Trump's despotism extends to DC golf courses (Scott G. Nelson and Bradley S. Klein in Aaron Rupar's Public Notice)

[highplainsdem]

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-dc-golf-courses

Despite its reputation as a game dominated by wealthy elites at private clubs, golf is overwhelmingly a public recreation. According to data from the National Golf Foundation, 70 percent of the country’s 16,000 golf courses and 75 percent of all rounds played in the US occur in the public domain. That includes daily fee, pay-as-you-go facilities, whether privately owned, municipally controlled or affiliated with a resort hotel. The average green fee per round is $40-$50 — hardly an extravagance. Golf is still a public good here in the US, as it is in Scotland, where the most famous course in the world, at St. Andrews, is also a municipal, daily-fee entity.

These three public golf courses were especially important to the largely Black population of DC — a demographic that had been historically excluded from the game at both private and public courses throughout the country. With Black golfers banned from membership in the PGA of America until 1961, the United Golfers Association was actually founded in DC back in 1925 as an organized response to racial barriers in the sport.

Five years into the new leasing agreements negotiated between the National Parks Service and the NLT — and approved by the Department of Interior during the first Trump administration — golf has been booming at these DC courses and renovation plans were imminent.

When demolition of the East Wing of the White House took place last fall to make way for a new banquet hall, the White House convinced East Potomac Golf Course to take the soil, threatening to revoke its lease if it refused. Even after the NLT accepted shipments of the material, the Trump administration filed notice on October 29 of a breach of contract, thereby opening the door to seizing control of the golf property and taking over day-to-day operations. No details or documentation of specific violations were cited, as is required by the contract. Trump then threatened to impose an entirely different — though yet unspecified — plan for the long-term character of East Potomac and the other two courses.

So that's why Trump had the soil taken there...

[underpants]

1. Just like how he used to refuse to pay bills

I’d read about the debris being taken there and about the lawsuit but I hadn’t put them together until I read this.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Total Fraud

Golfer is the self-proclaimed Michigan Man of the Year award winner.