New images have captured federal employees inspecting damage in multiple spots of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after President Donald Trump’s botched $17 million renovation. Crews seen cleaning up debris from the Reflecting Pool after Trump ordered it to be drained...again. Paint peeled from the bottom, and the water turned green in the Trump administration's Reflecting Pool fiasco. The "300-yard gash" that the president alleged is not seen in an aerial shot of the drained Reflecting Pool. “Work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool.