Donald Trump Really Wants This Golf Course
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Donald Trump is treating the championship golf course he wants to build in Washington, D.C., with the gravity of an actual emergency.
He has posted on Truth Social about the course at least 15 times in the past few days, including a dozen posts around 1 a.m. this morning.
He wrote yesterday that work “is scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY!” And the Trump administration has brought in a team of senior Justice Department lawyers, including the agency’s third in command, to defend its actions in court.
Last week, when Katie Zacharia praised Trump after he fired her as press secretary, a photo she posted contained a blurred-out map on Trump’s desk of what appeared to be the golf site.
It is literally at the top of Trump’s pile.
A golf-course renovation is probably not the big priority you’d expect from the president just two weeks before the midterm elections, where his party will face voters who are frustrated by high prices and dislike his many vanity projects .
But Trump doesn’t seem concerned that he may be risking another Reflecting Pool scandal at a high-stakes moment.
On Sunday, he posted design plans for his PGA-worthy golf course.
Right before a hearing yesterday, he called the federal judge presiding over a case about the golf course a “crazed lunatic” and claimed that the Interior Department could go ahead with his plan with no approval.
Trump has pushed to glam up the municipal golf course in East Potomac Park near the National Mall for months, insisting in June that work would begin on “one of the Greatest Golf Courses anywhere in the World” on September 1.
But starting such a project is more complicated than such a timeline would imply.
The entire park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and would be subject to extensive bureaucratic reviews.
On October 10, the National Park Service, with little notice, cut down more than 400 trees, leaving the timber piled up in the middle of the course and setting off fears among locals that the president planned to blow through the usual red tape and start building.
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