TRUMP PLAYING GOLF AGAIN TODAY!!!

[andreisdaman]

EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND....yet Obama was wrong for playing golf...Trump has played golf approximately 16 times in his three months as president.   

Definitely on his way to setting a record

[Yamcha]

Now he's making excuses at why he's bad at golf! 

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/850785347038576640

[tatoo]

big fuckin deal.... bitch when he plays during a crisis here at home like that pussy Obama did... snowflake.. count how many jobs hes created during that time too...

[Coach is Back!]

EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND....yet Obama was wrong for playing golf...Trump has played golf approximately 16 times in his three months as president.   

Definitely on his way to setting a record

When you actually work you can do that. Obama rarely worked

[MuscleManDrew]

When you actually work you can do that. Obama rarely worked

You know, Coach, sometimes not saying anything is the better option.

[Coach is Back!]

You know, Coach, sometimes not saying anything is the better option.

Perhaps but let's face it. Obama has the work ethic of a sloth on Dramamine. He even admitted to being lazy

[andreisdaman]

Perhaps but let's face it. Obama has the work ethic of a sloth on Dramamine. He even admitted to being lazy

Trump beats everyone in terms of lack of work ethic...he even took weekends of during his campaign..LOL...but again I love how Trump is exposing your hypocrisy....when Obama golfed, he was lazy but when trump out-golfs Obama not a peep outta you...not to mention its costing us a fortune in tax payer money to protect him and fly him every weekend at Mar a Lago

[andreisdaman]

You know, Coach, sometimes not saying anything is the better option.

Agreed...he NEVER learns

[Coach is Back!]

Trump beats everyone in terms of lack of work ethic...he even took weekends of during his campaign..LOL...but again I love how Trump is exposing your hypocrisy....when Obama golfed, he was lazy but when trump out-golfs Obama not a peep outta you...not to mention its costing us a fortune in tax payer money to protect him and fly him every weekend at Mar a Lago

Ahahahaahahahah, I'm seriously dying over here...lmao

[Coach is Back!]

EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND....yet Obama was wrong for playing golf...Trump has played golf approximately 16 times in his three months as president.   

Definitely on his way to setting a record

See, unlike Obama when you actually put in a full week of work (in Trumps case 60+) you can do that.

[HockeyFightFan]

Trump golfs at courses he built and owns.

Obama never planned, built, owned, financed anything or had a real job in his life.

He played monopoly with taxpayer money for 8 years.....doubling our national debt.

No one with 1/10th of a brain would ever believe bathhouse Barry ever outworked trump at anything

[Thin Lizzy]

Better than what Dindus are doing on a daily basis:



America’s Top Cities for Homicides Are on Track for Historic Rates in 2017

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thetrace.org/2017/07/gun-homicide-rates-baltimore-st-lous-detroit/amp/

[Soul Crusher]

EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND....yet Obama was wrong for playing golf...Trump has played golf approximately 16 times in his three months as president.   

Definitely on his way to setting a record

Don't you prefer it that way? 

I mocked O-KENYANFAGGET for his golf addiction, but was happier when he was out of the WH and just smoking crack, banging old white queers in the bath house, and golfing.  Less damage that way

[Thin Lizzy]

Don't you prefer it that way? 

I mocked O-KENYANFAGGET for his golf addiction, but was happier when he was out of the WH and just smoking crack, banging old white queers in the bath house, and golfing.  Less damage that way

Obama ironically was the worst thing that could've happened to blacks. Eight years of hope and change with a black president and a black justice department and things are worse than ever. Now everyone knows they're a lost cause.

[Soul Crusher]

Obama ironically was the worst thing that could've happened to blacks. Eight years of hope and change with a black president and a black justice department and things are worse than ever. Now everyone knows they're a lost cause.

Chicago, St. Louis, south Africa, morroco, the congo, somalia, detroit, etc.  The problem is that the cultural marxism and not promoting good economic policies is a plague.  Instead of actually enforcing discipline and responsibility, its the same in all these places, people screwing like jack rabbits, no one really works a real job, etc.   

[Soul Crusher]

Better than what Dindus are doing on a daily basis:



America’s Top Cities for Homicides Are on Track for Historic Rates in 2017

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thetrace.org/2017/07/gun-homicide-rates-baltimore-st-lous-detroit/amp/

Obama the King of Zamunda was so great for inner cities

[Howard]

Trump golfs at courses he built and owns.

Obama never planned, built, owned, financed anything or had a real job in his life.

He played monopoly with taxpayer money for 8 years.....doubling our national debt.

No one with 1/10th of a brain would ever believe bathhouse Barry ever outworked trump at anything

HFF , question:

Which Monopoly playing pc would Obama be?

[HockeyFightFan]

HFF , question:

Which Monopoly playing pc would Obama be?

Howard's Gay Black Lover?

[Thin Lizzy]

Obama the King of Zamunda was so great for inner cities

Zamunda is much safer than Chicago's "inner-city."


http://abc7chicago.com/410-shot-74-fatally-in-chicago-in-july-2017-police-say/2265874/

[Straw Man]

Howard's Gay Black Lover?

you have a lot of queer thoughts

why is that?

[Soul Crusher]

Zamunda is much safer than Chicago's "inner-city."


http://abc7chicago.com/410-shot-74-fatally-in-chicago-in-july-2017-police-say/2265874/

A disorganized community for sure.   

[Howard]

See, unlike Obama when you actually put in a full week of work (in Trumps case 60+) you can do that.

Must be a reward for all his hard work in getting his new healthcare bill passed 

[Dos Equis]

Trump and Obama are not in the same universe when it comes to work ethic.  Trump is a workaholic.  Obama was lazy. 

[Coach is Back!]

Must be a reward for all his hard work in getting his new healthcare bill passed 

By now you must be the only one in America that thinks this is Trumps fault

[andreisdaman]

http://amp.timeinc.net/golf/tour-news/2017/08/01/president-donald-trump-relationship-golf-more-complicated-now?source=dam
[This article appears in the Aug. 7, 2017, edition of Sports Illustrated.]

Playing golf with the 45th President of the United States offers a revealing character study of him. Donald Trump's private clubs are where he feels most comfortable, and holding court with members and guests and employees is an important part of the ritual—in the pro shop, at the driving range and especially on the 1st tee, where Trump traditionally announces the teams for a friendly wager and will typically take the best player available for his partner. Some earnest person in the group will typically keep score, though the terms of the match are usually unstated and Trump's interest in the ebb and flow of the match is modest at best. Yet he somehow knows when his putt is meaningful, and he attempts those putts with a certain amount of fanfare.

SI spoke with numerous people who have teed it up with Trump over the years and all report that he doesn't play a round of golf so much as narrate it, his commentary peppered with hyperbole. "Is this not the most beautiful asphalt you've ever seen in your life?" he'll say of an ordinary cart path. At the turn he'll ask, "Have you ever had a better burger?" Years ago Trump was mid-round when he took a long call from Mark Burnett, the producer of The Apprentice. He put down his phone just long enough to play his shots, at one point saying, "Wait one second here while I blast this 250-yard 3-wood." Trump also lavishes attention on his playing partners. "We didn't talk any business because there wasn't time," says Ernie Els, who last February played golf alongside Trump and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. "He was more focused on making sure me and the Japanese prime minister had a good time. He kept on the two of us, making sure we had a proper introduction, making conversation, just being a good host."

Trump always takes a cart and a caddie, whom he pays well. He insists on driving. Recent footage that showed him navigating his cart across a green at his club in Bedminster, N.J., generated horror in the golf press, but this is old news at Trump's clubs, where he has been known to drive onto tee boxes too.

As for his game, Trump is surprisingly limber for a portly man of 6' 2", and his good eye-hand coordination shows through in all aspects of his play, but especially in his ability to hole putts, which he does with a wristy, old-fashioned stroke that is nothing like the method preferred by the best players today. On the backswing of his full shots, he takes the club inside and, impressively, gets his left shoulder well behind the ball. He then makes a lunging, down-the-line swing with his feet dancing through the finish. It's not pretty, but it repeats and it's a swing with rhythm and power. "He's a much better golfer than you think he'd be because he hits the ball a long way," says Phil Mickelson. "He has clubhead speed, and there's no substitute for that." Trump favors the latest in TaylorMade equipment, owing to a long-standing friendship with Mark King, the company's former CEO. But when Prime Minister Abe gave Trump a gold-colored Honma Beres S-05 driver, it went straight into the bag. (Retail price of the club: $3,755. The gift was made in November, and as President-elect, Trump was permitted to accept a gift that he would not have been allowed to take after the inauguration; Presidents are forbidden from accepting a present from a foreign government with a value that exceeds $390.)

Trump will sometimes respond to a shot he duffed by simply playing a second ball and carrying on as if the first shot never happened. In the parlance of the game, Trump takes floating mulligans, usually more than one during a round. Because of them it is impossible to say what he has actually shot on any given day, according to 18 people who have teed it up with Trump over the last decade, including SI senior writer Michael Bamberger, who has done so nine times. In 2007, Trump called Bamberger to brag about a 68 he had shot at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles. Trump's handicap index is officially 2.8, but he has posted only three scores since '14. Els, a South Florida resident who has known Trump for many years, estimates he is "an eight or a nine." For Trump to shoot 68 on a tough course like Bel-Air would require him to play nearly perfectly from tee to green while making a number of substantial putts. One of his playing partners that day confirmed that Trump played "good," but that he took all the usual liberties common among everyday golfers: mulligans, gimmes, improved lies, etc. There was no mention of the 68 in a subsequent story, and Bamberger heard about it from Trump.

In a 2013 tweet aimed at entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Trump wrote, "Golf match? I've won 18 Club Championships including this weekend. @mcuban swings like a little girl with no power or talent. Mark's a loser." Trump has never made public a list of his club titles, and fact-checking calls to all of the Trump properties on this subject went universally un-returned. Winged Foot is the one non-Trump club at which the President is a member, and his name does not appear on any of the honor boards in the old clubhouse.
Trump has often said that golf is a small part of his businesses but that it means more to him than any of the others. As he told SI years ago, "A lot of my friends are gardeners. I never understood it. Then I started building golf courses—it's gardening on a big scale." He clearly loves the game, and even at 71 is easily the best golfer who has ever lived in the White House. It is a long-standing trope that golf reveals a lot about a man's character. What, then, does President Trump's life in golf say about him?


Donald Trump has always been attuned to the status markers of the ruling class. Private golf clubs were and remain a particular obsession of his. He could buy the gaudiest house in Palm Beach—and he did, Mar-A-Lago—but he would never be invited to join the nearby Seminole Golf Club, where Ben Hogan wintered every year to prepare for the Masters. (According to club lore, Trump's chances of admission vanished when he dined there with his then wife Marla Maples and she breast-fed their infant daughter, Tiffany, in view of the ladies who were lunching.) Trump may have reshaped skylines up and down the East Coast, but citadels such as Pine Valley and Shinnecock Hills remain beyond his grasp, their memberships prizing discretion and old money. If building skyscrapers is pure id, creating golf courses is a chance to play God by literally reshaping the Earth, and so Trump has created a series of monuments to himself, replete with man-made waterfalls. The perennial outsider now has nine eponymous private enclaves of his own, to go along with seven high-end public properties, on three continents.

But building golf courses was never going to be enough. Trump pined for the validation that would come with important championships being conducted on his courses. These can only be bestowed by the tweedy ruling bodies, and so Trump campaigned for such tournaments with the same intensity he would later bring to chasing electoral votes. To woo the decision-makers, Trump lavished free memberships upon at least three golf officials as well as relentless attention that continues today; since being elected he has played golf with and had multiple phone conversations with Pete Bevacqua, the CEO of the PGA of America. There has been much to discuss: In May, Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., hosted the PGA Senior Championship, and in 2022 the PGA Championship will be played at Trump Bedminister, the so-called Summer White House in a tony hamlet in New Jersey, 45 miles from New York City and six miles from USGA headquarters. (The President is playing the long game with the PGA of America, hoping to land one of the sport's ultimate prizes, the Ryder Cup.) Last month Trump got a national championship when the USGA brought the U.S. Women's Open to Bedminister. Trump spent 2 1/2 days chewing the scenery at the tournament, his obvious good cheer undiminished by a smattering of protesters on nearby roadways and others standing peacefully beneath his aerie looming over the 16th tee. Trump tweeted eight times about the event, more than he has since taking office about opioid addiction, the international refugee crisis and climate change ... combined.

Golf is never far from the President's mind, it seems. In perhaps the most cogent analysis of how he took the electoral college while losing the popular vote, he told The New York Times, "It's like, if you're a golfer, it's like match play versus stroke play." To illustrate his contention of widespread voting fraud, according to a story in the Times, Trump cited to a gathering of lawmakers that two-time Masters champ Bernhard Langer had been unable to vote at a polling place in Florida while several people "who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote" were permitted to cast provisional ballots. One complication with this spurious anecdote: Langer, a German national, is not a U.S. citizen and is not eligible to vote here. In feting Clemson's national football championship, Trump likened the team's iron will to Jack Nicklaus's and Arnold Palmer's. In a meeting with business leaders at the White House, Trump coaxed Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, into telling the story of having witnessed the President make a hole in one years earlier. While TV cameras rolled, Immelt said, "President Trump goes up to a par-3 on his course. He looks at the three of us and says, ‘You realize, of course, I'm the richest golfer in the world.' Then [he] gets a hole in one. So I have to say, I've seen the magic before."

Here Trump interjected, "It's a crazy—no, I actually I said I was the best golfer of all the rich people, to be exact, and then I got a hole in one. So it was sort of cool."

Ascending to the Presidency never seems to diminish any commander in chief's ardor for the game—Ike, Nixon, Clinton etc. On the campaign trail Trump mocked Barack Obama for playing golf too often, but since taking office Trump has spent some part of more than 20% of his days at a golf club. (Exactly how many rounds he's played is subject to conjecture because the White House refuses to confirm when the President tees it up, even on days when he's spotted with clubs in tow.) Trump has theoretically turned over day-to-day operations of his golf business to his son Eric—who was recently in Scotland to open the new King Robert the Bruce course, where he declared, regrettably, "We made Turnberry great again"—but there have been concerns about conflicts of interest. Four days after the election, the President-elect hectored British officials about a long-standing obsession: a wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, that he says spoils the views from Trump International Golf Links. In February, while Trump's so-called Muslim ban was front-page news, Eric and his brother Donald Jr. flew to the United Arab Emirates under Secret Service protection for the gala opening of Trump International Golf Club Dubai, a swank new course at the heart of a vast development where thousands of luxury homes offer the chance for Saudis and Iranians and other wealthy buyers to park their money. Another branded course, Trump World Golf Club Dubai, is being built down the road as part of AKOYA Oxygen, a 55-million-square-foot development; the course has been designed by Tiger Woods, who teed it up with the President-elect a month after the election.

Trump has two large-scale golf projects in development in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world. The Trump Lido course, outside Jakarta, is being designed by Els. Outside of Bali, Mickelson is re-designing a course for what is being billed as a six-star resort. Trump's partner in both developments is Hary Tanoesoedibjo, a billionaire who was a vice presidential candidate in Indonesia on a failed ticket in 2014. Tanoesoedibjo was an invited guest at Trump's inauguration and later said his friend had inspired him to strongly consider running for Indonesia's presidency. An April '17 story by The Intercept detailed Tanoesoedibjo's alleged links to an ISIS-backed militia that is seeking to oust Indonesia's democratically elected president, Joko Widodo. Were Tanoesoedibjo to take the presidency in 2019, it would be un-precedented for a U.S. President to have such deep financial ties to another head of state.

Trump's golf business has also created various complications domestically. Going back to 1998, Trump Organization properties have been involved in at least 98 lawsuits. Trump has sued more than half a dozen municipalities, seeking to have the property taxes on his courses lowered. (One exception is the Bedminster course, at which a small herd of penned goats allows Trump to take a tax credit for "agricultural use.")

See, unlike Obama when you actually put in a full week of work (in Trumps case 60+) you can do that.

Very good article. Interesting...Really ODD that no one calls him out on his constantly being on the golf course