President Donald Trump fired off an angry 400-word rant after it was revealed that his controversial renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will cost a lot more than he said.
Trump decided to put his touch on the historic site, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, late last month, as part of a broader “beautification” of Washington, D.C. He said the job, to fix the leaky joints and paint the base “American flag blue,” would cost $1.8 million. However, the New York Times has now revealed that the Interior Department plans to pay $13.1 million to the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings.
In his post at 1:12 a.m., Trump, 79, all but confirmed the Times’ reporting, which was based on federal records. By scrutinizing the inflated cost, Trump claimed the paper was “trying to justify Obama and Biden’s expensively botched attempt at fixing” the pool. “They squandered at least 55 Million Dollars haplessly trying, with no chance of success, to get the Reflecting Pool to work,” he said.
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