NYTimes article on East Potomac Park

[Cynthia Palmer]

Of possible interest to walkers, runners, and bicycle riders:

Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park?  The East Potomac Golf Links is a municipal course that has been a fixture in Washington for decades. President Trump is turning it into something else.

(here is a gift link for all to read)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-east-wing-rubble-in-a-public-park.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NlA.lTfz.V9Q_7392_5jC&smid=url-share

EXCERPT: 

An administration official helping to oversee the project in East Potomac Park said it was too soon to know how exactly the president’s course would be built. The official could not share cost projections or a timeline. No architect has been announced.

Three top architects who have worked on U.S. Open courses explained what would probably need to happen on the island in order for its course to become “U.S. Open-caliber,” as the president said he wanted.

As it stands, the 210-acre course takes up much of the park, but not all of it. The architects all agreed that the course would need to get bigger. The road that the public uses to bike and run around the island would probably be demolished so that the course could extend to the water’s edge. The picnic area would have to go, too, and so would the forest of cherry trees. This last point has particularly upset people, since some of those trees are the original cherry blossoms that were sent to Washington in 1910, a gift from the mayor of Tokyo.

[Len Burman]

And picnickers. I love seeing all the families there on fine summer days. The president’s plans would be a travesty. 

Thanks for posting.  

Len Burman

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