Trump Dumps Remains of East Wing in Local Park [View all]

Source: The Daily Beast

Trump Dumps Remains of East Wing in Local Park

Erkki Forster
Thu, February 19, 2026 at 5:15 PM EST
2 min read

Donald Trump is dumping the wreckage of his East Wing teardown onto a public park in D.C.—and locals are fuming.

Since reducing the White House’s historic East Wing to nothing but mangled metal and rubble to make way for his gigantic $400 million ballroom, the 79-year-old president has been piling the debris onto East Potomac Park, where he plans to build a luxury golf complex.

According to The New York Times, a National Park Service memo estimated that Trump will end up offloading some 30,000 cubic yards of soil, or around 2,000 truckloads, onto the park, which is already home to an affordable public golf course.

East Potomac Golf Links was managed by a nonprofit, National Links Trust, until Trump terminated its 50-year lease soon after he began destroying the East Wing in October.

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