{"id":406,"date":"2026-05-09T16:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:57:19","slug":"trump-gave-6-9m-no-bid-contract-to-his-pool-guy-to-repaint-reflection-pool-under-urgent-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Trump gave $6.9M no-bid contract to his \u2018pool guy\u2019 to repaint reflection pool under \u2018urgent\u2019 exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-iran-war-b2972725.html\">President Donald Trump <\/a>used a government exemption to give a $6.9 million no-bid contract to his \u201cpool guy\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-lincoln-memorial-pool-renovation-b2963909.html\">repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool<\/a> to an ocean-blue color after complaining it \u201cnever looked great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump used a government exemption to give a $6.9 million no-bid contract to his \u201cpool guy\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}