Seth Meyers points out the irony of Trumps reflecting pool turning green
Donald Trump’s newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool cost almost $15 million, but it’s still managed to turn green.
Seth Meyers took “A Closer Look” at the project during Wednesday’s Late Night, particularly the fact that the pool is currently not the Bahamas-like turquoise or “American Flag Blue” the president hoped for. Instead, it’s green, thanks to algae. And like Jimmy Kimmel, Meyers pointed out the irony.
“Trump gave out a no-bid contract to a friendly company with an inflated profit margin for a project no one asked for, and in the process he took an iconic American institution and turned it puke green. This brings us to a segment called ‘The Metaphor Is Way Too Obvious’,” said Meyers.
“You guys, the metaphor is way too obvious. I mean, do I really need to spell it out for you? My whole job here is to come out and make ridiculous metaphors, but real life is already a metaphor. He said he was going to ‘drain the swamp’ and he literally drained a pool or lake or small ocean and created an actual swamp.
“At this point, I might as well just quit and move to the Bahamas, so I can swim in a pool that’s actually turquoise.”
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