The Trump administration spent $14.8 million painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool an "American Flag Blue." See why the pool is green again.

Workers completed a Trump administration directive to paint the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool "American flag blue" in early June 2026.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been about two weeks since President Donald Trump announced that work to beautify the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was done. But since then a saga of science, nature and ...

Trump's $16 million renovation to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to turn it "American flag blue." See how it really looks now.

I went to the Reflecting Pool because, as a certain American naturalist once said of a different pond, I wished to “live deliberately” and “see if I could not learn what it had to teach.” I doubted that it had much left to say.

Seen through algae-laden green water, a tear in the recently applied sealant can be seen on the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Photos and videos showed dark blue flaps both at the bottom of the pool and floating on the surface, even as the ...