After D.C.'s Reflecting Pool gets repainted, visitors ask: What changed? ^26.5%

NPR - By Rachel Treisman - 6/5/2026, 9:12 PM

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WASHINGTON — Water is flowing back into the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, after a controversial painting job kept it closed for weeks. And to many onlookers, it doesn't look much different. "The pool gets completed at 4 o'clock and the water will start to flow in … and it's going to be beautiful," President Trump told reporters in... more