2026-09-03T20:31:29.191Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
当地时间周四，一名联邦法官就总统唐纳德·特朗普将华盛顿一处公共高尔夫球场改造为锦标赛级球场的争议性计划中砍伐树木一事，对自己面临的愤怒情绪和威胁表示无奈。
不过这场原本看似应围绕案件排期展开的听证会，最终以特朗普的反对者接受政府解释告终——政府称砍伐树木属于常规操作。
美国地区法官安娜·雷耶斯指出，今年是美国建国250周年，“一位总统砍伐樱桃树”竟闹上法庭，这颇具讽刺意味，让人联想到与乔治·华盛顿总统相关的那个著名传说。
“民众非常愤怒，”她说道，并补充称自己收到了威胁，其中一名男子威胁称，如果她不“拯救树木”，就会“除掉她”。
“我不为树木说话，我不是罗拉克斯，”她引用苏斯博士的经典童书及其角色的台词，模仿原作的韵律说道，“我是一名法官。”
周四听证会的前奏是，自8月底起，国家公园管理局在该球场砍伐树木一事，引发了当地居民和活动人士数周的担忧、愤怒和猜测。
司法部律师透露，此次共有约150棵树被砍伐，其中77棵为入侵物种，77棵为枯死、濒死或存在安全隐患的树木。该公园内总计约有3800棵树。
“公园内的所有树木都会定期接受监测，以评估其对游客的潜在安全影响，当树木被判定为枯死、长势衰退或存在安全隐患时，我们的树木专家可能会做出移除决定，”内政部在一份声明中告诉CNN。
听证会开始前不久，此案中的特朗普反对者提交了法庭声明，质疑政府关于被砍伐树木腐烂或对球场球员构成威胁的说法。
然而在听证会上，原告方却改口称，他们没有理由质疑砍伐树木的理由。
周四的听证会原本是一场情况通报会，旨在让法官和各方就该球场相关诉讼的下一步进展进行沟通。
特朗普政府此前曾要求驳回此案。周三提交的法庭文件中，内政部援引最高法院近期的裁决——在白宫东翼舞厅建设和邮寄投票行政令相关案件中均支持政府立场——辩称根据这些裁决，本案应予以驳回。
法官并未直接同意这一请求，而是允许法律挑战者修改此前的诉讼，以纳入这些最新的法律进展。雷耶斯表示，若政府随后提交驳回动议，她将迅速作出裁决。
华盛顿保护联盟和两名当地高尔夫球手正敦促法官发布禁令，阻止特朗普政府推进该改造计划。
雷耶斯是前总统乔·拜登任命的法官，此前她曾拒绝叫停球场改造工程，因为她不认为有任何法律被违反。
今年夏天，她曾要求双方达成协议，要求特朗普政府在诉讼初步程序进行期间，向法院通报任何新的球场改造活动。
雷耶斯周四对政府及时向她通报情况表示满意，不愿下令要求政府采取额外措施，告知法律挑战者其球场规划进程的最新进展。
但她也对保护联盟的担忧表示同情，即政府可能在未提前通知的情况下采取不可逆转的激进行动，而后续法官若认定该行动违法，局面将难以挽回。
“我不想最后只能坐视既成事实，”雷耶斯说道。
作为一名狂热的高尔夫球手，特朗普于今年5月首次公开提出接管并扩建这座市政高尔夫球场的计划。该球场位于国家购物中心以南一片占地300英亩的人工半岛上。
内政部长道格·伯古姆公布了由福齐奥设计公司负责的改造效果图。该设计公司由知名高尔夫球场设计师汤姆·福齐奥所有，他曾设计特朗普的贝德明斯特高尔夫球场以及总统的另外三处产业。
目前该球场拥有两个九洞球场和一个十八洞球场。
“就像标志性的公共球场贝斯佩奇黑球场和多利松南球场一样，东波托马克将为国家首都地区的本地居民提供价格实惠、大幅折扣的锦标赛级高尔夫体验，”伯古姆在X平台上配改造效果图写道。
今年6月，特朗普、伯古姆和福齐奥被拍到手持蓝图一同在球场巡视。
改造计划尚未对外公开，但似乎已经更新并更为宏大，几乎要接管整个半岛。原本供新手玩家使用的游乐场、休闲区和一个九洞球场均被取消，取而代之的是单一的十八洞球场。
特朗普在巡视后表示，该球场“年久失修、破败不堪，存在极大安全隐患且设计过时”。
福齐奥今年6月在接受《高尔夫》杂志采访时表示，总统的目标是将该球场升级为“名副其实的国家地标”，能够举办全国性高尔夫锦标赛。
“这位总统是个雷厉风行的人，”福齐奥说道，“他希望尽快完成这项工程，让人们可以享受打球的乐趣，而不是像某些项目那样拖上十年之久。他希望现在就动工。”
改造目标是在2028年夏天前完工，也就是特朗普卸任前。
目前，该政府尚未将计划提交给两个关键联邦机构——华盛顿特区规划委员会（NCPC）和美国美术委员会（CFA）——这两个机构负责审查和批准华盛顿联邦土地上的重大改造项目。
Judge declares she’s ‘not the Lorax’ during hearing on Trump’s DC golf course renovation
2026-09-03T20:31:29.191Z / CNN
A federal judge on Thursday lamented the anger and threats she has faced over the removal of trees as part of President Donald Trump’s controversial effort to turn a public golf course in Washington, DC, into a championship-level one.
But the discussion about the removal of the trees at the East Potomac Golf Course – which dominated a proceeding that ostensibly was about the case schedule – was ultimately resolved with Trump’s opponents accepting the government’s explanation that the trees were chopped down for routine reasons.
US District Judge Ana Reyes noted the irony that this year is America’s 250th birthday and “a president chopping down cherry trees” is a court matter, harkening back to an apocryphal story associated with President George Washington.
“People are pretty upset,” she noted, adding that she has received threats, including from someone who said he would remove her if she didn’t “save the trees.”
“I do not speak for the trees, I am not the Lorax” she said, referencing the famous Dr. Seuss book and character while echoing its cadence of lines, “I am a judge.”
The leadup to Thursday’s hearing involved weeks of concern, anger and speculation among locals and activists over the National Park Service’s removal of trees at the course beginning in late August.
Department of Justice lawyers revealed that about 150 trees – 77 invasive and 77 dead, dying or hazardous trees were cut down. There are around 3,800 trees in the park.
“Trees throughout the park are regularly monitored for potential safety impacts to visitors, and when a tree is determined to be dying, declining or hazardous our arborists may make the decision to remove it,” the Department of Interior told CNN in a statement.
Shortly before the hearing, Trump’s opponents in the case submitted court declarations questioning the suggestions that the removed trees were rotting or a danger to players on the course.
However, during the hearing, the plaintiffs then backed down, saying they didn’t have reason to question the rationale for the tree’s removal.
Thursday’s hearing was scheduled as a status conference for the judge and parties to check in on where the litigation about the course should go next.
The administration has previously sought to dismiss the case. In court filings Wednesday, the Department of Interior pointed to recent rulings from the Supreme Court – siding with the administration in cases concerning the construction of the White House East Wing ballroom and an executive order on mail voting – and argued those rulings meant that the case should be thrown out.
Rather than deciding that request, the legal challengers are being given the okay to amend their earlier lawsuit to take into account those recent legal developments. Reyes indicated she would be willing to decide quickly whatever motion to dismiss the government may file then.
The DC Preservation League and two local golfers are pressing the judge to issue an order that would bar the Trump administration from moving ahead on the plan.
Reyes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, has previously declined to block the work on the course because she was unconvinced that any laws had been broken.
Over the summer she instructed both sides to come to an agreement for the Trump administration to report on any new golf course activity to the court while initial stages of the litigation play out.
Reyes on Thursday expressed her satisfaction with how the government had kept her apprised, and was unwilling to order the administration to take additional steps to notify the legal challengers where the government was in the planning process for the course.
But she also voiced sympathy for the preservation league’s concerns that the administration could take a drastic action without any heads up that would be irreversible if a judge later found the action illegal.
“What I don’t want is to be here with a fait accompli,” Reyes said.
Trump, an avid golfer, first publicly proposed the idea in May about taking over and expanding the municipal golf course that sits on a 300-acre manmade peninsula just south of the National Mall.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum unveiled a rendering of the planned renovations from Fazio Design, a consultancy owned by the noted golf architect Tom Fazio, who designed Trump’s Bedminster golf course and three other of the president’s properties.
The Links currently offers two nine-hole courses and an 18-hole course.
“Like iconic public courses of Bethpage Black & Torrey Pines, East Potomac will offer locals — of the National Capital Region — championship-quality golf at affordable, highly discounted rates,” Burgum posted on X with a rendering of the Links plans .
Trump, Burgum and Fazio were photographed walking the course together in June, blueprints in hand.
Those plans have not yet been made publicly available, but appeared to have been updated and more expansive, with a nearly complete takeover of the entire peninsula. A playground, recreational area and a 9-hole course often used by more novice players have been jettisoned in favor of a single 18-hole course.
Trump said after the visit that the course was “dilapidated, worn out, and very dangerous and outdated.”
Speaking to Golf.com in June, Fazio said the president’s ambition is to upgrade the links to “literally a national monument,” where a national golf championship could be held.
“The president happens to be a guy of action,” Fazio said. “He wants to get this thing done so people can enjoy it, play it, and not one of these ‘10 years down the road and drag it out forever’ things. He wants to get it done now.”
The aim would be for the course to be ready for play by summer 2028, before Trump leaves office.
The administration has not yet brought plans before the two key federal agencies, the National Capitol Planning Commission (NCPC) and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), that review and approve major changes on federal property in Washington.
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