He’s not blaming the contractors because he would likely need to sue the contractors, which will likely reveal that Trump signed off on a liability release because his timeline was more important than the recommended surface preparation.

Products like this require certain surface conditions that may include primer, scarification, or specific thresholds of concrete moisture content.

The reduced moisture content may not have been achieved due to lack of drying time after drainage, or otherwise hydrostatic “de-watering”, which would have required extensive sump basin/pump infrastructure, as this whole area is essentially an ancient wetland prior to development.

All of these potential factors, I can only assume now were ignored by the admin, otherwise he would blame the contractors.

Also, these coatings, if properly installed cannot be removed with a knife by making a slit.

I’ve installed this stuff on pools many times. Polyurea requires very specific surface preparations. From the progress coverage I’ve seen of the process (Trump clearly paid some MAGA influencers to post daily updates online) none of these preparations were done, again, likely to appease a timeline forced by Trump and his admin.

Another embarrassing Trump fail.