Shawn McCreesh's New York Times article reports that in October 2025 White House dump trucks began piling the rubble of the demolished East Wing — debris from President Trump's ballroom excavation, eventually some 30,000 cubic yards by a Park Service estimate — onto East Potomac Golf Links, an affordable $42-a-round public course on a man-made Potomac island, after which the administration terminated the nonprofit National Links Trust's 50-year lease and took over the course. Trump says he will make it "beautiful, world-class, U.S. Open-caliber," but top architects like Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Mark A. Mungeam call that implausible on the flat, cramped site, and locals like golfer Bryan King mourn the people's course.