US Politics
The Clear-Cut Prelude: How Bureaucratic Stewardship is Being Weaponized for a Presidential Golf Course
The National Park Service plans to cut down over 500 trees at Washington's East Potomac Golf Course, citing routine maintenance, amid ongoing litigation over President Trump's proposal to build a championship-level golf course there. This act, framed as landscape rehabilitation, is a chilling shadow operation that pre-emptively fulfills the destructive core of a vanity project, trading public ecology for private ambition under the thin veil of bureaucracy.
