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A non-profit organisation and 2 residents successful Washington sued U.S. President Donald Trump's medication connected Friday (February 13, 2026), seeking to halt its attempted overhaul of a much than a century-old nationalist play course, a tribunal filing showed.
Since taking bureau successful January 2025, Mr. Trump has targeted U.S. taste and humanities institutions — from museums and monuments to nationalist parks and arts centers — successful an effort to reshape them.
Late past year, the Trump medication cancelled a lease held by the National Links Trust to oversee 3 nationalist play courses successful Washington D.C.
Mr. Trump's Interior Department said it was terminating the 50-year lease the radical received successful 2020 to run the play courses. The bureau accused NLT of failing to marque required investments successful the properties and to wage rent.
NLT disputed the allegations that it defaulted connected its lease oregon had not paid what was required. It said the Interior Department provided small accusation astir the issue.
The suit filed connected Friday successful the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said the Trump administration's reconstruction of East Potomac Park that includes the East Potomac Golf Course violated a legislature enactment from 1897 which said it should beryllium "forever held and utilized arsenic a parkland for the recreation and pleasance of the people."
The U.S. Interior Department was quoted by section media arsenic saying it does not remark connected pending litigation but added it would "ensure these courses are safe, beautiful, open, affordable, enjoyable and accessible for radical visiting" Washington.
The Interior Department and the National Park Service, which is a portion of the department, were named arsenic defendants successful the lawsuit. The plaintiffs included non-profit radical DC Preservation League and Washington residents Dave Roberts and Alex Dickson.
The suit alleged the Trump administration's actions violated biology laws and would pollute a parkland connected the National Register of Historic Places.
