Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing
Source: CNN
President Donald Trump has made visiting his Florida golf courses a near every-weekend habit in the first month of his administration, and his aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits.
One possible reason: Trump was a frequent and vocal critic of President Barack Obama's golf habit, regularly slamming the former president for playing golf with many pressing issues before the country. Trump even suggested during a 2016 event in Virginia, in a knock on Obama, that if elected he was "not going to have time to go play golf."
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Confronted by McIlroy's comments about playing 18 holes with the President, Sanders said the President "intended to play a few holes and decided to play longer."
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"Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, President Obama spent the day playing golf," Trump tweeted in October 2014. "Worse than Carter."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/
fountainofyouth
(409 posts)JUST RESIGN!!!!!
BumRushDaShow
(128,927 posts)unblock
(52,209 posts)the more he's doing something other than destroying the country, the better.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)"Junior" and "Undersize" grips would be fine for him.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)and by coincidence I think I've found a something that might stop his ridiculous tweeting habit:
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Kennah
(14,261 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,793 posts)Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/245884-trump-i-would-rarely-leave-the-white-house
I would rarely leave the White House because theres so much work to be done, Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.
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Yes, I would live in the White House because its the appropriate thing to do, he says.
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http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d417153ef01b8d2386c8b970c-800wi
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)"I'M GONNA WATERBOARD THAT FUCKING LITTLE LEPRECHAUN!!"
dchill
(38,485 posts)President Trump spent the day playing golf?
Worse than Obama.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Just sayin'
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)DickDon 2020
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Kennah
(14,261 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)we could be so lucky as to have this guy spend that much time playing golf.
irisblue
(32,973 posts)And did useful things while President. trump has done neither.
riversedge
(70,205 posts)White House forced to reverse course on Trumps golfing
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-house-forced-reverse-course-trumps-golfing
02/20/17 04:43 PM
By Steve Benen
For the third consecutive weekend, Donald Trump has headed south, spending time at his private club in South Florida, where the president appears to enjoy golfing. And while that ordinarily wouldnt be especially notable just about every modern president has enjoyed hitting the links with Trump, nothing is ever easy.
Because Trump complained bitterly for years about President Obamas golfing, the Republicans aides are a little touchy about the subject, to the point that theyve begun shading the truth a bit. Politico reported this afternoon:
After initially saying Trump had only played a few holes, the White House reversed itself Monday after professional golfer Rory McIlroy posted on his website that he had played 18 holes with the president.
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But even with those caveats in mind, its an odd thing to lie about. Have we really reached the point at which Trump World is so accustomed to pushing bogus and misleading information that even the presidents golfing is fair game?
...................Even today, the White House only conceded its original statement was wrong after the facts emerged from those Trump played with.
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That said, Trump spent years arguing the exact opposite: he was convinced presidential golfing was a very big deal, it was worthy of incessant and whiny complaints; and it was a credible metric for evaluating a presidents diligence and productivity............................
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)How freaking un-American and SINFUL
Bayard
(22,063 posts)It hasn't helped his figure much.
lark
(23,099 posts)is what any truthful person would say of his presidency, and it's barely over a month old. Think of the horrors to come!
dembotoz
(16,802 posts)sometimes he needs an extra card to count em all