{"id":346755,"date":"2025-12-13T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346755\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T17:23:09","slug":"trump-eyes-another-over-the-top-d-c-vanity-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346755\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Eyes Another Over-the-Top D.C. Vanity Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has plans to get rid of a waste product from his demolition of the White House\u2019s East Wing<\/a> in the form of a new passion project in Washington.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old golf fanatic\u2014who has hit the links for 23.5 percent of his second presidency<\/a>\u2014is reportedly planning on using leftover dirt from the East Wing to \u201cbeautifully\u201d renovate D.C.\u2019s public golf courses. <\/p>\n

While the plan originally focused on just filling in East Potomac Golf Links as a means of finally getting the dirt out of his hands, Trump\u2019s scope has since expanded to include all of Washington\u2019s public greens, which he has now hinted might end up falling under his purview along the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"USDonald Trump’s latest fixation is redoing Washington’s public golf courses ‘beautifully,’ despite his vested interest in his own private clubs. ANDY BUCHANAN\/ANDY BUCHANAN\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Doug Burgum was responsible for putting Trump\u2019s new passion project in his head.<\/p>\n

The interior secretary told the outlet that the president wants to renovate the East Potomac course \u201cback to what it was originally envisioned to be, which is the finest municipal golf in the country, right here in our capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump himself pluralized his intentions and suggested that he was looking to spruce up all the public greens in D.C., which include Rock Creek Park Golf and Langston Golf Course. \u201cIf we do them, we\u2019ll do it really beautifully,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"ConstructionThe president had been left figuring out what to do with what was once the East Wing, but is now a pile of dirt that needs clearing up. Andrew Leyden\/Getty <\/p>\n

At present, the public courses are owned by the non-profit National Links Trust. Trump himself owns the private Trump National Golf Club in the area. <\/p>\n

The group has managed to keep golfing prices low for DC golfers during its 50-year lease to restore and run the courses. But, as Trump\u2019s interest in the courses has risen, the National Links Trust\u2019s lease has fallen under threat.<\/p>\n

The group has been told by the Interior Department that they\u2019ve fallen behind on promised renovations and have been served a default notice that could see them lose their lease.<\/p>\n

\"GettyImages-1411479286_jxdmyz\"DC’s public course are run by the National Links Trust, but Trump has hinted that if he uses the dirt to help renovate, he might boot the Trust out of their lease. Cliff Hawkins <\/p>\n

A spokesperson told the WSJ: \u201cNational Links Trust respectfully disagrees with the characterization that we are in default.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNational Links Trust appreciates the president\u2019s interest in the D.C. golf courses and looks forward to the opportunity to partner with the administration to improve these historically significant facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trust is working to retain control of the public courses, having presented Trump and the Interior Department with a very on-brand \u201cMake DC Golf Great Again\u201d plan.<\/p>\n

Despite the MAGA-esque name of the proposal and the statement of a desire to \u201cpartner\u201d with the Trump administration, it seems the president has his heart set on elbowing the Trust out and taking over the courses himself.<\/p>\n

\"USTrump is also busy renovating golf courses at Joint Base Andrews, alongside painting the White House gold, building his ballroom, and working on a new NFL stadium. JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cI think what we\u2019re looking to do is just build something different, and build them in government,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n

Adding DC\u2019s public courses to his property portfolio would be just another jewel in Trump\u2019s crown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has plans to get rid of a waste product from his demolition of the White House\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1072,5473,427,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,5832],"class_list":["post-346755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-doug-burgum","tag-golf","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}