With 15 days until the midterm elections, and more than 9.5 million ballots already cast, the president of the United States used the social media platform he owns to announce that the U.S. Department of the Interior had “developed a plan to build a World Class Championship Golf Course on the site of the current East Potomac Golf Links, located in Washington, D.C. When completed, it will be open to the Public while, at the same time, designed to the Highest Level of Golf and able to hold World Class Tournaments such as the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup, and the Presidents Cup.”

This morning the president added that East Potomac Golf Links are currently “a terrible and very unsafe golf course,” and that the proposed plan will “make it into a........

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