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Trump’s multi-million dollar reflecting swamp

The reflecting pool outside the Lincoln Memorial is now filled with algae after Donald Trump's administration spent millions of taxpayer dollars on renovations to make it “American flag blue” in time for the nations 250th celebrations.

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