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OldBoss

(66 posts) Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:11 PM Monday

"Why The Trump Administration Is Taking Over Washington D.C.'s Public Golf Courses"

Interesting article with details about the golf course invasion.

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The Trump administration says it terminated its lease with NLT because 1) NLT failed to make capital improvements on time, 2) NLT did not provide a “reasonable and credible” cure proposal after receiving the initial default notice, and 3) NLT owes as much as $8.8 million in unpaid rent to the National Park Service from 2020 to 2025.

But after reviewing the lease agreement, none of these allegations contains substance.

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Shame there seems to be little resistance to this. If this happens the course should be called Bone Saw Ridge.

https://huddleup.substack.com/p/why-the-trump-administration-is-taking]

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"Why The Trump Administration Is Taking Over Washington D.C.'s Public Golf Courses" (Original Post) OldBoss Monday OP

Trump National Deep State Witch Monday #1

Trump is a thief. Kid Berwyn Monday #2

Biggest waste of space are golf courses Johonny Monday #3

Not enough tacky gilded gold decor in the clubhouse? ThoughtCriminal Monday #4

Again I ask, did anyone test the dirt from the East Wing demolition for asbestos??? tanyev Monday #5

Deep State Witch

(12,566 posts)

1. Trump National

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Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:25 PM

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at Rock Creek Park.

Kid Berwyn

(22,968 posts)

2. Trump is a thief.

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Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:52 PM

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And that's about the nicest thing I've ever written about the treasonous turd.

Johonny

(25,470 posts)

3. Biggest waste of space are golf courses

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Mon Jan 5, 2026, 05:01 PM

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And cemeteries.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,706 posts)

4. Not enough tacky gilded gold decor in the clubhouse?

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Mon Jan 5, 2026, 05:58 PM

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Priorities!

tanyev

(48,665 posts)

5. Again I ask, did anyone test the dirt from the East Wing demolition for asbestos???

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Mon Jan 5, 2026, 06:08 PM

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By the time the plan reached the Oval Office in August, it was drastically different from what NLT and Doffermyre had initially discussed. Rather than helping the nonprofit raise money and cut red tape, Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Doffermyre pitched Trump on transforming East Potomac Golf Links into a high-end, professional-level course named “Washington National Golf Course.”

The following month, Doffermyre issued a formal default notice to NLT. Trump then sent dirt from his demolition of the White House’s East Wing to East Potomac Golf Links (because it would be needed for a renovation anyway). And then last week, the Department of the Interior formally terminated its lease with NLT 45 years early.

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