The Reflecting Pool was green with algae just days after Trump’s $14 million resurfacing project was completed

The Department of the Interior said the algae bloom turning the pool green was being “vacuumed up as we speak.”

Algal blooms have hit the site, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, after a $14.2 million repair project.

Green algae reappeared in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool days after Trump's $13 million renovation, prompting questions about the project's effectiveness.

Algal blooms have hit the site, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, after an expensive repair project

Administration had claimed algae at Lincoln Memorial pool would be cleared after the renovation, but it has proliferated amid warm weather

President Trump previously vowed to paint the Reflecting Pool an ‘American flag blue’

Trump had been celebrating the completed paint job just days before D.C. residents noticed that it had turned green.

Experts had warned that Trump's plan could make the problem worse. Now, there are signs those concerns were justified.

U.S. President Donald Trump believed he had a solution to the reflecting pool's algae problems: painting its bottom a particular shade of blue. Less than two weeks after the…

President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom

President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom

Not just aesthetically but biologically

Trump can't be happy that tourists can't see his handpicked "American flag blue" paint.

The late-night host said this was one job that should've been right up the president's alley.

Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Donald Trump's inability to fix the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C.

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The Reflecting Pool was green with algae just days after Trump’s $14 million resurfacing project was completed

Jimmy Kimmel joked President Donald Trump just built a \

Trump wanted the pool to be American flag blue, but instead, he got algae bloom green.

Satellite data shows that the 2,000-foot pool that the president just renovated is having its worst summer for algal blooms in five years.