Trump Golf Course: Virginia Course's Plaque Honors Civil War Event That Never Happened

[CatWoman]

In Renovation of Golf Club, Donald Trump Also Dressed Up History

STERLING, Va. — When Donald J. Trump bought a fixer-upper golf club on Lowes Island here for $13 million in 2009, he poured millions more into reconfiguring its two courses. He angered conservationists by chopping down more than 400 trees to open up views of the Potomac River. And he shocked no one by renaming the club after himself.

But that wasn’t enough. Mr. Trump also gave its place in history an upgrade.

Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump installed a flagpole on a stone pedestal overlooking the Potomac, to which he affixed a plaque purportedly designating “The River of Blood.”

“Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’ ”

The inscription, beneath his family crest and above Mr. Trump’s full name, concludes: “It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!”

Like many of Mr. Trump’s claims, the inscription was evidently not fact-checked.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/us/politics/in-renovation-of-golf-club-donald-trump-also-dressed-up-history.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[AtomicKitten]

1. That's from the George Costanza school of thought.

[underpants]

2. Again with the "my people" + this nonsense

“How would they know that?” Mr. Trump asked, when told that local historians had called his plaque a fiction. “Were they there?”

[narnian60]

3. Couldn't get past the

"chopping down 400 trees" part. Disgusting.

[countingbluecars]

5. It is disgusting

and Trump made campaign contributions to local Republicans to get the golf course fast tracked. The environmental damage is done.

[Scurrilous]

4. They should reword it to commemorate Trump's "River of B.S."

"Many American brain cells died at various spots..." "The B.S. was so great that faces would turn red listening to it, from what became known as Trump's River of B.S."

[MisterP]

6. Elaine: Six hundred and twenty MILLION people died.

Jerry: Thousand.

Elaine: Thousand. Six hundred and twenty thousand. The horror, the horror. (To Jerry) The wife keeps giving us dirty looks. Are you sure you gave him the right directions?