National Treasure: The White House's Dirty Takeover of Public Golf Courses
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Golf can be for the people. But politics has come to the tee-boxes of D.C., as Trump literally takes a dump on public courses, with a gilded mission to re-shape the people's fairway — and a historically Black home of the sport — in his own image. Garrett Morrison of Fried Egg Golf explains the rubber-stamp meetings, pimp-my-ride addendums and bros in the ear of a president chasing faux-luxury waterfalls, A.I. logos and... asbestos?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:07.0 | What I've heard is that in response to this proposal from Secretary Bergam, President Trump said something to the effect of Doug. |
| 0:16.9 | That's the best idea you've ever had. |
| 0:19.6 | Right after this ad this story is about land it is about |
| 0:29.8 | real estate it's also about golf and i am not the biggest golf expert which is why garrant morrison |
| 0:35.4 | you are here thank you for joining us by the way of. Your specialty is architecture and design and golf courses. But this story, |
| 0:42.1 | as a golf casual, is so much bigger than that. And it starts with a scene that is even |
| 0:48.6 | weirder that I think people realize, because it's Washington, D.C., it's late October, and what is happening? |
| 0:56.7 | So, President Trump is renovating the east wing of the White House. |
| 1:02.7 | Demolition has begun on the east wing of the White House to make way for the president's |
| 1:07.0 | 90,000 square foot ballroom, which is expected to cost around $200 million. |
| 1:11.8 | It's being paid for by... |
| 1:13.2 | I actually don't know that much about that specific renovation project. |
| 1:16.4 | I think I have willfully avoided knowledge about what exactly is going on there. |
| 1:21.0 | You haven't seen the closest thing we've had in American history to that scene in Independence Day |
| 1:25.3 | where, like, the White House explodes and there's like shrapnel and debris. |
| 1:31.7 | It's one of those things where if this was being done by a guy Donald Trump was running against, |
| 1:36.7 | this would just be on loop. |
| 1:39.0 | Endlessly. |
| 1:40.0 | It would be a scandalous image. |
| 1:42.1 | I mean, essentially it's a big pit. |
| 1:48.0 | And so we're digging this big hole. and so we have a lot of dirt. What do we do with the dirt? Where do we take the dirt? |
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