US President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed to be the world’s leading expert on a very unexpected subject: grass.

“I’m pretty good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place,” he said. “I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world.”

Trump was speaking in Washington, DC, where he has called in troops to fight crime in a move critics have decried as a political stunt.

While there, he also vowed to plant new grass to improve the parks.

“Y’know, like everything else, grass has a life. Do you know that? Grass has a life,” he said. “We have a life, and grass has a life, and the grass here died about 40 years ago.”

With new grass and new sprinkler systems, the parks will look like a golf resort, he said.

“It’ll look like Augusta,” he said, referring to the host of the Masters Tournament. “It’ll look like more importantly Trump National Golf Club, that’s even better.”

Trump’s critics on X could hardly believe their ears:

Willie Nelson would like a word...

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