WASHINGTON ― As President Donald Trump takes over Washington DC's police force and brings in the National Guard, he isn't just talking about clearing homeless camps and reducing the murder rate.
He wants to rip out and replace the grass at DC parks.
"We're going to be redoing the parks, redoing the grass," Trump said on Aug. 13 as he named the latest slate of Kennedy Center honorees from Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. "You know, grass has a lifetime, like people have a lifetime. And the lifetime of this grass is long. It's been gone, when you look at the parks."
Trump's push for a grass makeover comes as he's vowed not only to tackle crime in the nation's capital but to also make DC "so beautiful again." Echoing the language of his long career in real estate, Trump has talked about DC like he might a fixer-upper property. He wants graffiti painted over, litter picked up and ‒ yes ‒ grass replaced at parks.
"The grass is old, tired, exhausted," Trump said. "We're going to be redoing the grass with the finest grasses. I know a lot about grass because I own a lot of golf courses. And if you don't have good grass, you're not in business very long."
