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The president’s plans to renovate a Washington, D.C. golf course are on hold—at least for now.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to leave East Potomac Park open through at least November 28, granting a two-week restraining order while she considers a lawsuit from the DC Preservation League.
Trump’s attempts to close and renovate the park have been mired in a legal battle for months. Trump took control of three public D.C. golf courses in January, including East Potomac Golf Links, amid his push to renovate East Potomac into a championship-level golf course. (The course sits on a park that is also used by pedestrians and cyclists.) The administration had settled with the operator of the course but was sued by the DC Preservation League and several locals.
Trump announced on Oct. 26 that his administration was closing the park on Nov. 15 “in order to renovate and rebuild” the facility into a course “fully capable of holding Major Events such as The U.S. Open.”
Hours before the closure was scheduled, Judge Ana C. Reyes granted the Preservation League a two-week restraining order while she considers the lawsuit.
Earlier this fall, the government had removed hundreds of trees from the course ahead of the planned overhaul.
Trump raged against the ruling in social media posts Saturday night and Sunday morning, mocking the current course as “Trash Island” and saying that the golf course there is unsafe because the fairways are too close to each other.
“When you walk down the corridors of Trash Island, you don’t hear the sound of the running Potomac, all you hear is the sound of people screaming, “FORE!,” the president posted on his Truth Social site Saturday. On Sunday, he said that the Department of the Interior would appeal Reyes’s “highly destructive and political decision.”
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