Decorating style reminiscent of the late Rococovfefe period

[nycfan]

—> Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park?

 

[nycfan]

—> Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park?

“…
The idea that the billionaire president who operates more than a dozen of his own gold-plated golf clubs — he already has one on the Potomac, just a 45-minute drive upstream — would turn the proudly proletarian East Potomac course into a baby Bedminster has been profoundly depressing to many locals who love to play in the park.

People tend to view golf as a rich man’s game, and maybe it is, but not in this park. A senior or a veteran can play nine holes for $16, and a kid can play for less. These little municipal courses (golfers call them munis) are places where anyone can meet up on a Saturday, play for a few bucks, have a hot dog and tell some jokes. No membership required.

If Mr. Trump makes a championship course out of it, it’s likely to cost way more. The cheapest round on a recent day at Trump National Doral in Miami was $215. A hot dog was $24.

… “President Trump built some of the greatest golf courses in the world, and he is now extending his unmatched design skills and excellent eye for detail to D.C.’s public golf courses,” said Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman. “The president and his extraordinary team will redevelop these decrepit golf courses in our nation’s capital to restore glamour and prestige.”

But it’s a public park. It wasn’t designed to be glamorous or prestigious.

The president seems to be in some sort of Pharaonic legacy-building mode, treating the capital as his great sandbox. He has initiated so many construction projects, it’s hard to imagine how all of them will be completed (or even funded) by the time he leaves office.

There’s the ballroom, the triumphal arch across the river, a proposed statue garden, plans to rip up Lafayette Park, whatever it is that’s about to happen to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and, now, a bit down river from that, there is this.…”

 

[nycfan]

“… Three top architects who have worked on U.S. Open courses explained what would probably need to happen on the island in order for its course to become “U.S. Open-caliber,” as the president said he wanted.

As it stands, the 210-acre course takes up much of the park, but not all of it. The architects all agreed that the course would need to get bigger. The road that the public uses to bike and run around the island would probably be demolished so that the course could extend to the water’s edge.

The picnic area would have to go, too, and so would the forest of cherry trees. This last point has particularly upset people, since some of those trees are the original cherry blossoms that were sent to Washington in 1910, a gift from the mayor of Tokyo.

Even still, it’s difficult to see how the park could then fit the crowds, parking lots and hospitality venues that go into hosting the kind of tournament Mr. Trump has talked about having….”

 

[finesse]

There's no sacrifice too great to make as a paean to his ego. I thought everyone knew that.

 

[nycfan]

My husband (and I) used to play at this kind of “shabby” muni in the Bronx while in grad school. It’s long gone now but it had a lot of urban charm for folks who couldn’t afford to play anywhere else in the area that was accessible by public transportation. Carrying a golf bag on the subway was pretty funny.

 

[nycfan]

“… Trump International Golf Club in Doonbeg on the west coast in December applied to build the ballroom for 320 guests, with Trump's son Eric telling the Sunday Independent it would be "the nicest ballroom in the country".

… According to the plans, the new ballroom will be 1,240 square meters, a small fraction of the 8,360 square meters of the ballroom planned for the White House.“