Coast Guard wants to kick boats off Potomac River when Trump is golfing
Source: Washington Post
Coast Guard wants to kick boats off Potomac River when Trump is golfing
With the Trump National Golf Club clubhouse in the background, Camp Calleva kayak instructor Steve McKone helps one of his campers while teaching a lesson on the Potomac River on Monday. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post)
By Peter Jamison July 17 at 3:56 PM
RILEYS LOCK, MD. The Trump family has offended many sectors of establishment Washington since their arrival in the nations capital, from Langleys spymasters to mansion-dwellers in the Districts Kalorama neighborhood. ... But 30 miles north of the White House, a conflict is now brewing on the banks of the Potomac River that pits the presidents interests against those of a very different if no less zealous constituency. This one is armed with paddles.
Citing security concerns, the U.S. Coast Guard says it is adopting a policy of periodically cutting off access to roughly two miles of the Potomac where it borders Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va. ... The restrictions would clear the water of canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards, sailboats, jet-skis, motorboats and anglers when Trump or other senior officials of his government decide to spend a day on the back nine.
The buffer zone is stoking intense concern and opposition among recreational users of the river, who range from Olympic athletes to injured soldiers. The proposed shore-to-shore security area includes Rileys Lock, the embarkation point for a popular summer camp and a kayaking program for wounded and disabled veterans.
Its just heartbreaking, said John Deitle, 41, a former marine who served a combined five tours in Afghanistan and Iraq and receives treatment at Walter Reed for lung problems he says are related to chemical exposure. ... Deitle paddles on this stretch of the Potomac with Team River Runner, a nonprofit that caters to wounded vets. On Sunday afternoon, he stood in a life vest at his put-in point on Seneca Creek, a faded Teufel Hunden tattoo showing on one of his bare upper arms. ... Granted, its his golf course, Deitle said. But he has other golf courses.
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Peter Jamison writes about politics and government in the District of Columbia. Before joining The Washington Post he worked at The Los Angeles Times and The Tampa Bay Times. Follow @petejamison
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As the tweet makes clear, it's not the entire Potomac River. Rather, it's the part of the Potomac River fronted by ***** National Golf Club. You know, the site of that famous Civil War battle. The day the Potomac was renamed "the River of Blood."
I expect later editions will make this clear, but I have to go with the headline I have.
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Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold
New: Coast Guard wants to kick boats off 2 miles of the Potomac River when Trump is golfing
Link to tweet

Beaverhausen
(24,606 posts)How many businesses is he going to ruin with this kind of crap?
barbtries
(30,143 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)IronLionZion
(47,403 posts)
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Maggiemayhem
(865 posts)I am 61 and grew up 30 miles west and don't recall this. Is someone getting confused with the Battle of Antietam?
mahatmakanejeeves
(62,645 posts)Kind of surprising. He's such a stickler for accuracy.
Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 by Dale Peskin
In Donald Trumps world, theres a magic kingdom called Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C. Although it is actually located in Sterling, the presidential candidate insists his kingdom is in Washington, about 25 miles downstream, where he covets a stately, white house on the National Mall.
Trump indulges his fantasy with a castle (clubhouse) that sits on a bluff overlooking Lowes Island in the Potomac. Hes clear-cut 400 trees along the banks of the river to provide an unobstructed view. ... Trump has spent millions turning 800 acres along the Potomac into Trumpland. Now the master marketer whos leading the GOP presidential polls is re-interpreting history.
Unveiling his new golf course on the property earlier this year, Trump paused between the 14th hole and the 15th tee at his monument to history: a plaque designating The River of Blood at a section of the Potomac on Trumpland. ... 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 Trumps full name, concludes: It is my great honor to have preserved this important section of the Potomac River!

Now for the real world. Not much of what Trump says is true. ... No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there, said Richard Gillespie, executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association, a historical preservation and education group devoted to a 1,800-square-mile section of the Northern Virginia Piedmont, including the Lowes Island site. Gillespie clarified Loudoun County history for The Times-Mirror and The New York Times, which were fact-checking Trumps claims.
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Times-Mirror reporter Hannah Dellinger contributed to this story.
Maggiemayhem
(865 posts)And it's on the opposite side of the Potomac. There were incidents in Leesburg, west of Sterling, but our whole area from Gettsyburg to Martinsburg is rich in civil war history. Thanks fo your reply.
mahatmakanejeeves
(62,645 posts)I was in Hillsboro for a family get-together back in June.
Thanks for writing.
Maggiemayhem
(865 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(62,645 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)starving birds, small birds, someone has to THROW 20 feet in the air so a Pa. official can enjoy blasting it with his shotgun. full of LEAD SHOT some MANY POUNDS OF LEAD that falls right into YOUR PA. STATE RIVER
Maggiemayhem
(865 posts)They still use lead shot? No wonder they're f'ing nuts.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)for decades, wildlife eat lead shot and are poisoned, Americas kids are damaged by lead, the birds that fly away can carry disease to local songbirds and besides it is horrible animal Cruelty.
Our State government officials just do NOT care about our country.
LisaM
(28,940 posts)Maggiemayhem
(865 posts)TransCanda is putting in a pipeline under the Potomac River at Hancock Maryland to hookup to a proposed Mountaineer Gas pipeline in WV, which nobody excepting the politicians want. They are waiting on US Park Service permit and have only test bored so far. We could use some help from east Potomac River landowners to stop this.
mahatmakanejeeves
(62,645 posts)Full disclosure: I took kayaking lessons from the Canoe Cruisers Association back in 1989 or so.
The U.S. Coast Guard will block access to the Potomac River at Violettes Lock. This may make it impossible to run the GW Canal/Violettes Lock Loop.
Access to Potomac River at Violettes Lock Blocked by Trump
Security Zone; Potomac River, Montgomery County, MD
Proposed Comments on the Security Zone for Trump Golf Course
Comments on this regulation, Docket Number USCG20170448, should be sent through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov. This is the official way to comment on this regulation. You can also send comments to your Senators and Representatives and encourage them to take an interest in the Potomac River closure. You can look up your senators and representatives at Common Cause. Just enter your address to see a list with contact information. We must take a stand against this.
We have spoken with the US Coast Guard. They said the closure of the Potomac will only occur when Trump is playing golf, or when some other high muckemuck is on the course, but that is not what the regulation says. The regulation is written so that they can close the river permanently. The USCG said they will notify us that the river is closed on VHF channel 16 (How many of you carry a marine radio in your boat?) and on their website.
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https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=USCG-2017-0448-0001
More_Cowbell
(2,207 posts)is a heck of a lot of time.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)They had to place up a giant tarp (on range property) to block view from PUBLICs river.
Yonnie3
(18,331 posts)I worked several wedding ceremonies on top of the artificial waterfall to the left of the clubhouse in this view.
All were on weekends and I recall seeing activity on the river and wishing I was out there.
To quote Twitler, "SAD!"
dembotoz
(16,922 posts)does king donny ever think about anyone else?????????????
seems not
mahatmakanejeeves
(62,645 posts)BY RACHEL SADON IN NEWS ON JUL 17, 2017 6:14 PM
Attorney and competitive kayaker Adam Van Grack was paddling up from the Seneca Breaks on the Potomac River earlier this month when a motor boat sped up to his side. Two armed men told Van Grack that he needed to get to the other side of the riverimmediately.
Every time that President Donald Trump decides to play golf at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, one of the river's most popular kayaking and canoeing spotsused by children all the way up to Olympiansis disrupted. As the Coast Guard moves to implement a permanent security zone in the area, boaters fear that it will severely curtail enjoyment of the area for hundreds of people at a time.
"Shutting down the river so Trump can play golf is impacting a lot of people, not only us recreational paddlers who are out here for fun," says Susan Sherrod, the chairman of the Canoe Cruisers Association, a club and advocacy organization in the area. Several members of the U.S. canoe and kayak team use it regularly for training and Team River Runner paddles in the zone with wounded veterans. A boating school sits on the Maryland shore, and dozens of groups come from outside of the area come to teach kayaking on this section of the river, which offers both flat water and Class 1 and 2 rapids. Motorboats, stand-up paddle boarders, and fisherman are also common sights.
But when the president or other high-ranking officials decide to play golf at Trump National, the Coast Guard sets up a temporary security zone at the request of the Secret Service that places about two miles of the river off limits. ... Since March 24, they've already done so five times. Given the president's voracious golf habit, it seems all but certain that he'll return. ... Foreseeing the need for future security zones, the Coast Guard has implemented an interim rule in the Federal Register, effective July 10, that allows for a complete shutdown of the river to any use, motorized or non-motorized, between Sharpshin Island and Violette's Lock. The Coast Guard is currently taking comments before making it a permanent rule.
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The permanent security zone proposed by the Coast Guard, above. The Canoe Cruisers Association is proposing a less restrictive area that would still allow for use of the river closer to the Maryland shore. (Courtesy of the CCA)
jmowreader
(51,804 posts)"To prevent Evil Mexican Muslim Terrorists from tunneling under our beautiful wall and throwing huge bags of drugs in the Potomac, the Trump Administration intends to close both sides of the Potomac River from the headwaters in West Virginia to the mouth in the Chesapeake Bay.