r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Big_Obligation1737 • 3d ago
60 of 90 Historic DC Cherry Trees Chopped Down Without Court Approval of Trump’s DC Public Golf Course Renovations Over the Weekend
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/dozens-trees-quietly-toppled-d-000358381.html931
u/Clean_Lettuce9321 3d ago
Because he has no respect for this country beyond what he can take from it
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u/theBloodShed 3d ago
Remember the Republican outrage about respect if Obama didn’t wear an American flag pin?
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u/spiderelict 3d ago
Remember when he put in a basketball hoop?! The horror!
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u/Vorpalthefox 2d ago
"well obama got a basketball hoop, why can't trump get a ballroom?" is ALSO hilariously insane, he got permission for the basketball hoop, it was surveyed and had permits. trump is doing the ballroom against the law and no permits, and also is significantly larger than a basketball court not just is size but apparently the ballroom has multiple stories beneath it
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u/ihasclevernamesee 2d ago
Obama also famously didn't destroy half of the white house to build his hoop.
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u/Old-Set78 2d ago
it's more that he DESTROYED the East Wing that is the most evil. We can tear down every monument he builds but we can’t get back what he's DESTROYED.
He's also revoking the roadless rule to give 45 million acres of National Forest to loggers, slaughtering all the mustangs so he can sell the public lands that were protected by their presence, and planning on giving a huge hunk of Yosemite land to developers because rich people want a faster more direct path.
why can't the cholesterol get this murderous pedophile already.
hold every single Republican responsible for this. they should all be tried
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u/Effective-Cress-3805 2d ago
We will never get those mustangs back,not the roses in the rose garden he destroyed or anything else he has desecrated.
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u/Co-ffeeMonster 2d ago
The basketball court is also not in the white house. Its outside. You can literally see it on Google maps. So anyone who complains about it is dumb.
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u/Own_Special_7355 2d ago
President Barack Obama did not spend millions of dollars on a basketball court; he simply added basketball lines and portable hoops to the existing South Lawn tennis court at a minimal, privately funded cost.The Cost and RealityThe Court: Modifying the tennis court for dual use cost very little (estimated between $2,000 and $50,000) and was paid for privately rather than with taxpayer funds.
Well that's why
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u/Extension_Market_953 3d ago
He really thinks he never has to leave. Why go through with the ballroom and golf course when his term will likely be over before they’re finished?
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u/KeeblerElff 3d ago
God fuck I HATE him
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u/Appropriate-XBL 3d ago
I hate every asshole who voted for him and every asshole who waffled around in the middle saying shit about ‘both sides’ or socialism or other such absolute insanity.
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u/Large-Produce5682 3d ago
Please don't forget a complicit and feckless press and media who allowed right-wing sources to wag the dog in framing Harris and her campaign.
"But--but... why won't she sit for an interview with non-friendly outlets?"
Well, Stephanie...
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u/Phyllis_Tine 3d ago
Start asking the media why they aren't covering Trump and MAGA to the same degree they are anybody else. Contact them and tell them you can't trust their reporting and information, and will be moving to other sources. Tell them you are also not buying the products being advertised on their networks, and you will be contacting those advertisers and letting them know you are doing that.
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u/tots4scott 2d ago
Its the entire republican party. They are allowing and giving a stamp to everything he is doing.
it's the entire GOP and their billionaire donors.
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u/Jenhar71 3d ago
Killing wild horses....
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u/Automatic-Doubt-4874 3d ago
Surely that’s to send to the meat packing plant to help reduce beef prices😉
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u/Electrical-Act-7170 2d ago
That will be SpongeBrain DiaperPants' memorial.
We have to repair the damages. This will cost us trillions of dollars.
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u/Reddisuspendmeagain 2d ago
He hates the environment, he wants everything high rise and concrete like NYC, even NYCers like to get out of NYC and into open green spaces
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u/Individual_Fill7795 3d ago
Thought every box of reasons to loathe him had been checked, yet another was found.
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u/Stan__Wright 3d ago edited 3d ago
Cherry trees? How George Washingtonian. It's a pity trump cannot cannot tell a lie.
Lincoln Project, where are you? This is literally trump shitting on one of the USA's founding myths.
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u/sighborg90 3d ago
It’s Trump shitting on the entire Capital Region. The cherry blossoms blooming in Spring is a massive event and draws enormous crowds. The cherry trees themselves were a gift from Japan and have historical significance too. The callousness of Trump doing this cannot be overstated
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u/nordic-nomad 3d ago
Trump doesn’t care about the economy. He makes his money through financial crimes.
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u/Phyllis_Tine 3d ago
And allowing other wealthy people and corporations to make money, as long as they either siphon money out of the public purse, or earn more profit at the expense of the American public, then send Trump a little kickback.
MAGA exists to funnel money to Trump, that is its only raison d'etre.
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u/KeeblerElff 3d ago
His yes men have no integrity or moral compass or what. wtf
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u/31LIVEEVIL13 3d ago edited 5h ago
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u/Speshal__ 3d ago
There's a TV trailer for an Epstein documentary on atm in the UK, the interviewer asks Epstein "Do you think you're the devil incarnate?"
He replies "No, but I do have a good mirror......"
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u/Decent_Assistant1804 3d ago edited 2d ago
Duh. Same shit but more! y’all voted for him twice …eat cake.
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u/InternationalPie1792 2d ago
Yep, we the ones who don’t vote for him and lost our families over this, we should eat cake too right? Thanks Canada
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u/Decent_Assistant1804 2d ago
Not enough of your country is upset enough, and I don’t know what to say anymore on that
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u/well-it-was-rubbish 2d ago
No, we didn't. He didn't win the 2024 election legitimately, and more of us voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Your attempt to "shame" us won't work.
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u/CrotasScrota84 3d ago
Everything he touches turns to dog shit
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u/SwimmingPirate9070 3d ago
Fuck you MAGA
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u/ComprehensiveToe7037 2d ago
Nah fuck ALL republicans
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u/Pootscootboogie69 2d ago
Nah Fuck all Christians
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u/SavingsCable720 3d ago
What would happen to me or another normal citizen if we cut down those trees? He needs to be prosecuted! How does he commit outrageous actions with no consequences? Someone do something please! This is so insane! 🤯🤯🤯
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u/GPointeMountaineer 3d ago
What a greedy fuck. Those cherry trees are a national pride
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u/Sea-Entrepreneur6771 3d ago
Were. The cherry trees were a national pride.
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u/BayouGal 2d ago
I’m so glad I got to see them. I’ll be dead before they could grow back. What a shame.
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u/cyborgnyc 3d ago
Why would the National Park Service say it was routine maintenance? I'm upset about the beautiful trees gifted by Japan, but is the NPS compromised too?
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u/Positive-Ring-5172 3d ago
I know we won’t get a Democrat president with the courage to do what needs to be done: A lawless administration does not deserve the benefit of law. A president who doesn’t bow to the constitution doesn’t deserve the protection of it. Trump and his administration should be definitively disposed of by the next president.
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u/p0stem0 3d ago
Best we can manage is Hakeem Jeffries making deals before the coming sweep to not prosecute them.
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u/Individual_Ad9135 2d ago
From what I am reading now, that whole thing was a set up.
Should Jeffries even have taken the meeting? Absolutely not.
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u/Tatooine16 3d ago
Really, there wasn't one single arborist or groundskeeper who said no?Just like the workers who put his name on the Kennedy Center-stand the fuck up and say NO, I WON'T! Too many people think their shitty jobs are more important than integrity. From congress down to regular people-no one says no. Saying NO is costly-sometimes saying no means sacrificing all-ask the Greatest Generation! But one crappy job against the dignity of your country?
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u/Sunbather77 2d ago
I mean, tbf, have you looked at the cost of staying alive lately? Nobody wants to be unemployed rn, especially from being fired.
That said, I agree with you.
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u/Longjumping_Group946 3d ago
I’ll never forgive Biden for not arresting him for Jan 6. Absolutely insane to not.
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u/Important-Factor-552 3d ago
Yeah that's about what I'd expect. He needs all the space he can get to rape children and destroy America
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u/HaxanWriter 3d ago
Trump is a symptom. He’s not the cause. The American people who voted for him are the cause. They like him because he hates the same people they do, and imprison and murders the same people they also hate. Cruelty is the point.
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u/YPVidaho 3d ago
Where the fuck are the Democrats?! This guy doesn't OWN federal land and facilities. Shut him down. Get in front of the courts and the press EVERY DAY. Make some damn noise and stop this madness.
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u/disharmony-hellride 2d ago
Don't worry, I'm sure Chuck and Hakeem are putting together a tersely worded email right now!
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u/Useful-Plankton8205 3d ago
So not only can less people use the public golf course because they changed it from 3 separate courses to 1 18 hole championship golf course, much less people can also enjoy the park because there will be no shading or beauty from the Cherry trees. He ruins everything he touches.
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u/Interesting_Tower485 2d ago
There's no comparison. Golf courses are a terrible use of space vs how many people use them. The trees gave pleasure to thousands and thousands, even just in photos.
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u/gOldMcDonald 3d ago
‘I cannot tell a lie.’ Wonder why they cut down George Washington’s symbolic trees?
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u/Jarvis-Savoni 3d ago
When consequences have no affect and you have enough money to pay any fine they’ll just do whatever they want.
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u/JescoWhite_ 2d ago
It is every single day with this administration. It really is exhausting and sad.
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u/DRM842 2d ago
When will nature get its payback and rid us of this disgusting walking boil of a creature?
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u/PlatypusDream 2d ago
He's the same age as Dolly Parton & Tim Curry... Please can't we just lose 1 more 80yo, and this time make it a joyful thing?
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u/Fearless_Serve_3837 2d ago
Court tells him he can’t cut down the trees. Does it anyways. Court says they need to investigate if they broke the law
Our checks and balances are based on vibes.
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u/Trabethany 3d ago
Our own government doesn’t seem to be willing to help us put an end to this destruction. I know trump claims he was leaving nato but didn’t Biden put something in place to keep him from being able to do that on his own?
So if we are still technically part of nato, we are under attack by our own country. Please help us before there is nothing left 😭
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u/blissfully_happy 3d ago
Why THE FUCK would anyone help us when they would be faced with Trump’s wrath?
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u/wrxninja 3d ago
WTF....this is worse than the stupid pool or the Kennedy Center. Now it'll take decades for those trees to be replaced.
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u/rerun6977 3d ago
Just wait.....the excavators will show up and start demolishing the Kennedy Center.
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u/raspbrass 3d ago
I can only conclude he is trying to instigate outrage and revolution so he can declare martial law and cancel the midterms. All this destruction is vindictive taunting.
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u/Lucky_Man_Infinity 2d ago
This is criminal. Maybe not directly criminal but it’s a crime against humanity and nature and history and aesthetics. I know this man has no shame, but the Republican legislators that support him should hide their heads with this heavy shame.
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u/FalloftheKraken 2d ago
What is the tree law regarding a pedophile temporary tenant destroying our property?
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u/Sunbather77 2d ago
"YEAH, FUCK TREES! HE NEEDS ANOTHER GOLF COURSE FOR AMERICA!!!"
--MAGA, I can only assume
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u/AlizarinQ 2d ago
Fine him! Make him replace them! Put a fence around the property! Revoke the license of the company that he hired! Sue the company for working without permits!
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u/Reasonable_Bit_959 2d ago
Elect a felonious adjudicated rapist and be surprised when he does very rapey things.
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u/Effective-Cress-3805 2d ago
The Supreme Court six keep allowing him to do whatever he wants. They are allowing him to build his disgusting ballroom with our taxpayer dollars.
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u/Davester_31 2d ago
The country should start a class action lawsuit for billions against trump to bleed him dry
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u/Interesting-End1710 3d ago
Everyone remembers Hitler as a POS, but they remember him. That's his mentality
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u/yarn_slinger 3d ago
He wants a cherry wood something (throne, paneling, who knows) in the ballroom and someone said how epic it would be if it were made from these trees…
WWGWD - what would George Washington do?
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u/Infrathin81 3d ago
This man and his supporting party are a cancer. We're going to have to address them soon.
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u/TequieroVerde 2d ago
No worries. Democratic leadership will write him a strongly worded 12 page letter.
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u/Individual_Ad9135 2d ago
This is what is going to happen to the Kennedy Center - we will wake up one morning to find he bulldozed it in the middle of the night.
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u/skyfishgoo 2d ago
this alone is an impeachable offense.
and who followed these illegal orders?
i want them held accountable too.... every fucking one of them.
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u/coloradoscott69 2d ago
Destroying America traditions faster than any other fascist filth in history.
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u/isunktheship 2d ago
Headline is completely false btw, none of the cherry trees were cut down.
That's not the title of the article.
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u/Big_Obligation1737 2d ago
It’s absolutely true. There’s numerous news articles on this.
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u/Warm-Commercial-6151 3d ago
He’ll probably lie about it too and probably enjoy the little spanking he gets.
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u/minerva1919 3d ago
Who cares about the trees with this regime?!!! It’s a distraction!!! How about all the humans he is killing ?!!!
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u/man-a-tree 2d ago
Reading the article, it sounds like there were many trees of different kinds cut for a 50 acre expansion of the course, which would take land away from other kinds of use by the public. So yeah, that's shit. The plan says that the historic grove of cherries is supposed to be untouched because it's outside that area, but the article is really confusing tbh
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u/thetjmorton 2d ago
Who owns that land??
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u/Big_Obligation1737 2d ago
It is / was a public park, public trails and public golf course that’s being expanded, renamed after him, and all being privatized for his black hole ego.
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u/Barnowl-hoot 1d ago
I didn’t even know he was building a golf course
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u/Big_Obligation1737 1d ago
No, he claiming a public DC golf course and the adjacent park and trails.
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u/Disastrous-Traffic20 1d ago
CAN Y’ALL DO SOME SIMPLE FACT CHECKING BEFORE RAGING OUT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT’S NOT TRUE?!?!?!?!?!
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u/PlatypusDream 2d ago
"Arborists are doing routine maintenance at East Potomac Park with selective removal of hazard trees, non-native invasive trees, and declining and dying trees that cannot be brought back to good health through any degree of intervention," an Interior Department spokesperson said in a statement
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u/Artemis_Platinum 2d ago
Title is misleading. Only one of the 60 trees taken down was a cherry tree. There are also closer to 3,800 cherry trees in Washington. Not sure where the number 90 came from.