2026-10-12T16:22:24.599Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/politics/judge-furious-trees-cut-down-washington-dc-golf-course
美国一名联邦法官周一表示，她对特朗普政府上周末的行动感到“震怒”：政府从华盛顿特区一处公共高尔夫球场砍伐了至少430棵树，而该球场正是唐纳德·特朗普总统寻求翻新的项目。
负责审理特朗普翻新东波托马克高尔夫球场计划相关法律诉讼的美国地区法官安娜·雷耶斯，在周一的紧急听证会过后，暂时叫停了所有进一步的树木砍伐行动，暂停令将持续至周二下午。
“我其实不认为法院应该扮演‘公园与娱乐’的角色，”雷耶斯说道，但她认为，如果没有法院的禁令，政府会继续砍伐数百棵更多的树木。
“所以现在我们所有人都得进行一场大规模的应急演练，因为政府不值得信任，”她说道。
雷耶斯在听证会伊始就告诉司法部律师，他们已经失去了她的“信任”，因为他们在砍伐树木前不到一天的时间才发出通知。
“现在我不仅仅是心烦和愤怒，我对政府简直失望透顶，”雷耶斯说道。当一名司法部律师称他们已经尽了“最大努力”提前告知她和原告时，该法官提高嗓门说道：“不，你们完全是在敷衍了事。”
“我现在一点都不觉得好笑，”雷耶斯还说道。
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她要求两名国家公园管理局官员出席这场持续了三个多小时的虚拟听证会，就砍伐树木计划的出台过程作证。其中一名官员作证称，该项目源于10月5日的一场会议，会上他接到指令，要执行一项已有七年之久的提案，旨在恢复该球场的“文化”遗产。
雷耶斯表示，官员们未能给出任何需要突然砍伐数百棵树的理由，她还要求内政部一名由特朗普任命的高级官员在周二出庭作证。在司法部质疑证词的关联性后，该法官表示，法院似乎被误导了，对方隐瞒了政府对该球场的计划。
“这关系到我是否被欺骗了，是否在关于球场计划的声明中被欺骗了，是否在相关事项的时间安排上被欺骗了，”由总统乔·拜登任命的雷耶斯说道。
该公园是特朗普在华盛顿特区推进的多个翻新项目之一。政府希望将这处公共球场改造为专业球场——翻新成本可能在2000万至4900万美元之间——该计划一直深陷诉讼，并激怒了诸多人士，他们担心这会夺走美国首都一处面向公众且价格亲民的高尔夫球场。
内政部周五晚间首次在一份文件中公布了树木砍伐计划，文件中将砍伐树木描述为一项长期维护计划的一部分，与“球场的翻新或重新设计”无关。工作人员周六早上就已在公园内开始砍伐树木。
国家广场和纪念公园主管凯文·格里斯周一作证称，他的团队上周制定了计划，确定了具体要砍伐的树木。他的团队原本还计划从公园其他区域再砍伐100多棵树。
他表示，砍伐计划现在得以推进，是因为今年夏天为美国250周年活动调配的国家公园管理局人力和资源近期已到位。他说，自己了解特朗普重新改造高尔夫球场的计划，仅来自社交媒体。
格里斯的团队是在执行国家公园管理局一名高级官员的指令，该官员上周告知他们执行2019年的《文化景观报告》计划。该报告提议将东波托马克高尔夫球场及其他球场改造得更接近其最初开放时的风貌。
这名官员是国家公园管理局运营副主任弗兰克·兰兹，他表示，自己在10月5日与内政部副幕僚长、政治任命官员格雷格·维舍尔的一场会议中，接到了执行该计划的指令。兰兹称，他被告知要在“切实可行”的情况下尽快执行该计划，同时要确保安全、不影响高尔夫球赛事，并完成相应的环境评估。两名官员都无法回答法官提出的、关于砍伐树木项目最终将耗费纳税人多少钱的问题。
兰兹表示，在上周之前，他曾参与过一些关于2019年文化修复建议的讨论，其中一些讨论也涉及这些建议如何与特朗普改造高尔夫球场的计划相契合，但他并不了解这些细节。兰兹透露，两三个月前，他与顶级高尔夫球场设计师汤姆·法齐奥见了面，并带他参观了球场，但该官员作证称，自那以后他没有再就特朗普提议的翻新事宜与法齐奥或白宫进行过沟通。
听证会结束时，雷耶斯指出，一些参与近期树木砍伐行动的机构官员曾在法庭声明中声称，没有具体计划实施特朗普提议的球场翻新工程。
雷耶斯指责政府“言行不一”，并表示官员们认为不必在法庭声明中提及树木砍伐计划，这“太荒谬了”。她还将下达一项命令，要求政府在本案审理期间，任何关于该高尔夫球场的计划（包括树木砍伐等）都必须提前72小时发出通知。
Judge ‘furious’ as 430 trees are chopped down from golf course Trump wants to renovate
2026-10-12T16:22:24.599Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/politics/judge-furious-trees-cut-down-washington-dc-golf-course
A federal judge on Monday said she was “furious” with the Trump administration’s move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate.
US District Judge Ana Reyes, who is overseeing a legal challenge to Trump’s plans to overhaul the East Potomac Golf Course, put a tentative hold on any further tree removal through Tuesday afternoon after an emergency hearing Monday.
“I actually don’t think courts should be playing ‘Parks and Rec,” Reyes said, but she believed that, without any order from the court, the administration would move forward with chopping down hundreds of more trees.
“So now we are all going to have a massive fire drill because the government can’t be trusted,” she said.
Reyes began the hearing by telling Justice Department attorneys they had lost “credibility” with her because they gave less than a day’s notice before cutting down the trees.
“More than just being upset and furious right now, I am just beyond disappointed with the government,” Reyes said. When a DOJ attorney said they had done their “best” to give her and the plaintiffs a heads-up, the judge said, her voice raised, “No, you did your absolute worst.”
“I am thoroughly unamused right now,” Reyes also said.
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She demanded that two National Park Service officials appear at the virtual hearing, which lasted more than three hours, to testify about how the plans to remove the trees came to be. The project came out of an October 5 meeting, one of the officials testified, during which the official was told to carry out a seven-year-old proposal seeking to restore the course’s “cultural” heritage.
Reyes said the officials failed to provide any reason for why hundreds of trees needed to be removed so suddenly and will require that a top Trump appointee at the Interior Department testify Tuesday. After a Justice Department questioned the relevance of the testimony, the judge said it appeared the court had been misled about the administration’s plans for the course.
“The question goes to whether or not I have been lied to, whether I have been lied to in declarations about the plans, whether I have been lied to about the timing of things,” Reyes, who was appointed to the bench by President Joe Biden, said.
The park is one of several renovation projects Trump is working on in Washington, DC. The administration’s desire to turn the public course into a professional course — a renovation that could cost between $20 million and $49 million — has been wrapped up in litigation and angered those who fear it may take away a public and affordable place to play golf in the nation’s capital.
The Interior Department first gave notice of the tree removal plans on Friday evening in a filing describing the tree-chopping as part of a long-standing maintenance plan that was not connected to “renovation or redesign of the Golf Course.” Crews were at the park by Saturday morning chopping down the trees.
Kevin Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, testified Monday that his office came up with the plan last week that identified the specific trees that were to be cut down. His office had planned to remove another 100-plus trees from other areas of the park.
He said the removal plan was moving forward now because resources and NPS workforce that had been surged for the America 250 events over the summer had recently become available. He said the only awareness he had of Trump’s own plan to redo the golf course was from social media.
Griess’ office was carrying out a directive from a top National Park Service official, who had told them last week to carry out a 2019 plan known as the Cultural Landscapes Report. The report proposed making East Potomac and other golf courses look more in line with how they looked when they first opened.
That official, Frank Lands, the NPS deputy director of operations, said he was given the instruction to implement 2019 recommendations at an October 5 meeting with Greg Wischer, a political appointee, who is the Interior Department’s deputy chief of staff. Lands said he was told to execute the plan as soon as “practicable,” while doing so in a way that was safe, didn’t disrupt golf play and that completed the appropriate environmental reviews. Neither official could answer the judge’s questions about how much the tree removal project will ultimately cost taxpayers.
Lands said that before last week, he had been involved in some discussions the 2019 cultural recommendations and that some of those discussions also touched how those recommendations would fit with Trump’s plans for remaking the golf course, but Lands wasn’t “privy” to those details. Lands revealed that two or three months ago, he met with premiere golf course architect Tom Fazio and showed him the course, but the official testified he had not spoken to Fazio or the White House about Trump’s proposed renovation since then.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Reyes noted that some of the same agency officials who were involved in carrying out the recent tree removal had submitted court declarations asserting that there were no concrete plans to implement Trump’s proposed overhaul for the golf course.
Reyes accused the administration of “double speak” and said it was “preposterous” for the officials to think that they didn’t have to include the tree removal plans in their court declarations. She will also issue an order requiring the administration to give 72 hours notice of any plans for the golf course, tree removal or otherwise, while the case plays out.
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