Opinion: Trump’s Latest Teardown Project Is Already Veering Off Course

REUTERS/Daniel Heuer It was not par for the course. Word started to spread when golfers in D.C. noticed trees being taken down at a beloved public golf course, East Potomac Golf Links—especially a distinctive and much admired cherry tree on the 14th hole. Cherry trees are iconic in the nation’s capital. When a number of them had to be removed two years ago from the nearby Tidal Basin, a scraggly survivor, dubbed Stumpy, won the nation’s hearts, to the point where its cuttings were used to grow…