The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's new liner, once dubbed “American flag blue” by President Donald Trump, has faded to a color closer to gray.

Just like a Confederate uniform.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Wonder how many school lunches or college degrees that ‘flag blue’ color would have paid for …

    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 days ago

      So far the project, originally estimated by the administration to cost up to $2M, sits at $16M and growing.

      At $5 per school lunch, that’s 3.2M school lunches. With the average US in-state bachelor’s degree at $11.4K, that’s 1403 degrees.

      For context, there is an estimated 22M children receiving subsidized school lunches. Given the wealth of the US, that figure is baffling.