East Potomac Park
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Oct 17, 2026
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
We're gonna talk today about DOGE and FOIA, uh, two acronyms that I know you all will know about and are gonna enjoy hearing about.
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
Then we're gonna talk about East Potomac Park and another vanity project by Donald Trump, and about DOJ's suing California.
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
I also note they're suing Evanston, my hometown, but we're not gonna get to that today.
Jill Wine-BanksHOST
Before we talk about all those things, I wanna ask both of you, what is your favorite ever Halloween costume and, or costumes? You can name more than one, but tell me the ages you were when you wore them.
Josh BarroHOST
Yes.
Josh BarroHOST
Meanwhile, Judge Ana Reyes has that golf course case, the one East Potomac Park, right on one of these things in the vicinity of the White House that the president is doing his landscaping bit.
Josh BarroHOST
He wants to build a championship style golf course there.
Josh BarroHOST
There's been litigation over it.
Andrew BrancaHOST
In light of Judge Reyes's actions here and in other high-profile litigation involving the Trump administration, no reasonable observer could consider Judge Reyes sufficiently impartial to adjudicate this case.
Andrew BrancaHOST
While Judge Reyes has claimed she has given the government every single benefit of the doubt, in reality she has hamstrung the government's legitimate attempts to maintain East Potomac Park from the outset.
Andrew BrancaHOST
While Judge Reyes formally declined to enter any order against the government until this week, in May she effectively granted plaintiffs veto power over any significant maintenance at the park," this is the golf course, "explaining that in May, Judge Reyes told the government, 'If anyone orders big things to show up at the park, and by big things I mean anything, you know, more than my sedan, then I want plaintiffs to have notice.' To name just a few examples of bias, Judge Reyes has unfairly questioned Trump administration attorneys' intelligence, allowed her disdain for the Trump administration to influence how hearings unfold, and systematically disregarded basic separation of powers principles and Article III constraints on judicial authority." They have, uh, testimony from one attorney saying, or from a, a journalist, "Reyes is yelling now.
Andrew BrancaHOST
We're fact-finding in real time." That was a post on X.
Tom SherwoodHOST
... and this is what he's done here, the East Wing of the White House, the arch that he's tr- we'll get to in a moment.
Tom SherwoodHOST
Uh, I bike over at East Potomac Park, where Haines Point is located, and it's c- it's, it's an outrage that all those trees were taken down.
Don BeyerGUEST
I'll just say thank God for the judiciary.
Don BeyerGUEST
You know, the number one question from my constituents the last two years has been, "Well, what are you doing? How can you stop the things that we don't like about the Trump administration?" And the truth is, so far, in the minority, we've not been able to do a lot in Congress, but we've been relying on the courts.
Don BeyerGUEST
You know, we're, we're lucky in the DC area that every jurisdiction's fighting for as much tree cover as possible.
Don BeyerGUEST
And just the-
Tom SherwoodHOST
And the thousands of people who use the East Potomac Park.
Don BeyerGUEST
Yeah, and just the tragedy of, you know, those trees take tens of years, scores of years to grow-
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
A federal judge is looking for some explanation today from Team Trump as to why those taxpayer-funded TV ads, the self-aggrandizing Trump TV ads, were still airing Sunday night despite an order this weekend from the judge that they be halted.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
We're going to have to get an explanation from the Trump administration as to why there was some game of telephone that didn't have the ads pulled off the air or whether this was another alleged deliberate defiance of the court by the Trump administration, which has already taken all kinds of grief this week for chopping down those four hundred thirty trees at East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., despite a court order that they not do so.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
Congress, at least the Democrats in Congress and the House Oversight Committee, are expanding their investigation of Kimberly Guilfoyle, whether or not she is in fact gone as U.S. ambassador to Greece.
Scott MacFarlaneHOST
The House Oversight Committee has, in a new memo to Guilfoyle, told her to preserve her records, her communications, including with the Trump donor who she's accused of trying to push to help pay off her Amex bill and with top Department of Justice officials between twenty twenty-four and present day.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
And in the meantime, you've got hundreds of cases where judges have had to castigate and admonish the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for their just fundamental disobedience of the law, lying to the court, violating court orders.
Jamie RaskinGUEST
Another one came down today about East Potomac Park-
Chris HayesHOST
Mm-hmm
Jamie RaskinGUEST
... where the judge had told them, "Don't touch any of the trees there," and they knocked down hundreds of trees.
Jim AcostaHOST
When you have...
Jim AcostaHOST
And I know that the tree issue over in East Potomac Park in DC is not the biggest thing in the world.
Jim AcostaHOST
I understand that.
Jim AcostaHOST
But when a judge says, "Don't knock down trees," and they go knock down trees, you know, when, when a, another federal judge says, "Get your name off the Kennedy Center," and they put up a tarp and thumb their nose at the judge there, when they're told not to air propaganda ads paid for by taxpayers, and they continue to run the ads, and, and they make these judges pull their hair out, I, I just wonder, you know, at what point d- Is there some accountability? Are there consequences, Glenn? How do we get to that place?
Jackie PizerPANELIST
Hi, Mike.
Michael SchafferHOST
So we're talking about East Potomac Park again.
Jackie PizerPANELIST
[laughs] We're back.
Michael SchafferHOST
Um, we spent a chunk of Monday slacking about this because there was, like, a bonkers, um, hearing going on, and, uh, we were both, uh, paying attention to it.
Michael SchafferHOST
Uh, I don't even know where to start, but, but, uh, over the weekend, the National Park Service had cut down, I think, 430 trees at, uh, East Potomac Park, which for the uninitiated is right now a sort of humble public golf course with, like, some trails that bicyclists like and, and some trees, which is where Trump wants to put up a sort of luxury elite, uh, golf course.
Michael SchafferHOST
In a court filing, the Park Service said they actually planned to cut down about 100 more trees than they wound up cutting, uh, down.
Michael SchafferHOST
This has been an issue in an ongoing litigation from people who are trying to stop what they term as a, a theft of a public park.
13 MINS LATER
Michael SchafferHOST
What were these previous actions that, that look naive now?
Andrew BrancaHOST
Trump therefore incorporates by reference all the, the prior facts.
Andrew BrancaHOST
The East Potomac Park and East Potomac Golf Course were created from the dredges of the Potomac River.
Andrew BrancaHOST
The East Potomac Golf Course has undergone repeated change over the decades, including individual courses and structures within the golf course.
Andrew BrancaHOST
They've been built, demolished, and altered.
Andrew BrancaHOST
So change is not new to this golf course.
Andrew BrancaHOST
Today, the East Potomac Park and Golf Course are in a state of deteriorate, deterioration and in need of significant maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.
Andrew BrancaHOST
In 2020, the National Park Service leased East Potomac Golf Course to the National Links Trust.
Andrew BrancaHOST
They're in the process of terminating that lease because they don't think the trust is doing a good job.
Todd MikkelsonHOST
There's a park.
Todd MikkelsonHOST
I think it's called the East Potomac Park or something like that.
Todd MikkelsonHOST
Trump wants to change it.
Todd MikkelsonHOST
And it's a golf course.
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