Photos from Trump's golf course tour reveal extensive overhaul of East Potomac

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

As President Donald Trump toured East Potomac Golf Links on Sunday, he carried what appeared to be detailed plans showing a far more extensive redevelopment of the municipal golf course than federal officials have publicly disclosed.

The plans, visible in photographs taken during Trump’s visit, seem to stretch the redesigned golf course across nearly the entire East Potomac peninsula, extending play to the shoreline. The renderings do not appear to show several of the park’s best-known public amenities, including the riverside bicycle trail, the miniature golf course and Washington’s oldest grove of cherry trees.

The drawings offer the clearest glimpse yet of how the Trump administration wants to transform one of the nation’s oldest municipal golf facilities into a championship-caliber venue capable of hosting the U.S. Open, Ryder Cup and other major tournaments.

The newly visible plans raise fresh questions about the scope of the project and what parts of the heavily used public park could be altered or displaced. Trump spent more than 90 minutes at East Potomac on Sunday morning, walking the property with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, golf course architect Tom Fazio and other administration officials during what is believed to have been his first visit to the waterfront course.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/06/30/photos-trumps-golf-course-tour-reveal-overhaul-east-potomac/

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So the bastard would get rid of facilities the public can use, and Washington's oldest grove of cherry trees...

[marble falls]

1. And yet another WaPo pro-TACO puff piece. I am glad if it's a real improvement to the course.

[highplainsdem]

3. It isn't a puff piece. It's very clear in explaining that Trump will be destroying a public park with

multiple uses, that a champoinship golf course would be threatened by flooding, and that the peninsula the park is on isn't large enough for the grandstands and other structures a championship requires anyway.

The article makes it clear just how bad Trump's plans are, and how his plans are being challenged in court, and how Burgum apparently lied when he gave a very different picture of Trump's plans in May.

[Bayard]

2. Can this be stopped before he starts chopping down trees, or building another ballroom,

And blowing more of our money?

[highplainsdem]

4. It's already being challenged in court.

[hookaleft]

6. He is going to do it anyway

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Lawyers for the D.C. Preservation League warned that the East Potomac property would be "razed" by the Trump administration before anyone could stop it, citing the rapid demolition of the White House's East Wing.

A federal judge warned the administration that it was not to proceed with renovations on East Potomac before getting proper approvals and notifying her first.

"I'm going to say this one more time, and I do not want a situation where something has happened and then I'm being told by the government or by a foundation or by a bulldozing company that it's too late to do anything about it," U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said. "If anything like that happens ... there are going to be serious consequences."

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-work-begin-dc-golf-despite-judges-warning/story?id=134293591

[Initech]

5. He thinks he's only president of old retired people who play golf and watch Fox.

[highplainsdem]

7. And he wants what he'll treat as his own private golf course just minutes from the White House, so he

can golf more often (if he can still walk at all) and brag about the course to foreign leaders.

[LessAspin]

8. Future 4th Wife

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
Natalie Harp is there too ⛳

[calimary]

9. Eeeeeeuw!

[Aviation Pro]

10. A braying, fucking donkey

Ugly inside and out.

[Jerry2144]

11. "tRump spent more than 90 minutes walking..."

Yeah right. Totally believable.

He’s not fit like President Obama or President Biden. Walking has nothing to do with what they did. Likely more along the lines of riding a golf cart and walking 90 inches

[Figarosmom]

12. He walked?

Weren't those cherry trees given to us by Tokyo and what people go to DC to see during the National Cherry Blossom Festival?

Someone has yo put a stop to his destruction.

[electric_blue68]

15. Oh! I missed the part about the cherry trees! Yes I think many were a gift from Japan....

Hands off, effer!!!

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Thanks goodness there's nothing more important going on, so he can spend all his time redecorating !

Aren't there any wars or international crises going on that could take his attention away from this nonsense ?

[SunSeeker]

14. Sucking the money out of our struggling national parks for his sickening pet projects!