President Donald Trump said Thursday he would “rebuild” national park sites in the nation’s capital by the end of the year, joking that owning golf courses had made him “very good at grass.”
“We’re going to be re-grassing all your parks, all brand-new sprinkler systems, the best that you can buy,” the president said from the Park Police’s Anacostia operations facility in Washington, where he had gone to meet with officers and National Guard troops he had ordered deployed in the city.
Joined by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and other officials, the president said the city’s federal parks will soon look like the course in Augusta, Georgia, where the Masters Tournament is held every year.
“It’ll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club,” he said.
