2026-08-02T11:25:39.399Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/politics/reflecting-pool-renovation-problems-what-we-know
美国司法部周五表示，为赶在唐纳德·特朗普总统任内完成林肯纪念堂反思池翻新工程，相关方实施了“仓促且糟糕透顶的施工”，为这座华盛顿地标性建筑耗资1400万美元的翻新工程背后的问题提供了新细节。
此次司法部的表态与特朗普和内政部长道格·伯根数周来的说法形成尖锐矛盾。二人此前称反思池遭破坏是 vandal所为。华盛顿特区联邦检察官珍妮娜·皮尔罗将此次失败的安装归咎于恶劣天气、测试失败和运输延误。
但特朗普和伯根仍在指责所谓的 vandal 破坏导致池衬恶化、藻类大量滋生以及翻新后池水变绿。
“我百分之百不认同华盛顿特区联邦检察官珍妮娜·皮尔罗对反思池的看法，我不知道她在想什么。在我看来，这纯粹是 vandal 破坏事件，”特朗普周六在Truth Social上写道。伯根也在社交媒体帖文中点名驳斥了该调查结果，称“证据确凿， vandal 多次对反思池造成破坏”。
这些新细节来自司法部周五提交的文件，文件宣布将撤销对前奥运选手戴维·赫恩的起诉，赫恩此前被指控破坏该地标建筑。
以下是我们了解到的反思池翻新工程出问题的经过：
特朗普于3月底启动反思池翻新工程，称该水池“肮脏不堪”，并承诺要将其打造成“美轮美奂的景观”。
在随后的几周内，特朗普扩大了工程范围并下令进行外观修改，包括将池底漆成“美国国旗蓝”。这一油漆变更立即引发了一个非营利组织提起诉讼，该组织认为该工程违反了联邦法律，要求内政部在开工前完成相关咨询程序。
这位总统还要求工程必须在7月4日美国建国250周年纪念日之前完工。这一加急时间表导致成本飙升——几乎是最初180万美元预估成本的7倍。
根据司法部提交的文件，这座面积近34万平方英尺（约相当于6个足球场大小）的水池的衬里安装工程于5月5日启动，由弗吉尼亚州的大西洋工业涂料公司负责，该公司是此次大型工程的唯一承包商。
该公司在翻新工程中使用了两种涂料产品——Rhino 406和Pipeliner 5000。
文件显示，春季降雨严重延误了工程进度，阻碍了特朗普政府期望的加急安装进程，施工团队曾一度不得不抽排雨水以确保涂料干燥。
施工团队仍在喷涂衬里材料，但因天气导致的延误引起了布朗建筑服务公司一名员工的注意。该公司负责监督大西洋工业涂料公司的施工进度。这名员工在5月7日写道：“看起来AIC公司的进度明显落后于计划。”
当AIC公司主要涂料之一的Rhino 406涂料用完时，延误进一步加剧。一名质量控制检查员发现已完工的衬里部分出现“起泡”现象，并要求进行修复。
藻类滋生与衬层剥落
6月9日，施工团队完成了现场最终检查并重新注满池水。注水一天后，CNN首次在部分区域观察到藻类，水池底部靠近水边的地方就能看到藻类。一名在水中进行清洁作业的工人告诉CNN，该物质是藻类。
工程启动之初，政府派遣一家公司使用价值170万美元的“臭氧纳米气泡装置”清除藻类、细菌和其他化学物质。该公司格林沃特服务公司此前曾向CNN介绍其工作时间表，透露为满足总统的7月4日最后期限，不得不做出一些调整。
6月11日，国家公园管理局的一名工程师注意到反思池衬层出现剥落现象。根据法庭文件，这名员工在发给国家公园管理局和内政部人员的电子邮件中写道：“只有最上层的衬层剥落了，这层很薄，不会影响衬层的整体强度。”
这名公园管理局工程师表示，承包商将剥落区域归因于“在喷涂周边接缝的聚脲（一种弹性涂料）时产生的过喷”。该员工指出，他担心这种“过喷”可能导致1至2英尺宽的区域“极易剥落”，但承包商不愿确认这是否存在风险。就在这封邮件发出8天后，前奥运选手赫恩就被指控在该周边区域进行剥落作业。
vandal破坏指控
随着媒体纷纷报道反思池衬层剥落的消息，特朗普首次将泳池的整体问题归咎于 vandal 破坏。
“我们在美丽的反思池遭遇了一些严重的 vandal 破坏问题，”特朗普在Truth Social上写道，并未提供任何证据。他称藻类“75%已经清除”，“遭到破坏”的区域将在6月底前修复。
6月20日，特朗普表示他已与承包商会面，并承诺尽快修复损坏，称 vandal 使用刀片划开了“250英尺长的切口”，并向池中倾倒了“具有腐蚀性和破坏性的化学物质”。
独立日庆祝活动结束后，泳池再次被排空以进行维修。根据司法部的文件，负责监督AIC公司施工进度的承包商对反思池进行检查后，将剥落现象归因于喷涂过量以及涂料无法与表面粘合。就连AIC公司也表示，“99%可能出现故障的部位”会在翻新工程结束后的几周内显现出来。
特朗普在7月再次坚称相关指控，抱怨媒体对泳池问题的报道，坚称衬层“被刀或美工刀划开”，甚至藻类大量滋生也是“ vandal 造成的”。
伯根在7月5日接受CNN《国情咨文》节目采访时表示，政府“完全可以”证明损坏是 vandal 所为，并称有照片佐证这一说法。但他回避了一个问题，即这些照片是否显示有人在破坏泳池。
皮尔罗和她的检察官团队表示，直到7月17日泳池被排空且辩方专家对现场进行检查后，他们才能全面了解损坏程度。
就在当天，特朗普在Truth Social上猛烈抨击所谓的 vandal，称他们是禽兽。“反思池遭到疯狂 vandal 的严重破坏，现已排空以修复巨大的切口，”特朗普说道，并补充道，“法庭上的人渣有望受到最严厉的起诉。”
在要求提供更多关于泳池翻新工程的文件后，皮尔罗的办公室表示，相关信息“表明安装过程仓促且存在缺陷，衬层在安装过程中多次出现故障，整个反思池的衬层出现大面积剥落”。
距离工程开工近三个月后，特朗普周一表示，反思池“几乎准备好再次开放”。
CNN的凯特琳·波兰茨对本文亦有贡献。
What a new Justice Department filing says about the ‘botched’ Reflecting Pool renovation
2026-08-02T11:25:39.399Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/politics/reflecting-pool-renovation-problems-what-we-know
The Justice Department on Friday said the rush to complete President Donald Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool led to “hasty and botched work,” shedding new light on the problems behind the Washington landmark’s $14 million facelift.
In delivering a sharp contradiction to weeks of claims from Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that vandals destroyed the Reflecting Pool, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro attributed the bungled installation to bad weather, testing failures and shipment setbacks.
Trump and Burgum, meanwhile, continue to blame alleged vandals for the deteriorating pool lining, algae blooms and green water that appeared after the renovation.
“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM,” Trump wrote Saturday on Truth Social. Burgum also dismissed the findings in a social media post, saying that “The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool.”
The new details come from the DOJ’s Friday filing announcing it was dropping the case against former Olympian David Hearn, who was accused of vandalizing the landmark.
Here’s what we know about what went wrong with the Reflecting Pool:
Trump set out in late March to renovate the Reflecting Pool, which he described as “absolutely filthy” and vowed to make it “look gorgeous.”
In the weeks that followed, Trump expanded the scope of the project and ordered cosmetic changes, including painting the bottom of the pool “American flag blue.” The paint change immediately sparked a lawsuit from a nonprofit group, which argued the project violated federal laws requiring the Interior Department to complete a consultation process before beginning the work.
The president also wanted the project to be complete before America’s 250th birthday on July Fourth, an expedited timeline that the administration acknowledged drove up the cost — nearly seven times as much as the initial estimate of $1.8 million.
Installation for the Reflecting Pool lining began on May 5 by Virginia-based firm Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the sole contractor for the extensive project, according to the Justice Department filing.
The firm used two coating products — Rhino 406 and Pipeliner 5000 — in the renovation of the nearly 340,000-square-foot pool (that’s about the size of about six football fields).
Construction was significantly stalled due to spring showers, which hindered the expedited installation process the Trump administration had hoped for, at one point requiring crews to pump out the rain water to allow the coating to dry, according to the filing.
Crews continued to spray coats of the lining material, but the delays, largely due to weather, caught the attention of an employee with Brown Construction Services, a contractor charged with monitoring Atlantic Industrial Coatings’ progress. “It appears AIC is significantly behind schedule,” the employee wrote on May 7.
Delays ballooned when AIC ran out of Rhino 406, one of the primary coatings, and a quality control inspector flagged “blistering” in the finished portions of the lining and called for repairs.
Algae blooms and lining peels
On June 9, crews completed a final inspection of the site and refilled the pool. One day after it was filled, CNN first observed the presence of algae — in some areas. It could be seen from the water’s edge on the bottom of the pool. A worker who was vacuuming in the water told CNN the substance was algae.
At the onset of the project, the administration dispatched a company to use a $1.7 million “ozone nanobubbler” to clear the algae, bacteria and other chemicals. The company, Greenwater Services, previously walked CNN through a timeline of its work, revealing some accommodations were needed to meet the president’s July Fourth deadline.
By June 11, a National Park Service engineer’s attention was drawn to peeling of the Reflecting Pool lining. “Only the top layer of liner has peeled. This is very thin and will not impact the strength of the liner,” the employee wrote in an email to NPS and Interior Department personnel, according to the court documents.
The Park Service engineer said the contractor attributed the peeled area as an “overspray” from spraying the perimeter joint with polyurea — a type of elastic coating. The employee flagged his concern that the “overspray” could lead to a 1-to-2-foot strip that is “vulnerable to peeling,” but said the contractor would not confirm whether this was a risk. The area along the perimeter is where Hearn, the former Olympian, was accused of peeling just eight days after the email.
Claims of vandalism
As media reports swirled about peeling liner at the Reflecting Pool, Trump first claimed that the pool’s broader problems were a result of vandalism.
“We’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, without citing evidence. He said the algae was “75% gone” and that the “vandalized” area would be fixed in late June.
On June 20, Trump said he met with contractors and vowed to repair the damage as quickly as possible, saying vandals used a blade to cut a “250 foot long gash” and poured “corrosive and destructive chemicals” into the pool.
Following July Fourth celebrations, the pool was drained again for repairs. The contractor charged with monitoring AIC’s progress inspected the Reflecting Pool and attributed the peeling to overspraying and the coatings’ inability to bond to the surface, according to the DOJ’s filing. Even AIC said that “99% of anything that was going to fail” would show up within a couple of weeks of finishing the renovation.
Trump doubled down on claims in July, complaining about news reports on the pool and insisting the lining “was slashed with a knife, or a box cutter” and that even the algae blooms were “caused by vandals.”
Burgum, in a July 5 interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said the government could “absolutely” prove the damage was caused by vandals, and that there were photographs supporting the claim. But he dodged a question about whether those photographs showed anyone damaging the pool.
Pirro and her prosecutors say they weren’t able to fully view the extent of the damage until July 17, after the pool was drained and a defense expert inspected the site.
That very day, Trump railed against the alleged vandals on Truth Social, calling them animals. “The Reflecting Pool, so badly damaged by Deranged Vand, has been emptied as the massive slash gets repaired,” Trump said, adding, “The Scum in Court will hopefully be prosecuted to the MAX.”
After requesting more documents on the pool’s renovation, Pirro’s office said that information “indicated a rushed and flawed installation process, with repeated failures of the lining during the installation process, and extensive peeling of the lining throughout the Reflecting Pool.”
Nearly three months from the outset of construction, Trump said Monday the Reflecting Pool is “almost ready to open” once again.
CNN’s Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.
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