Donald Trump: "They covered it [the reflecting pool] in this really hard layer of strong stuff that if you had a knife - and I don't want to give anybody any ideas, you couldn't cut it. It's so hard and so perfect it's like glass..."
Add Hydrogen Peroxide to kill the algae because blue is the perfect colour to encourage algal growth and... the water source is already contaminated. Something they have never really addressed. Th HP sauce then starts to degrade the epoxy layer. (the epoxy layer to fix the leak which was then painted).
10 days later...
DT: "it's been vandalised, like someone took a knife and cut it all the way along..."
Fox News: announces that it is an offence to vandalise the Reflecting pool and that people shouldn't be doing it and that Donald Trump is trying to spruce up Washington DC because apparently, it needs it and people are just hell bent on trying to destroy the good that he's doing.