The roughly 2,000-foot pool turned green with algae<\/a> just days after the Trump administration completed its $14 million resurfacing project, coating its floor an \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow, not even a week later, it\u2019s already completely green \u2014 it\u2019s Mexican flag green,\u201d Kimmel joked Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cExperts are saying that when Trump had it painted dark blue, he made the problem worse, because the darker color retains more heat and algae thrives in warmer water,\u201d the late night host pointed out. <\/p>\n \u201cYou know, he promised he would drain the swamp. Instead, he spent 14 million of our dollars building a new one.<\/p>\n \u201cHis next step is to move St. Patrick\u2019s Day to July and claim it\u2019s green on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel continued: \u201cHe owns hotels. If there was one thing he could do, you would think it was keep a pool clean. He can\u2019t even get that right!\u201d<\/p>\n The host also played a clip of a Fox News reporter praising Trump for cleaning up the algae because \u201cno other president would do that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s right. No one,\u201d Kimmel jokingly agreed. \u201cAbraham Lincoln wouldn\u2019t have done that. He couldn\u2019t have done it. He didn\u2019t have the courage to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n In response to the algae bloom, a spokesperson for the Department of the Interior took a swipe at former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama in a statement to The Independent.<\/p>\n \u201cUnlike under Obama and Biden, the National Park Service is actually maintaining the beautifully completed Reflecting Pool,\u201d the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n \u201cTo keep the water in the Reflecting Pool not only crystal clear but also clean, we are deploying high-tech nanobubble ozone technology. This technology is actively killing algae, pathogens (e.g., E. coli), and contaminants that have long plagued the Reflecting Pool since 1922, most infamously, the Obama pool reopening that resulted in massive algae clumps taking over the pool\u2019s surface following years of construction that cost taxpayers millions upon millions only to be broken and disgusting days later.\u201d<\/p>\n The spokesperson went on to claim the National Park Service was \u201cactually maintaining [the pool] versus previous administrations.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n On Tuesday, workers outfitted in neon vests were seen dumping hydrogen peroxide into the pool.<\/p>\n A close-up of the materials showed workers were using a 12 percent concentration, which the CDC<\/a> warns can cause respiratory issues if inhaled and chemical burns upon skin contact, according to The New Republic<\/a>. At high concentrations, hydrogen peroxide may also pose a risk to wildlife, including ducks that are often seen splashing around in the pool.<\/p>\n The spokesperson for the Department of the Interior confirmed that hydrogen peroxide had been deployed, describing it as \u201ca milder treatment than chlorine,\u201d which has \u201cno harmful side effects to marine life or to the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[133721,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-domestic-politics","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jimmy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jimmy-Kimmel-mocks-Trump-over-Reflecting-Pool-algae-bloom.jpeg\")
Jimmy Kimmel mocked Trump over his $14 million refurbishment of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which quickly turned green with algae (ABC\/Getty)![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-16T202908Z_654254793_RC25VLAO18NC_RTRMADP_3_USA-250-REFLECTING-POOL.JPG\")
The National Park Service was hard at work Tuesday attempting to clean the Reflecting Pool (Reuters)<\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2279669702.jpg\")
President Donald Trump holds a photo of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool with the caption, ‘coming soon.’ After the algae was spotted last week, crews deployed hydrogen peroxide and \u2018high-tech nanobubble ozone technology\u2019 to clean the pool (Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Experts](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-06-16T203405Z_1410445403_RC24VLA3OE9J_RTRMADP_3_USA-250-REFLECTING-POOL.JPG\")
Experts said the new \u2018American flag blue\u2019 coating Trump requested may have contributed to the algae bloom by heating up the pool (Reuters)<\/p>\n