{"id":153059,"date":"2026-06-16T23:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153059"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:56:46","slug":"american-flag-blue-algae-turns-trumps-reflecting-pool-swamp-green-insteadunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153059","title":{"rendered":"American flag blue? Algae turns Trump\u2019s reflecting pool swamp green insteadUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostOne of President Donald Trump\u2019s pet beauty projects for Washington was supposed to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look blue, like part of the US flag.<br \/>\nEnter Mother Nature. Algae has proliferated in the water, turning it a swampy green.<br \/>\n\u201cCan you see it in my photos? Oh well, I\u2019ll just use a filter to hide the algae,\u201d said Farrah Lu, a 43-year-old tourist from China.<br \/>\nThe invasion comes just days after the completion of the pool repainting project, part of Trump\u2019s drive to put his stamp&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3357356\/american-flag-blue-algae-turns-trumps-reflecting-pool-swamp-green-instead?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostOne of President Donald Trump\u2019s pet beauty projects for Washington was supposed to make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look blue,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}