2026.04.25
Mr. Trump said he went to inspect the reflecting pool with members of the U.S. Secret Service and Doug Burgum, the interior secretary. He said one contractor proposed removing the pool's granite and replacing it with stone as part of a three-year renovation that would cost $300 million.
"I said, 'No, there's a better way of doing it,'" Mr. Trump recalled. "I said, 'What we're going to do is I'm going to call all three of these people that have worked for me in the past doing swimming pools." He said he told the contractors to "give me a good price," and one agreed to do the job for $1.5 million to $2 million.
He said the contractor began work two weeks ago and has "scrubbed" the surface of the pool.
"Now we have a nice, clean surface on which we're putting an industrial grade swimming pool topping," Mr. Trump said in a video on social media. "They said, 'What color would you like, sir? It's called American flag blue. I said, 'That's the color I want; I want American flag blue.'"