{"id":714238,"date":"2026-06-19T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:42:07","slug":"blue-paint-is-peeling-off-the-reflecting-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714238\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue paint is peeling off the Reflecting Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

For days, workers have been trying to rid the Reflecting Pool of algae<\/a> after a more than $14 million renovation that President Donald Trump said<\/a> was \u201cdone properly\u201d and \u201ccould last for 100 years.\u201d <\/p>\n

But now workers have another problem to contend with: peeling paint. On Thursday, a sheet of the pool\u2019s surface \u2014 painted in \u201cAmerican Flag Blue,<\/a>\u201d a color selected by the president \u2014 was seen floating in the water on the north side of the pool. It undulated in the water as curious tourists gathered, some of whom had come to see the green algae. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For days, workers have been trying to rid the Reflecting Pool of algae after a more than $14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-714238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}