Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no.
Specifically, it balked at two requirements – the Trump administration wanted it done by July 4, and the pool bottom had to be blue, according to two employees with the New Jersey-based Sika Corporation, which provided the concrete construction and sealing products for a 2010 renovation project to the Reflecting Pool.
According to the two employees, who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be identified, both demands made the job “unfeasible.”
Probably objected to the requirement to kick back half the project’s funding to Trump.
Trump probably has all the kickback he needs from the Iran deal.
The point of a game of monopoly isn’t to have a comfortable cushion of cash, the point is to drive everyone else into abject poverty and own the board.
Even so, part of $14m is a rounding error after his other grifting. Doesn’t quite compare to bouncing the stock market every other week or the $300b Iran deal or the bribe lawsuits that the media companies had to get the judge to not dismiss so they could “settle”.
Imagine begging a judge to not let you win a case.
That’s exactly what I said. It’s not about the money.
He runs in all the circles where all the money in the universe is never enough.