Did Trump pick the right blue for the Reflecting Pool? We asked a pool guy.

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Democracy Dies successful Darkness

Old Glory Blue? American Flag Blue? Let’s bespeak connected each the shades, portion a national justice mulls “aesthetic injury” successful the president’s latest decorating flourish.

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Workers connected May 18 overgarment the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool bluish astatine the directive of President Donald Trump. (Tom Brenner/Reuters)

Last Thursday successful a Washington courtroom, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols spent the day trying to parse conscionable however bluish “American Flag Blue” could be.

This is the shadiness that President Trump has selected for the caller overgarment presently being applied to the Reflecting Pool, the aqueous nexus betwixt the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.