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Miles Archer

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Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:34 PM Dec 13

Trump's spent 23.5 percent of his 2nd term on the golf course. Now he wants to renovate D.C.'s public golf courses.

Trump has plans to get rid of a waste product from his demolition of the White House’s East Wing in the form of a new passion project in Washington.

The 79-year-old golf fanatic—who has hit the links for 23.5 percent of his second presidency—is reportedly planning on using leftover dirt from the East Wing to “beautifully” renovate D.C.’s public golf courses.

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’s scope has since expanded to include all of Washington’s public greens, which he has now hinted might end up falling under his purview along the way.

The interior secretary (Doug Burgum) told the outlet that the president wants to renovate the East Potomac course “back to what it was originally envisioned to be, which is the finest municipal golf in the country, right here in our capital.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-eyes-another-over-the-top-dc-vanity-project/

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Trump's spent 23.5 percent of his 2nd term on the golf course. Now he wants to renovate D.C.'s public golf courses. (Original Post) Miles Archer Dec 13 OP
Anybody done any asbestos readings on that dirt? tanyev Dec 13 #1
He wants a golf course he controls only minutes away from the WH, for convenience. Perfect for highplainsdem Dec 13 #2
Would love to know the backwater push that drove this project. Baitball Blogger Dec 13 #3

highplainsdem

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2. He wants a golf course he controls only minutes away from the WH, for convenience. Perfect for
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:47 PM
Dec 13

chats with lawmakers he's giving orders to. And with federal security handy for making it a private course for him and favored government officials and lawmakers and friendly dictators and oligarchs.

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