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Trump Golf Manager Advises No-Bid $14.8M Reflecting Pool Renovation

5/22/2026

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Trump Reflecting Pool

President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club manager is acting as an unpaid adviser on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation.
The administration awarded no-bid contracts to refurbish the Reflecting Pool, with work slated for completion by Independence Day.
Greenwater Services received a $1.7 million purification contract and Atlantic Industrial Coatings a $13.1 million waterproofing contract.
President Donald Trump said the project exceeds his $1.8 million estimate and will use higher-quality sealant.

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Trump Defends Pool

President Donald Trump asserted the Reflecting Pool project would cost under $20 million, despite a nonprofit’s lawsuit seeking to halt it.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols heard the nonprofit’s request to stop the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation.
Plaintiffs contend the renovation breaches the National Historic Preservation Act by bypassing full public review.
Schutzenhofer, Trump’s Bedminster golf club manager, lacks engineering or architecture training.

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Trump Reflecting Pool

President Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club manager is acting as an unpaid adviser on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation.
The administration awarded no-bid contracts to refurbish the Reflecting Pool, with work slated for completion by Independence Day.
Greenwater Services received a $1.7 million purification contract and Atlantic Industrial Coatings a $13.1 million waterproofing contract.
President Donald Trump said the project exceeds his $1.8 million estimate and will use higher-quality sealant.

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