Donald Trump "Cheats at the Highest Level" in Golf, According to New Book

[jpak]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/donald-trump-cheats-golf-rick-reilly-commander-in-cheat.html

President Donald Trump is known for having a liberal attitude toward the truth. And that character trait bleeds over to his golf game, according to former Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly. Many had accused Trump of cheating at golf in the past but Reilly decided to dig deep on the issue and wrote a whole book about it titled Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump. It comes out Tuesday but the New York Post got an early look and publishes a few excerpts from the book that includes conversations with dozens of players about the president’s game to conclude that cheating is just the way Trump plays. A rule rather than an exception.

“To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,’” writes Rick Reilly in the book. “He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they aren’t. He cheats whether you like it or not. He cheats because that’s how he plays golf … if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat.” Reilly, who has played with Trump, also mocked Trump’s claim of a 2.8 handicap, a ridiculous allegation when Jack Nicklaus, often considered the greatest golfer in history, has a handicap of 3.4. “If Trump is a 2.8,” Reilly writes, “Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter.”

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[bluestarone]

1. Am i surprised?

HELL NO!!!!!!

[RKP5637]

2. The guy is an absolutely despicable cheat and crook, and that's being nice to him, the MF'er. n/t

[bluestarone]

4. YES!

Everyone he plays with are FUCKING NO GOOD CHEATING BASTARDS!!!!

[True Blue American]

3. Mika said

Trumps way of winning is dropping the ball in the hole!

[Harker]

5. I'd like to see Queen Elizabeth

pole vaulting.

[backtoblue]

8. Its quite a distracting analogy..

I immediately wanted to see it too!

[Harker]

10. She might not clear the bar

but I doubt she'd cheat at it.

Trumpsky likely began dropping strokes his first time out.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. How does Trump manage to round up

a foursome if they know and expect him to cheat? Golf can be competitive and cheating ruins it for everyone else.

[FakeNoose]

9. Everyone plays "customer golf" and Chump is the only customer

The article in the OP says Chump is actually a pretty good golfer, but he can't stop himself from cheating. The rules are for everybody else.

[empedocles]

7. Sort of pathetic that this hasn't leaked out sooner. Pathetic suckups.

Never understood why Senators, Generals, celebrities, etc. put up with trump at all.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. It has been mentioned in the past

that Trump cheats at golf. I do recall reading something about his doing so at least a couple of years ago.

Just that no one bothered to write an entire book on the topic.

[Dave Starsky]

20. Alice Cooper said he cheats worse than anyone he'd ever seen.

And Alice Cooper is a Republican.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Interesting.

And thank you for that post.

[Cosmocat]

21. It has

It was well discussed during the campaign.

[Harker]

11. I can't be the only one thinking of "Goldfinger." n/t

[ret5hd]

12. Let's arrange a golf game between tRump and kim!!! Winner takes all!!!

Let's see who the best golfer in the history of the universe truly is!

[Harker]

14. They could both shoot 5 under

on a par 3 hole.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Why does anyone play golf with him?

What possible fun could it be to play with a shameless cheater?

He's disgusting. He has cheated at everything his entire life. The man has no talent, no merits, nothing of substance to offer. His entire life is a lie and a joke. How he can live with himself is a mystery to me.

[Initech]

16. Does he play with Slazenger 7s by any chance?

&t=114s

Slazenger 7: The golf ball of choice for megalomaniacal villains with aspirations of world domination since 1963!

[NastyRiffraff]

17. I love that story

because it will make Cheatin' Don crazy(er). There's a reason he cheats. He always has to be "the best" (and never is).

[left-of-center2012]

18. A Trump golf cheating story

https://sports.yahoo.com/golfers-say-president-trump-cheats-at-the-highest-level-142857151.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews

ESPN announcer Mike Tirico remembers hitting one of the best shots of his life squarely onto the green, but when he walked over, the ball was 50 feet away in a bunker.

“Trump’s caddy came up to me and said,
‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5?’” Tirico says.
“‘It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it in the bunker. I watched him do it.’”

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. He should play Kim Jong-un

The world's best golfer ever.