The algae-infested water in the refilled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is even more disgusting than its green color suggests. During an episode of The Issue Is, CNN’s Washington correspondent Sunlen Serfaty took a sample from the pool that President Donald Trump ordered be repainted and refilled as part of the America250 celebrations and sent it off for testing.

CNN's Pamela Brown and 'Chief Algae Correspondent' for the day Tom Foreman provided viewers an update on the newly renovated reflecting pool, which has turned a murky green color

President Donald Trump poured more than $14 million into a Reflecting Pool renovation that was completed earlier this month, but its refilling has been plagued by an intense algae bloom, and CNN wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CNN anchor Abby Phillip accused President Donald Trump of calling the press in for a signing event just so he could regale them with a chart showing the size of the Reflecting Pool.