What was spray painted on Washington Monument?

The base of the monument was smeared with a splash of red paint, accompanied by the words: Have you been f----- by this ... Gov says tough s---. The park service was given jurisdiction over the monument in 1933, with the first restoration of the structure beginning as a Depression Era public works project in 1934.



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Such was the case of the small but very expensive aluminum pyramid that was set atop the Washington Monument on its completion in 1884 to serve the functional purpose of a lightning rod. In retrospect, this can be considered a watershed event in the subsequent emergence of the modern massive aluminum industry.

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An Indiana man was taken into custody after the Washington Monument was vandalized with red paint late Tuesday, authorities said. Shaun Ray Deaton, 44, of Bloomington, was arrested at 7:30 p.m. on charges of trespassing, tampering and vandalism, the National Park Service said in a statement.

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Thereafter in the actual implementation of the Monument's construction the engineers responsible for it's construction apparently observed that the formal nexus originally intended was too marshy and the soil there presumably not competent to support the weight of the massive structure proposed.

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The Masons, and the Pope, were involved with the monument. At the 1848 ceremony were 20,000 people, and a container that held copies of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and other objects was buried in the cornerstone.

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Washington – The National Park Service announced today that the Washington Monument will close until further notice as a measure to protect staff and visitors from the spread of COVID-19. The monument closed on January 11 for security reasons surrounding the 59th presidential inauguration.

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WASHINGTON, March 11—The Washington Monument, the No. 3 tourist attraction in the capital, is getting its first scrubbing in 30 years.

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Even the Washington Monument is a Rubenstein project. He donated $7.5 million to help the National Park Service repair the monument after it was damaged by an earthquake in 2010.

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The Washington Monument is 100 feet taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza. If the Washington Monument and the Great Pyramid each were 355 feet shorter, the Washington Monument would be twice as tall as the Great Pyramid.

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