{"id":73351,"date":"2026-05-11T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/preservation-group-sues-trump-administration-over-effort-to-paint-reflecting-pool-american-flag-blue\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:59:11","slug":"preservation-group-sues-trump-administration-over-effort-to-paint-reflecting-pool-american-flag-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/preservation-group-sues-trump-administration-over-effort-to-paint-reflecting-pool-american-flag-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Preservation group sues Trump administration over effort to paint reflecting pool \u2018American Flag Blue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural nonprofit sued the Trump administration on Monday in an effort to block its ongoing repainting of the reflecting pool on the National Mall to make it \u201cAmerican Flag Blue.\u201dIn papers filed in federal court in Washington, attorneys for Cultural Landscape Foundation argue that the resurfacing of the historic pool is \u201cunlawful,\u201d and it should be restored to its original color until the administration follows Congressionally mandated procedures to do the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural nonprofit sued the Trump administration on Monday in an effort to block its ongoing repainting of the reflecting pool on the National Mall to make it \u201cAmerican Flag Blue.\u201dIn papers filed in federal court in Washington, attorneys for Cultural Landscape Foundation argue that the resurfacing of the historic pool is \u201cunlawful,\u201d and it &#8230; <a title=\"Preservation group sues Trump administration over effort to paint reflecting pool \u2018American Flag Blue\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/preservation-group-sues-trump-administration-over-effort-to-paint-reflecting-pool-american-flag-blue\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Preservation group sues Trump administration over effort to paint reflecting pool \u2018American Flag Blue\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}