Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s track-record on DC renovation projects has been nothing short of disastrous. Just look at the Reflecting Pool.
So, will his DC golf course renovation work out any better? (The short answer: No.)
When President Donald Trump takes flight on Marine One from the White House, he often gets a bird’s-eye view of a municipal golf course located at East Potomac Park, a national park better known to locals as Hains Point.
Perhaps the flyovers inspired his recent ambitions to transform the beloved local links into a world-class golf course worthy of PGA tournaments.
Trump recently said construction on the new course will begin September 1. But his aerial view of this particular building site may obscure one of the park’s key features: Its water hazard.
Water from the Potomac River floods its sidewalks and drowned the city’s dreams of a modern swimming facility.
Now, it threatens to wash out Trump’s golf fantasy and leave behind a disaster that will make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look like a minor embarrassment.
“This is a municipal site,” says the DC Preservation League’s Rebecca Miller. “This is not Pebble Beach, and it doesn’t need to be.”
You can find the full story about Trump’s plan to transform the East Potomac golf course at MotherJones.com
Reporter: Stephanie Mencimer
Producer: Peter Berger
#trump #HainsPoint #washingtondc #potomacriver #dcnews #MotherJones #investigativejournalism
Trump’s track-record on DC renovation projects has been nothing short of disastrous. Just look at the Reflecting Pool.
So, will his DC golf course renovation work out any better? (The short answer: No.)
When President Donald Trump takes flight on Marine One from the White House, he often gets a bird’s-eye view of a municipal golf course located at East Potomac Park, a national park better known to locals as Hains Point.
Perhaps the flyovers inspired his recent ambitions to transform the beloved local links into a world-class golf course worthy of PGA tournaments.
Trump recently said construction on the new course will begin September 1. But his aerial view of this particular building site may obscure one of the park’s key features: Its water hazard.
Water from the Potomac River floods its sidewalks and drowned the city’s dreams of a modern swimming facility.
Now, it threatens to wash out Trump’s golf fantasy and leave behind a disaster that will make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look like a minor embarrassment.
“This is a municipal site,” says the DC Preservation League’s Rebecca Miller. “This is not Pebble Beach, and it doesn’t need to be.”
You can find the full story about Trump’s plan to transform the East Potomac golf course at MotherJones.com
Reporter: Stephanie Mencimer
Producer: Peter Berger
#trump #HainsPoint #washingtondc #potomacriver #dcnews #MotherJones #investigativejournalism
