A lawsuit seeks to stop Trump's overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington

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Source: AP

Updated 9:59 PM EST, February 13, 2026


Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a park that is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The suit is the latest in a series of legal battles challenging President Donald Trump’s extraordinary efforts to put his mark on public spaces in the nation’s capitol, including shuttering the Kennedy Center. At the end of last year, a group of preservationists filed a similar lawsuit seeking to prevent the administration from demolishing the East Wing of the White House in order to build a ballroom — a project slated to cost $400.

Trump, who is an avid golfer himself, also plans on renovating a military golf course just outside of Washington that has been used by past presidents going back decades.

The complaint filed against the Department of the Interior on Friday says that the Trump administration’s reconstruction of East Potomac Park — which includes the East Potomac Golf Course — would violate the congressional act that created the park in 1897. The roughly 130-year-old act established the park for the “recreation and the pleasure of the people.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-public-golf-course-renovation-d41499083ce596b84e5f7e135a1b4e6f

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Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/DC-Preservation-League-et.-al.-v.-Department-of-the-Interior-et.-al.pdf

Link to Democracy Forward PRESS RELEASE - Legal Challenge Brought Against Effort by Trump-Vance Administration to Stymie Public Access to East Potomac Park, Create Exclusive Golf Course for President


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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. It appears, TACO Don wants his name on EVERYTHING!!

All the while we the People, are paying the price of his abuse with HIGHER costs to everything while everything else goes to shit!

More of our hard earned money going for his vanity projects.

[IbogaProject]

5. I suggest we make his name ubiquitous

Instead of saying "I need to take a dump" say "I need to take a Trump". I just had a messy Trump, you might want to wait. And Porta-Pottys should just be called Trumps. Hi we need five Trumps for our street fair. "Whoa those Trumps were filthy after the event".

[Pinback]

6. "Man, you need more fiber!

That Trump lasted half a Scaramucci!”

[Wonder Why]

2. He wants to bury Melanoma there. She's a "cancer" in his side and he wants to have as many

wives as the other fat pig, Henry VIII. He probably plans to do it even if she's not dead.

[llmart]

3. "avid golfer"?

Using the adjective "avid" at the orange lardass who can barely get out of the golf cart is laughable.

[twodogsbarking]

4. East Wing of the White House in order to build a ballroom -- a project slated to cost $400.

Thanks for posting. You rock. $400 made me laugh.

[twodogsbarking]

7. He will bulldoze it all and not face any criminal charges. Wait and see. Judge? Meh.