Manager at Trump's N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

May 19, 2026, 1:13 p.m. ET


The general manager of President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., has offered suggestions to guide the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and helped recruit one of the contractors for the job, according to federal documents and a government spokeswoman. The manager, David Schutzenhofer, who has run the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster since 2006, is a private citizen with no known training in engineering or architecture.

An Interior Department spokeswoman said Mr. Schutzenhofer had advised the government on the repair project without becoming a temporary government employee. Had he become one, he would have been required to take ethics training and pledge to avoid conflicts of interest.

“Mr. Schutzenhofer is unpaid and is volunteering his time to offer suggestions on this project because he is an American patriot,” the spokeswoman, Katie Martin, said in an email. She called Mr. Schutzenhofer a world-renowned leader in the hospitality industry and said he did not “direct” any federal contracts. The department did not provide details about Mr. Schutzenhofer’s involvement in the project.

Neither Mr. Schutzenhofer nor the Trump Organization responded to requests for comment. In response to questions, Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said in an email, “Thanks to President Trump, the Reflecting Pool will be restored to its proper glory!”. Mr. Trump previously took credit for picking one of the contractors repairing the Reflecting Pool, saying the company had worked on the swimming pool at his golf club in Sterling, Va. But the president later reversed himself, saying he did not know the firm.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-schutzenhofer.html

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[groundloop]

1. "Unpaid Volunteer" my ass.

I guarantee he's getting kickbacks from the contractors. He has to be dirty as hell to have survived working for tRump for 20 years.

OH, and as far as calling this work a "repair" - that's BS because it implies that there was something wrong with the reflecting pool. The only thing wrong was tRump's ego.

[Permanut]

2. Suggestions and advice should be worth a million dollars..

Write him a check!

[Blue Owl]

3. He's also a freelance grave digger for dead spouses

[ultralite001]

4. A bit concerning that Krasnov is now calling the Reflecting Pool...

the Reflecting Lake...

More plans???

[Marthe48]

5. Reflecting Pool destruction

and unwarranted expenditure of taxpayers' money

[magicarpet]

6. Asshole trDUMP driving the heavy pres. limo beast and 12 vehicle entourage on the,...

... to the motorcade on the pool basin must have caused more damage to the leaking reflective pool. It already leaks 16 million gallons/year. The seams do not need the additional weight to further crack the seams and cause more leakage.

Who's hair brained idea was it to drive the tyrant's motorcade inside the pool area. One guess djt and his megalomaniac ego.

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https://youtube.com/shorts/H8hyMGP3pcE?si=oCAzgF4Q7CKMTw2V

Cost over runs by djt,... $1.8 million now $13.6'million,...

https://youtube.com/shorts/1Fe3CLeG_Xs?si=KIrHsFabKI187KNO

[Marthe48]

7. With the inaccurate estimates time and again

I can see why pedo failed in business. Now, he can pull numbers out of his ass and has the U.S. Treasury to cover it all.

[Grins]

8. "... because he is an American patriot!"

God, I’m really, really, starting to hate that word.

[Marie Marie]

9. So now we are throwing millions at the "pool boy". Only the best or,

the ones that will not only give a kick back to Lardass but also promise free future work at his private properties.