{"id":211901,"date":"2026-05-28T04:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-says-world-war-ii-memorial-could-be-next-in-dc-makeover-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:03:56","slug":"trump-says-world-war-ii-memorial-could-be-next-in-dc-makeover-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-says-world-war-ii-memorial-could-be-next-in-dc-makeover-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says World War II Memorial could be next in DC makeover – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> said the World War II Memorial on the National Mall may be the next Washington, DC landmark to get a makeover under his administration.
After launching a renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool<\/a>, Trump said during a May 27 Cabinet meeting that he\u2019s considering something similar for the fountain at the World War II Memorial.
\u201cNow we\u2019re looking at the World War II fountain, because that\u2019s also in pretty bad shape on the bottom,\u201d Trump said.
Criticizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s appearance, Trump had it drained, resurfaced and painted \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d He indicated the same thing could happen with the World War II Memorial fountain.
\u201cWe\u2019re going to duplicate it, I think, maybe with a slightly different color actually, we\u2019ll go with a lighter color,\u201d Trump said.
The real-estate-developer-turned-president has quickly moved in his second term to put his stamp not just on policy, but\u00a0on the physical landscape of Washington, DC<\/a>\u00a0Among the projects: Demolishing the White House East Wing to build a new ballroom, closing the Kennedy Center<\/a> for two years for a $200 million renovation and moving forward on a new 250-foot “Triumphal Arch”<\/a> on Memorial Circle near the Arlington National Cemetery.
While Trump has framed the projects as much-needed improvements, they have sparked court challenges,<\/a> backlash from historic preservationists and criticism about the lack of public input.
The nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation is suing<\/a> over the application of blue paint to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying in a press release that “changing the Reflecting Pool\u2019s color, a key character-defining feature of the site, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, should be subject to reviews \u2026 under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and other laws.\u201d
Trump said May 27 that his overhaul of the reflecting pool will be completed before July 4, when the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Located between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial contains a large fountain pool surrounded by bronze bas-relief panels with information on the war, granite columns representing every U.S. state and territory, two large \u201cvictory pavilions\u201d and a wall of gold stars, according to the National Park Service.<\/a>
Contributing: Bart Jansen, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Michelle Del Rey, USA TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump said the World War II Memorial on the National Mall may be the next Washington, DC landmark to get a makeover under his administration.After launching a renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Trump said during a May 27 Cabinet meeting that he\u2019s considering something similar for the fountain at the World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}