Trump administration terminates nonprofit’s control over DC golf courses in possible takeover bid
The National Links Trust invested $8.5 million and doubled rounds played but will halt renovations after lease termination over alleged defaults, Interior Department said.
- The Trump administration terminated a 50-year lease with the National Links Trust for managing three public golf courses in Washington, D.C.
- Interior Department officials alleged the group failed to implement required capital improvements, a claim the nonprofit denies.
- The move potentially allows Trump, who owns golf courses worldwide, to influence the future management of the D.C. public courses.
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Trump’s Erasure Campaign Reaches Langston Golf Course
By Stacy Brown, Washington Informer Under President Donald Trump, policies and places rooted in African American history, autonomy, or self-determination have been stripped for parts or brought under his personal control. Now, that campaign has landed on sacred ground in Washington: Langston Golf Course. In one of his first major moves targeting Washington’s civic infrastructure, Trump’s administration terminated the 50-year lease of the Nationa…
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Free golf lessons, workforce development programs in limbo after DC golf course lease termination
Questions are swirling among golfers in the D.C. area about what will happen to the District’s three public golf courses, after news Wednesday of President Donald Trump’s administration terminating the National Links Trust’s lease to manage the courses. Now the National Park Service will manage East Potomac Golf Links, Rock Creek Park Golf and Langston Golf Course. National Links Trust is a nonprofit with a stated goal of making golf more access…
Trump's Erasure Campaign Reaches Langston Golf Course
The Trump administration has terminated the 50-year lease of the National Links Trust, which operated Langston Golf Course, a historically significant course built in 1939 for Black golfers, and has plans to redesign it with the help of Tiger Woods. The post Trump’s Erasure Campaign Reaches Langston Golf Course appeared first on The Washington Informer.
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