With plans to renovate a D.C. golf course, Trump tees off another fight with residents

WASHINGTON — Unless a federal judge intervenes, President Donald Trump has said the administration will break ground on Sept. 1 for what the Department of the Interior is calling a new “world-class” golf course only a mile from the White House South Lawn. It would feature beautiful sight lines, ranging from the Potomac River to the Washington Monument, and is already landscaped with historic cherry trees, an iconic gift from the government of Japan. The only problem? It would replace a century-o