{"id":330520,"date":"2025-10-25T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330520\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:08:12","slug":"trump-turns-east-wing-debris-into-filler-at-golf-course-he-planned-to-refurb-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330520\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Turns East Wing Debris Into Filler at Golf Course He Planned to Refurb: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Screengrab via X\/@maustermuhle\/AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Debris from the White House\u2019s demolished East Wing, which was reduced to rubble to make way for President <strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> planned $300 million ballroom, is reportedly being hauled to a Washington golf course the president has shown interest in refurbishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trucks were seen carting away loads of dirt from the East Wing demolition site on Friday, then depositing them at East Potomac Park, an island course along the Potomac River, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/23\/trump-ballroom-white-house-east-wing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Washington Post reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A source familiar with the project confirmed to the newspaper that the dirt \u201cwill be used to form mounds at the nearby public golf course.\u201d The nearby<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">USA Today reported the same and captured video of an alleged East Wing debris drop-off at the East Potomac Golf Links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Journalist <strong>Martin Austermuhle<\/strong> visited the course, reporting that multiple workers confirmed to him the dirt was from the East Wing site and \u201cused to create new terrain on the course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The revelation comes two months after Politico revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/01\/developer-in-chief-trump-determined-to-leave-a-physical-imprint-on-the-white-house-and-the-capital-00537531?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nrid=0000015d-667e-d075-a77f-e77ee1da0000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trump was eyeing a refurb and rebrand of the course;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trump was eyeing a refurb and rebrand of the course<\/a>. The idea reportedly began as a staffer\u2019s suggestion, which Trump embraced by autographing a rendering of a golden logo like those of his private clubs. The redesign proposal included a new name: the \u201cWashington National Golf Course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The East Potomac site is operated under a 50-year lease signed in 2020 between the National Park Service and the nonprofit National Links Trust. The course has remained open to the public under that agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-turns-east-wing-debris-into-filler-at-golf-course-he-planned-to-refurb-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trump Turns East Wing Debris Into Filler at Golf Course He Planned to Refurb: Report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Trump Turns East Wing Debris Into Filler at Golf Course He Planned to Refurb: Report<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mediaite;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screengrab via X\/@maustermuhle\/AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin Debris from the White House\u2019s demolished East Wing, which was reduced to rubble&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[69,162759,164092,164091,1430,164093,62,29621,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-330520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-east-potomac-golf-links","10":"tag-east-potomac-park","11":"tag-east-wing","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-martin-austermuhle","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-the-white-house","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115432371222658226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}