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riversedge

(82,257 posts)
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 05:58 AM 9 hrs ago

Donald Trump's golf club seeks approval for 11,330-square-foot expansion, and it has little to do with golf

Source: msn



Story by Sneha Abraham • 7h

A golf club applying for a building expansion is not unusual. But when the club belongs to the sitting U.S. president, and the addition is not a fairway, the application is anything but routine.

Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., has filed an application to add an 11,330-square-foot ballroom and covered rooftop terrace to its clubhouse.

A Golfweek report published on June 24 stated that the Bedminster Township Land Use Board will discuss an application from Lamington Farm Club LLC, the company that runs Trump National Golf Club on Lamington Road, at its August 13 meeting.

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The project must meet several requirements before it can move ahead. According to Golfweek, a review by Boswell, the township’s engineering firm, found that the proposed ballroom expansion would increase sewage flow and require approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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The application for the Bedminster project comes at a time when Trump’s separate ballroom project at the White House is also dealing with legal and financial issues....................

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/donald-trump-s-golf-club-seeks-approval-for-11-330-square-foot-expansion-and-it-has-little-to-do-with-golf/ar-AA26Hmot?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6a40ebdfc4694ce5a7abd919028b8ad6&ei=8



Another Trump ballroom.

Construction cannot begin until the permits are approved, and that process could take between nine and 12 months. The club will also need to build a larger sewage treatment facility near the tennis courts on its property.

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Construction cannot begin until the permits are approved, and that process could take between nine and 12 months. The club will also need to build a larger sewage treatment facility near the tennis courts on its property.

www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

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Donald Trump's golf club seeks approval for 11,330-square-foot expansion, and it has little to do with golf (Original Post) riversedge 9 hrs ago OP
We ARE NOT FU@#ing Paying for it! PuraVidaDreamin 9 hrs ago #1
Yep. And he probably plans to entertain there at taxpayer expense. Lonestarblue 9 hrs ago #5
Best little whorehouse... ananda 7 hrs ago #14
At least we'll know, under which cement structure Ivana is buried. 3Hotdogs 8 hrs ago #7
Trump wants his name on everything... GiqueCee 9 hrs ago #2
;-{) THEN THIS Goonch 9 hrs ago #3
This is not accurate. There needs to be a fat slob on a green, along with the golf cart ON the green. 3Hotdogs 8 hrs ago #8
Can't believe he left the clubhouse white instead of gold. KS Toronado 8 hrs ago #9
;-{) Case is on Supreme Court Docket Goonch 4 hrs ago #25
Construction cannot begin until all permits are issued AverageOldGuy 9 hrs ago #4
This is New Jersey, so they slow walk it dave99 9 hrs ago #6
The must be Trump's plan B for his eternal shrine. If they don't stuff the corpse under glass and display it Vinca 8 hrs ago #10
What is it about ballrooms with this guy? The Madcap 8 hrs ago #11
Members of the Post family must talk to him at night Bengus81 7 hrs ago #13
We've seen him dance Bayard 3 hrs ago #27
Are.You.Fuckkking.Kidding.Me??? IcyPeas 7 hrs ago #12
America's Mobutu peppertree 4 hrs ago #26
After he leaves office, he will still be entitled to Secret Service protection. Tanuki 7 hrs ago #15
congress can and shoul remove it moonshinegnomie 6 hrs ago #17
As is Joe Biden. You can later decline it as Biden did as VP Bengus81 4 hrs ago #24
trump is a convicted felon moonshinegnomie 6 hrs ago #16
Is it possible that his entire WH project is an effort to sweep the costs of his NJ ballroom under the rug? Bristlecone 6 hrs ago #18
At least we know where the Whitehouse "ballroom" overcosts will be used. Buddyzbuddy 6 hrs ago #19
What is this dude's obsession with freaking ballrooms??? RazorbackExpat 6 hrs ago #20
He's going to build his own ballroom! This is nuts .... FakeNoose 6 hrs ago #21
"The club will also need to build a larger sewage treatment facility" chouchou 5 hrs ago #22
The answer is "Yes." The Madcap 3 hrs ago #28
So that is why the WH ballroom kacekwl 5 hrs ago #23
Room for more burial plots? Pinback 2 hrs ago #29
Trump wants to be the belle of the ball Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 1 hr ago #30

GiqueCee

(5,082 posts)
2. Trump wants his name on everything...
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 06:37 AM
9 hrs ago

... They should name lethal virus after him, then his name will live on in the infamy it deserves.

3Hotdogs

(15,749 posts)
8. This is not accurate. There needs to be a fat slob on a green, along with the golf cart ON the green.
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 06:52 AM
8 hrs ago

AverageOldGuy

(4,385 posts)
4. Construction cannot begin until all permits are issued
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 06:41 AM
9 hrs ago

And of course Trump will wait for permits.

Vinca

(54,551 posts)
10. The must be Trump's plan B for his eternal shrine. If they don't stuff the corpse under glass and display it
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 07:28 AM
8 hrs ago

forever and ever and ever in the White House grand ballroom, they can always stick him next to the 9th hole.

The Madcap

(2,175 posts)
11. What is it about ballrooms with this guy?
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 07:33 AM
8 hrs ago

It's not the 1920's anymore, but it sure is looking like the run-up to 1929.

Who does he think he is, Fred Astaire?

peppertree

(23,585 posts)
26. America's Mobutu
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 11:29 AM
4 hrs ago

Mobutu was, as you may know, the longtime (and CIA-installed) dictator of what's now the DR Congo.

Already a poor country, he drove what was then Zaire into the ground by basically treating the central bank as his own piggy bank - and generous U.S. and French aid as his personal payments.

And what money didn't end up in European banks and estates, it ended up paying for the construction (using costly European contractors) of several mansions scattered throughout Zaire - one of the largest countries in the world.

One looked like a Chinese temple in the Forbidden City, and another included a runway big enough for a Concord.

Few dared complain.

That's Cheeto's model of governance: that of a craven African dictator.

Tanuki

(16,571 posts)
15. After he leaves office, he will still be entitled to Secret Service protection.
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 08:36 AM
7 hrs ago

I can only imagine the additional taxpayer burden such an expansion will entail.

Bengus81

(10,596 posts)
24. As is Joe Biden. You can later decline it as Biden did as VP
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:51 AM
4 hrs ago

but it's been that way for decades.

Bristlecone

(11,254 posts)
18. Is it possible that his entire WH project is an effort to sweep the costs of his NJ ballroom under the rug?
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 08:59 AM
6 hrs ago

I’d guess that the contractors who do the WH construction will also work on this project. Miraculously the costs for his Bedminster construction will be almost nothing.

“ They did such an unbelievable job on the WH that….”

RazorbackExpat

(1,005 posts)
20. What is this dude's obsession with freaking ballrooms???
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 09:16 AM
6 hrs ago

Nobody gives a flying fukk about his ballrooms, except maybe fellow pedos

FakeNoose

(43,062 posts)
21. He's going to build his own ballroom! This is nuts ....
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 09:26 AM
6 hrs ago

Or ... maybe he's going to bury another ex-wife?!? ....

chouchou

(3,433 posts)
22. "The club will also need to build a larger sewage treatment facility"
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:13 AM
5 hrs ago

WTF ? Is Donald going to overload the present sewage building? Jesus Christ!!

The Madcap

(2,175 posts)
28. The answer is "Yes."
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 12:03 PM
3 hrs ago

His Depends can only hold so much. It will be a toxic waste site on par with Chernobyl.

kacekwl

(9,316 posts)
23. So that is why the WH ballroom
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 10:38 AM
5 hrs ago

is so over budget, now we can pay for this ballroom with the money trump embezzled.

Pinback

(13,723 posts)
29. Room for more burial plots?
Sun Jun 28, 2026, 01:38 PM
2 hrs ago

Too risky to just dump your enemies' bodies in the Loxahatchee River wearing a cement overcoat.

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