02/21/2026
In Washington D.C., not much had changed about East Potomac Golf Links course over the decades until one day last October when some dump trucks showed up. The trucks were sent by the White House. They were carrying mud. The trucks drove onto the golf course and, somewhere between the fourth and ninth holes, began dumping mounds of the stuff. Tiny bits of rebar, wiring and specks of white plaster poked out from the piles. Turned out it was the remains of the East Wing, which President Trump had demolished days earlier. His destruction of one piece of Washington history heralded his destruction of another. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4qQyjt4