{"id":381267,"date":"2026-01-01T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381267\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:11:12","slug":"trump-administration-cancels-lease-for-washington-public-golf-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381267\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration cancels lease for Washington public golf courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration has terminated the lease agreement for three public golf courses in Washington<\/a>, a decision that could allow President Donald Trump to further influence a notable part of the nation’s capital.<\/p>\n

The National Links Trust, the non-profit organization that has managed Washington’s three public courses on federal land for the past five years, confirmed Wednesday that the Department of the Interior had ended its 50-year lease.<\/p>\n

The Interior Department said the lease was cancelled because the non-profit had not carried out required capital improvements and failed to meet the agreement’s terms.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration’s intentions for the golf courses are currently unclear.<\/p>\n

However, the move provides the president, whose private company has developed numerous golf courses<\/a> across the US and abroad, the opportunity to reshape the links overlooking the Potomac River, in Rock Creek Park, and a site with significant Black golf history.<\/p>\n

Officials for the National Links Trust said in a statement that they were \u201cdevastated\u201d by the decision to terminate the lease and defended their management of the courses.<\/p>\n

They said $8.5 million had gone toward capital improvements at the courses and that rounds played and revenue had more than doubled in their tenure managing the courses.<\/p>\n

\"Trump<\/p>\n

Trump plays a round of golf in New Jersey (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The nonprofit has agreed to keep managing the courses for the time being, but long-term renovations will stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile this termination is a major setback, we remain stubbornly hopeful that a path forward can be found that preserves affordable and accessible public golf in the nation\u2019s capital for generations to come,\u201d the officials added.<\/p>\n

The Department of the Interior’s decision comes as Trump rebrands civic spaces in Washington and deploys National Guard<\/a> members to the streets for public safety.<\/p>\n

The Kennedy Center<\/a> added Trump’s name this month after the center’s board of trustees \u2014 made up of Trump appointees \u2014 voted to change the name<\/a> of the performing arts space designated by Congress as a memorial to John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

Trump is also in the midst of a construction project to build a ballroom on the White House’s East Wing<\/a>, and he has put his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has terminated the lease agreement for three public golf courses in Washington, a decision that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,162400,63300,1376,622,18371,22114,149358,162401,162399,82,26765,3642],"class_list":["post-381267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-capital-improvements","tag-department-of-the-interior","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-golf-courses","tag-interior-department","tag-lease-agreement","tag-non-profit-organization","tag-public-courses","tag-sports","tag-the-trump","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}