By
Margaret Hartmann,
senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012
It’s a big day for Donald Trump. While construction crews will have to work around the clock to finish the “Arc de Trump” before the end of his term, and the White House ballroom still looks like a rubble pit, he’s actually completed one of his major Washington, D.C., renovation projects. After months of work, construction crews have finished repainting the basin of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and it was refilled this week.
The president has been showing off the project all morning. First, he shared this fawning X post from Howard Lutnick to his Truth Social account:













