President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that a historic public golf course in the nation’s capital will close for 15 months of renovations, pressing ahead with his long-sought redevelopment even as a court challenge remains pending.

In a social media post, Trump said the East Potomac Golf Course, a public course in East Potomac Park along the Potomac River not far from the White House, would shut on Nov. 15 so it can be rebuilt into “one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World.” The post included an artist’s rendering of the proposed redesign and made no mention of the legal fight now surrounding the project.

Last week, a federal judge ordered a halt to the redevelopment plans until at least Oct. 26, reproaching the government for launching a large-scale tree removal at the course over a holiday weekend while giving little advance notice to the court or to the plaintiffs seeking to stop the makeover.

“When completed, it will be open to the Public while, at the same time, designed to the Highest Level of Golf and able to hold World Class Tournaments such as the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup, and the Presidents Cup,” Trump wrote. Venues for those events are selected years in advance by golf’s governing bodies, including the USGA and the PGA of America.

Democracy Forward, the legal organization representing the plaintiffs challenging the renovation, pushed back, arguing that the course is part of a national park and recreation facility meant for everyone to enjoy.

“Our litigation is intended to protect this community jewel for the people and communities it serves and we will continue to work with our plaintiffs to defend it from unlawful and harmful intrusion,” Skye Perryman, the group’s president and CEO, said in a statement.

The judge overseeing the case took note of Trump’s online message and directed the government to notify her by 8 p.m. EDT Sunday whether its position had changed from a court filing on Friday. That filing asserted that “at most” Trump has given “preliminary thought” to the rebuilding plan and that “there is no final agency action.”

Trump, an avid golfer who plays regularly, had already announced plans to remake the course as part of his broader push to renovate and refurbish places around Washington, including the White House and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Many of those projects—including plans for a huge ballroom at the White House, the installation of his own name on the Kennedy Center, and the construction of a massive arch—have been challenged in courts.

The 106-year-old park and course, one of the few public courses in the District, has been the subject of numerous emergency hearings as the president has sought to renovate it. While it has long been open to Washingtonians of all income levels, opponents of Trump’s plan to turn it into a high-end course have argued the change would alter the character of the space and make it less affordable to people. If the announced closure proceeds, golfers would lose access to one of those public options for more than a year.

In his post, Trump echoed the arguments he has made to justify his planned overhaul of the Kennedy Center, contending the course is in such dangerous condition that it needs to close.

“The current Course is old, broken, dilapidated, and of no further use or effect. It is in very poor condition, with falling, dangerous, and disease infested trees and, importantly, a collapsing and hazardous seawall,” Trump wrote.

Debris from the demolition of the White House East Wing—cleared to make way for his ballroom project—has also been dumped on the course’s grounds. The National Park Service has said the debris tested positive for lead, chromium, and other toxic metals.

Trump also defended the National Park Service’s removal of hundreds of trees, an action the judge has paused, writing that when the course was originally built, “it was famous for no trees, with views of Washington, D.C., for all to see, but now, it is completely overgrown, dysfunctional, and unsafe.”

Trump’s post, which lays out a clear plan for construction, complicates a federal court hearing scheduled for Monday in a lawsuit filed by the DC Preservation League and two golfers who oppose the work. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes has ordered key members of the Republican administration to testify on the recent tree-cutting and whether those actions are tied to the president’s plans for the historic public course.

On Friday, the administration asked that Reyes be replaced on the case, questioning her impartiality and citing what it called “egregious” behavior from the bench during an emergency hearing on Oct. 12. The judge’s frustration boiled over in that three-hour hearing, where she lambasted the government’s attorney over the lack of notification she and the plaintiffs received before the trees were cut down.

Reyes is expected to address the request that she step aside at the upcoming hearing. Over the weekend, the plaintiffs asked her to grant a more long-standing preliminary injunction in the case and/or a stay.

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