Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing

[highplainsdem]

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]

1. Donald, it's perfectly OK if you don't want to be President

JUST RESIGN!!!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. The usual IOKIYAR.

[unblock]

3. i'm fine with him playing golf.

the more he's doing something other than destroying the country, the better.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. The Minority President used his little hands to grab the clubs two days in a row last weekend. . .nt

[Thor_MN]

5. Do you suppose that he has to special order undersize grips or do manufacturers keep them in stock?

[jmowreader]

7. There are five standard grip sizes

"Junior" and "Undersize" grips would be fine for him.

[Tanuki]

12. I was searching for a picture of miniature golf clubs,

and by coincidence I think I've found a something that might stop his ridiculous tweeting habit:

?sw=500

[Kennah]

15. Does this mean a new Executive Order will be forthcoming? (n/t)

[keithbvadu2]

6. Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'

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 there’s 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 it’s the appropriate thing to do,” he says.
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http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d417153ef01b8d2386c8b970c-800wi

[bullwinkle428]

8. Awesome! So Rory was the "whistleblower"? I'm guessing Agent Orange is all,

"I'M GONNA WATERBOARD THAT FUCKING LITTLE LEPRECHAUN!!"

[dchill]

9. Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US...

President Trump spent the day playing golf?

Worse than Obama.

[Kimchijeon]

10. Y'know if ya resign you can play golf alllll you want

Just sayin'

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Right, And They Don't Want To Admit Nixon Was A RepubliCON

DickDon 2020

[truthisfreedom]

13. I just realized what his little hands are so useful for!

[Kennah]

14. Shouldn't be able to cause as much damage (n/t)

[olddad56]

16. Eisenhower played over 800 rounds of golf during his presidency

we could be so lucky as to have this guy spend that much time playing golf.

[irisblue]

18. Eisenhower had already done useful things before he was President

And did useful things while President. trump has done neither.

[riversedge]

17. White House forced to reverse course on Trumps golfing

White House forced to reverse course on Trump’s 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 wouldn’t 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 Obama’s golfing, the Republican’s aides are a little touchy about the subject, to the point that they’ve 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, it’s 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 president’s 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 president’s diligence and productivity............................

[Achilleaze]

19. republican lies & obfuscation are LEGION

How freaking un-American and SINFUL

[Bayard]

20. For all the golfing Rump does

It hasn't helped his figure much.

[lark]

21. Worst in history

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]

22. wonder if his scores are yudge the biggest ever

sometimes he needs an extra card to count em all