{"id":617908,"date":"2026-05-01T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617908\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:16:06","slug":"trump-administration-asked-nfls-commanders-to-run-langston-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/617908\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration asked NFL\u2019s Commanders to run Langston Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"646K6W4D5FG5VEWJ6SHTHL2HCU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration has approached an unusual potential operator to take over control of one of Washington\u2019s historic public golf courses: the Washington Commanders football team.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"74N7DJSUWBHGDEA7YKTEUE6XGQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Officials with the Interior Department last month asked the NFL team\u2019s charitable foundation about overseeing Langston Golf Course in Northeast Washington, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/01\/15\/trump-langston-east-potomac-golf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">historic home of African American golfers<\/a> in the region, according to two people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them publicly. The golf course is less than a mile from the team\u2019s future home at the former RFK Stadium site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration has approached an unusual potential operator to take over control of one of Washington\u2019s historic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-617908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617908","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=617908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}