Size matters a lot to Trump.  It’s the only metric he’s interested in.  Superlatives are his stock trade when talking about himself and, in the negative sense, about others.

So let us put aside the many disastrous issues surrounding his latest pet project – the Lincoln Reflecting Pool. Let’s forget about the no-bid contracts that were issued to ‘great guys’ he knew and that it is running at 7 to 10 times what he originally stated, just like his ballroom; or that the new surface coating is lifting; or that the pool immediately turned Iranian green; or that they tried to spin it that it was blue when it was actually green by taking a photo from such a low angle that it reflected the sky.  These have been tediously discussed and lampooned and dissected on many news channels and podcasts.  SMAC wishes just to focus on the early impress conference that Trump held on 23 April in the Oval Office to brag about the gargantuan job that only he could undertake.

In that presser, he pulled out a large cardboard poster comparing the pool size to well-known American buildings bearing the headline – OUR POOL IS BIGGER THAN SKYSCRAPERS. 

The first problem is he’s comparing rhinos to polar bears.  They are completely different beasts.  Why not compare their volumes?  The One World Trade Center has 130x the volume of the Pool.  What about comparing it to the height of the Burj Kalifa in Dubai which is 35 % taller than the pool is long?  Then, although he had touted a dark blue paint, a somber contemplative color as befitting the idea of the pool, his poster showed a light blue sparkling pool like his pool at Mar-a-Lago in Florida because Trump likes bright things.

Finally, he just couldn’t resist tweaking its dimensions, after all, this is a big project for a big man.  Judging from the scaling of his picture, the pool is 2100-2150 ft long, ~5% more than its actual length. Its width is also about 120% wider than its true relative width. 

Capping it all, just to show what a bunch of clowns the chief clown surrounds himself with, the scaling misses out the 500 ft increment.

Finally, he just couldn’t resist tweaking its dimensions, after all, this is a big project for a big man.  Judging from the scaling of his picture, the pool is 2100-2150 ft long, ~5% more than its actual length. Its width is also about 120% wider than its true relative width. 

Capping it all, just to show what a bunch of clowns the chief clown surrounds himself with, the scaling misses out the 500 ft increment.

He has once again been proven to be as shallow as the Pool (average about 0.5m) and, like his medical examinations that falsely declare his height to be 6’3”, his penchant for showmanship based on lies, exaggerations and spurious information has been bust yet again.