Donald Trump loves to golf, and if you don’t believe it all you have to do is look at the estimated cost to taxpayers for the president’s excursions across the past year.
HuffPost estimated that the president spent more than $71 million golfing in 2025, and that was on the conservative side compared to the website DidTrumpGolfToday.com. The site has tracked the president’s trips since he returned to office, and it pinned the whopping cost to taxpayers at $110,600,000 in the first year of his second term.
The president’s affinity for the game, though, now finds him as the subject of a lawsuit from a pair of golfers — Dave Roberts and Alex Dickson — in Washington, D.C.
What’s the story?
Well, Trump has been attempting to take over a pair of public golf courses in D.C., and there are folks who are not happy about that. So, Robers and Dickson, who describe themselves as “frequent patrons” of East Potomac Golf Links, according to the Washington Post, are now suing Trump to stop his overhaul of the club.
The duo is teaming with The DC Preservation League to bring the suit which “seeks to halt the project, vacate federal approvals and block any reassignment or termination of the existing lease, pending a full review.”
According to The Spun, the lawsuit claims there are possible violations of the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.”
Trump previously said he plans to make the course “a beautiful, world-class, U.S. Open- caliber course.”
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers responded to the lawsuit by saying that Trump has “built some of the greatest golf courses in the world, and he is now extending his unmatched design skills and excellent eye for detail to D.C.’s public golf courses.
“The president and his extraordinary team will redevelop these decrepit golf courses in our nation’s capital to restore glamour and prestige.”