A ‘preservation’ group filed a lawsuit to block President Trump from painting the Reflecting Pool blue.
“The vivid blue coating will fundamentally alter the visual and experiential character of the pool and the broader Lincoln Memorial Grounds landscape,” the group said in a complaint.
“The new coloration will cause the pool to resemble a large swimming pool rather than the reflective civic landscape it was designed to be, distorting the experience of the site for the millions of visitors who come to it each year,” the complaint said.
This is the same nonprofit group that sued to stop the construction of President Trump’s privately-funded White House Ballroom.
Last month, the president announced he is renovating the “filthy” Reflecting Pool and said it will be colored “American flag blue.”
“You’re going to end up with a beautiful, beautiful reflecting pool, the way it’s supposed to be,” Trump said to reporters last month. “Much better than it ever was, actually.”
Trump’s renovations cost an estimated $1.5 million compared to the $34 million Obama spent on the Reflecting Pool.
Last Thursday, President Trump drove through the Reflecting Pool to see the progress and greet the team of contractors.
WATCH:
President @realDonaldTrump drives through the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial to see the progress of the project and meet the hardworking team behind it pic.twitter.com/igN5rcJFNL
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) May 8, 2026
Politico reported:
Preservationists are asking a federal judge to immediately halt President Donald Trump’s ongoing project to resurface the reflecting pool on the National Mall.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in federal district court in Washington, a nonprofit group contends that the National Park Service violated the National Historic Preservation Act by beginning to repaint the bottom surface of the landmark in a bright blue color.
Trump has repeatedly touted the project as a money saver and ridiculed President Joe Biden’s administration for overseeing a renovation of the pool that Trump contends left it unattractive and in disrepair. Last week, he took his motorcade through the drained pool to survey the work and stopped to praise the team applying the blue coating.
Trump said the gray color was “never good” and described the new color as “American flag blue.”
However, the new suit describes the precious, darker color as an intentional part of the contemplative mindset the pool was intended to cultivate.
“The dark grey, achromatic basin was not incidental to the design. It was the design,” the suit says, pointing to a 1999 Park Service report that said “the dark color of the tile created the illusion of greater depth and a more profound reflection.”
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