Newsweek readers debate the green pool, the handling of the algal bloom and how the renovation compares with earlier efforts.

The ​paint on Washington's newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday was ‌peeling away from the bottom and into the algae-tinted water, less than two weeks after President Donald Trump announced the job's completion.

President Trump said on Friday evening that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was vandalized, amid reports of an algae bloom and peeling paint just two weeks after the multi-million-dollar

Paint is peeling off the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., just two weeks after President Trump announced work to paint the pool “American Flag Blue” had been completed.

Days after an algae bloom turned Donald Trump’s newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool green, the ‘American flag blue’ paint has begun to peel away. The US president announced the completion of a $14.

Already plagued by a massive algae bloom that turned its water green, the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool faces a new setback. Workers are now grappling with the landmark's new

Photos appear to show peeling of the “American Flag Blue” coating in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as the National Park Service works to control and remove an algae bloom that turned the water green following the Trump administration’s $16 million repair,

Just days after the Trump administration completed millions of dollars in renovations on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to make it American flag-blue, residents and online users noted it had turned a phosphorescent green.