Trump’s Reflecting Pool fence could be up until January 2027, docs show

“A blue-tinted basin is more appropriate to a resort or theme park,” Charles Birnbaum, founder of the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation, said in May, when the paint job was announced.

The organization filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the pool’s redo, arguing that the Trump administration never bothered to have the project reviewed as mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act.