We’re All Here Together: Black, White, Red, Yellow & Brown
There is an old saying that goes back to ancient Greek Mythology, or even earlier than that, where everything a king touches turns to gold. The individual that quote refers to is King Midas, of course.
Hence, the Midas touch. Whomp! Whomp!
Obviously, there’s no King in American politics, but in Washington, DC, everything President Donald Trump lays his fat, grubby hands on turns to ashes and dust.
Maybe Trump’s the cursed UnKing, if there could be such a thing.
Trump’s latest disaster is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that is now an unsightly bright algae green, because Trump & Company stupidly decided to redo the pool in American flag blue.
What?
Not only was the decision unwise to begin with, as anyone who knows anything about Washington DC is well-aware of the headache the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been for decades simply because it’s a too shallow, unnatural body of water, sitting on top of swamp land in one of the most humid cities in the entire country.
If that sounds nasty, it is.
When the conditions are just right, the pool can look like an enticing body of placid, silvery water from a distance, reflecting the tall obelisk of the Washington monument, and the Lincoln Memorial nearby. However, up close, it was never that. The pool was dirty, often foul smelling and not something anyone would unthinkingly stick a bare toe into.