President Donald Trump is still fuming over a judge’s order keeping a historic Washington, D.C., golf course out of his hands, and now he’s warning that whole “golf seasons” are on the line.
“Biden appointed Judge Reyes has delayed, for yet another two weeks, the fix up and reconstruction, by the Department of the Interior, of one of the worst and most dangerous golf courses anywhere in the U.S.,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday morning.
“‘Trash Island,’ as it is affectionately known, needs work, and needs it now!” he continued. “It is in a terrible state of disrepair, as anybody can see by just looking at the pictures that are now circulating all over the Country, and in the Court. They don’t call it Trash Island for no reason!”
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Saturday blocked the administration from closing East Potomac Park, home to the century-old public course, just before the shutdown was set to take effect. Her order keeps the park open to the public through Nov. 28.
Reyes found the government’s stated reasons for the closure “transparently pretextual.” She noted that the National Park Service ended the course operator’s lease to carry out Trump’s directive, then pointed to the lack of an operator as a reason to close the park.
“That reverses cause and effect—by design,” she wrote.
Trump didn’t see it that way.
“Why would a judge want to delay taking a terrible and very unsafe golf course, one that is mocked all over D.C.(and far beyond!), instead of quickly turning it into a great and admired one?” he wrote.
He said the Interior Department “has the absolute right to do so, and will immediately appeal, on an expedited basis, this highly destructive and political decision of the judge.”
“Time is of the essence, or golf seasons, jobs, prestige, and much money, will be lost!” he added.
It’s not the first time the course fight has gotten under Trump’s skin. He previously lashed out at a judge with “no expertise in Golf” after an earlier setback. In another ruling, a judge invoked “The Lorax” while blocking the administration’s tree removal at the site.
Saturday’s ruling was a win for Norm Eisen and the Democracy Defenders Fund, which brought the case with Democracy Forward.
“BREAKING: we won! TRO granted in the case to stop Trump’s monstrous golf course,” Eisen posted after the decision.
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