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Trump spent millions of taxpayer dollars refurbishing DC's algae -filled reflecting pool.And today we have an algae -filled reflecting pool.This is just another day.If you're one of those people who thought this weekend's UFC at Palooza on the White House lawn was just too gross a spectacle to look at, well, you might want to continue averting your eyes.

The newly renovated Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.

It's in better shape than it was when it was built.

But just days after completing that $14 million renovation, algae is again blooming in the reflecting pool.

Bad news for taxpayers, but great news for politicians who love to swim in contaminated waters.People call me the Michael Phelps of dysentery!Yes, after promising Americans that his blueification of D .C.'s reflecting pool would cost taxpayers $1 .8 million, or as people who tell the truth call it, $13 .1 million, visitors to our nation's capital can now enjoy a brand new algae -filled basin.Consider it like a throwback to the way things used to be back in April.when America had 13 .1 million more dollars to our name.

But not everyone sees it this way.

Well, I don't think that you feel too badly for him considering you're standing just a few feet away talking pretty loudly about what a shit gig he has.Buddy, either grab a broom and hop in the muck or save your commentary for when you're not with an earshot of the guy scraping algae off the concrete in 90 degree heat.But, not surprisingly, it's not just the thank god this ain't my job guy who's mildly irked by what's going on in DC.

It's hard to believe the reflecting pools showed off its new dark shade of blue just days ago.Now the water is green.

Yes, how hard to believe.that a project Donald Trump championed as a great success has turned out to be an abject failure.I'm struggling to process this moment in much the same way I'm trying to wrap my head around how this fine citizen, who in January ended his post -fight interview by saying, P .S., Britney Griner is a man, was invited to the White House, where he ended his post -fight interview by saying, Michelle Obama is a man. I mean, how did these horrible things happen?Who could have possibly foreseen such an offensive occurrence?

But how did we get here?Millions of taxpayer dollars spent only to get a subpar result?I guess we can at least take comfort in knowing that we've got the best price for this job regardless, since federal law requires most contracts to be competitively bid to ensure taxpayers get the best value and avoid favoritism and corruption by requiring agencies to evaluate bids using documented criteria.So that's at least a bright spot in this dark cloudy water.

These are no -bid contracts.The government is supposed to let multiple vendors bid on jobs like this so the taxpayers get their best bang for the buck.In this case, the Trump administration used sort of a special power to block out all competition and hand this job directly to a firm that President Trump says is close to him.He says this is a company that worked on the swimming pools at his golf club in Northern Virginia.And so what happens when you give a contract directly to somebody with no competition, you don't really know you're getting the best deal.You don't know that you're getting the best person for the job.

Well, hold on.I'm as uncomfortable with these no -bid contracts just as much as the next guy, but I'll bet it was Donald Trump's business acumen that pointed him in the right direction of this company.Surely they've had some previous federal contracts that make them experts in this field.

The contractor for this project, your reporting also showed, had no previous federal contracts.

Right.Well, surely these contractors have worked on these types of pool -based jobs before.

It's not clear this is a swimming pool contractor at all.Their website is moreabout lining pipes and culverts and fuel tanks.It's clear this is a very different project than the ones that they appear to be used to.

Ah, so it's not just our reflecting pool that's green.Awesome.So, no -bid contracts to Donald Trump's inexperienced buddies.I can't wait to hear how Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, explains this one away.

I think you're implying that if you have an expedited process that somehow there's something untoward going on.

The Times said the company doing the reflecting pool has a 20 % profit margin.Standard is 6 to 12 % going through the process.

Yeah, and that was a, again, that's, I always say fake news is too simple, but - Is that not true?Well, it's true that someone can say that.

Sure, it's true in the way that things are factual, but does that really make it accurate?I hate to be this guy, but how did we not get a great deal on this reflecting pool project when I seem to remember a few people bragging about a certain someone's dealmaking bona fides?

He is a master dealmaker.He's a negotiator.President Trump is the bridge maker.He is the dealmaker.

I'm different than other presidents.I'm a dealmaker.I've made deals all my life.I do really well.I make great deals.

To quote the great Jerry Seinfeld, What is the deal?Trump did absolutely nothing.He handed a fat check to his friends with our money and we got screwed.If anything, that's the deal.Donald Trump peddles a subpar product to consumers, i .e.

the American people, he continues to get rich, and we all have to suffer.And if you'd like to lodge a complaint about this, might I suggest using a different device than this one?

The phone looks different from how it was originally advertised.The original language on the website said the phone would be made in the USA, language that has since been scrubbed from the website.saying American proud design with an American flag that has only 11 stripes.

Hey, come on now.Can you really expect the president's patriotic cell phone to have the correct number of stripes?Don't answer that.The reality is that this man is no dealmaker.He replaced high inflation with higher inflation.He replaced high costs with higher costs.

He replaced high gas prices with higher gas prices.He replaced a high Seth Rogen with a higher Seth Rogen.

No one even thought that was possible.

Wasting taxpayer dollars and labeling it a win is not some bug in the Trump administration.It is a feature, as J .D.Vance so artfully articulated this morning when he graciously updated us on the Iran deal.

They say they're going to get $24 billion in frozen funds if they hit certain benchmarks.Is that true?

Well again Ed, we're open to a lot of things that are on the table, but that $24 billion just doesn't appear anywhere in any of the texts that we've talked about with the Iranians.One of the things these hardliner elements in their country are going to do is misrepresent the deal so that they can sell it to certain elements of their domestic audience.

Wow.Can you even imagine what it must be like to live under that kind of untrustworthy leadership?Thank God our government would never misrepresent their deals just to get their base on board.But if there was one soundbite I saw today that so perfectly embodied this administration's hopes and dreams, I think it'd have to be this one.Uh, until you look close.Exactly.

Until you look close is Donald Trump's whole strategy.They are praying you don't look close.Because from afar, this administration may look like a group of accomplished professionals, but if you look close, it is just that easy to see that it is a murky mess of corruption and lies.and when it comes down to who's to blame It's one guy.I couldn't agree more before you go I'm very excited to announce that I've written a new book titled the day after how to wield power in a post Trump world The book explores what is in my opinion the single most important theme that we're dealing with in politics today and moving forward power Thanks so much for supporting Independent Media.