the hook for the cost. We should do like FDR did with the CCC to provide labor to restore the monuments without the huge cost. Also, that monstrosity gold leafed bronze statue has got to be cleaned off. That’s an affront to the artist and the people who commissioned the the work

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. His attorney said in court that they could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty. Maybe that was a hint of things to come.

Trumps administration is pulling up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of scientific buoys from the Ocean for no reason. They were used for researching changes in water temperature and wave activity and serve also as an early warning to changes in weather far out off our shores.

They just want to show their disdain for people who aren't wealthy uninformed assholes like themselves. Like these rich people who poison or cut down trees on their neighbor's property or on neighboring government owned land just because it ruins their view.

[31j20b3]

11. I'm not a fan of the "us flag dark blue

but the pics I saw on line today were from hundreds if not thousands of feet above it.

It's my experience, and if my experience is bad you can tell men, but, my experience is a reflection requires that light bounce off the surface of water at an angle. Looking straight down doesn't give much of a chance for reflected light from objects near the water to create an image in our eyes.

We have lots of lakes and ponds in WI, so I'm not completely without experience in reflections from shorelines. But usually those images seem to always be at a relatively low angle

I'm not believing that Trump spent time or thought figuring out a way to prevent natural reflections

[HighFired49]

12. When the Monster is out of office

The next administration needs to sue him for destruction of, or defacing of public property. Confiscate his properties if he doesn't have the cash to restore the abominations he has created. He had no right/permission to do any of the awful damage to our monuments that he has attacked!! He turned that which was stately into gaudy piles of crap.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

13. It's now the Deflecting from Epstein Pool.