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struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:00 PM Sep 2018

Arrives at golf course as funeral underway

... The president's motorcade arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Loudoun County, Virginia around 11:16am (1516 GMT) while eulogies to McCain were being delivered at his funeral at Washington's National Cathedral.

Earlier, McCain's daughter Meghan had delivered a tearful address which pointedly took aim at the president's campaign slogan.

"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great," she said to applause from an audience that included Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president's daughter and son-in-law.

Trump meanwhile was seen wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap on Saturda morning ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6121903/Trump-arrives-golf-course-McCain-funeral-underway.html

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Arrives at golf course as funeral underway (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2018 OP
What a rebuke cilla4progress Sep 2018 #1
What happened today won't change anything with that monster. Blue_true Sep 2018 #7
Spot on. appleannie1943 Sep 2018 #11
Charlotte Observer Fact-Checks Trump's Boast His Golf Course is on 'World's Largest' Manmade Lake struggle4progress Sep 2018 #2
Perhaps he could fact-check the golf course he's at today Brother Buzz Sep 2018 #9
Why does he have to lie about everything? smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #12
Spurned, he swings a stick at a small ball on a lawn. MineralMan Sep 2018 #3
He's* squandering another $3 million of our hard-earned tax dollars Achilleaze Sep 2018 #4
What Would Evade $250 Billion In Trump China Tariffs? Golf Clubs struggle4progress Sep 2018 #5
Tour pros sound off: GOLF's anonymous pro survey struggle4progress Sep 2018 #6
150 days (25%) of his presidency at his own golf clubs struggle4progress Sep 2018 #8
COWARD. Chasing his last ball around a golf course, alone. nolabear Sep 2018 #10
Didn't he say he was...... 3catwoman3 Sep 2018 #13
Not all weekend! Certainly not! struggle4progress Sep 2018 #17
How many TV's in the Golf Course lounge had their channels changed at the last minute? brooklynite Sep 2018 #14
"I'll be so busy working that I won't have time for golf!" Initech Sep 2018 #15
"The fake media obviously scrambled the quote a bit!" struggle4progress Sep 2018 #16
He cannot help himself .. really. DemoTex Sep 2018 #18
He has to go there so he can feel oved by the people he PAYS to make himself feel special. Volaris Sep 2018 #19
He's a pig. mountain grammy Sep 2018 #20
From my twitter feed Gothmog Sep 2018 #21
Some 10 or 12 protestors are on the side of the road. They are flying yellow baby Trump balloons Gothmog Sep 2018 #22
And how much did this week's trip cost the American taxpayers?? Rhiannon12866 Sep 2018 #23
Here is a picture of the protesters Gothmog Sep 2018 #24

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. What happened today won't change anything with that monster.
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:10 PM
Sep 2018

Taking power away from him and his asskissers is what causes change to happen. We need to start that process on November 6 and not wait for Mueller to save us. We need to vote with a unified purpose and ignore Greens that are trying to blow up the democrat.

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
2. Charlotte Observer Fact-Checks Trump's Boast His Golf Course is on 'World's Largest' Manmade Lake
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:05 PM
Sep 2018

by Tamar Auber | Aug 31st, 2018, 9:51 pm

... “I actually have investments in Charlotte,” Trump told those gathered at Central Piedmont Community College’s Harris Conference Center, before going on about how the “fake news” would call this a “conflict of interest.”

“You know where my club is, right?” he continued on. “Trump National. It’s a very big success on Lake Norman. Beautiful. Largest man-made lake in the world by far, right?”

However, Lake Norman apparently is not the largest man-made lake in the world ...


https://www.mediaite.com/trump/charlotte-observer-fact-checks-trumps-boast-his-golf-course-is-on-worlds-largest-manmade-lake/


.. Lake Norman doesn’t even crack the list of the 10 largest U.S. reservoirs, says Tata & Howard, a Massachusetts-based engineering firm that designs dams. Nevada’s Lake Mead, the largest on that list, holds 25 times more water than Lake Norman.

Globally, Lake Kariba along the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe is the world’s biggest based on water storage capacity, Water-Technology.net and WorldAtlas.com report. NASA’s Earth Observatory, however, calls Kariba only one of the largest artificial reservoirs ...


https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article217663050.html#storylink=cpy

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
9. Perhaps he could fact-check the golf course he's at today
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:11 PM
Sep 2018

A historically inaccurate plaque on a Trump-owned golf course commemorates a Civil War battle along the banks of the Potomac that never took place.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-civil-war-monument/

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Why does he have to lie about everything?
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:43 PM
Sep 2018

Everything that comes out of his mouth is an outright lie? It's pathological.

MineralMan

(146,189 posts)
3. Spurned, he swings a stick at a small ball on a lawn.
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:07 PM
Sep 2018

So goes the day of the current occupant of the White House. Sad.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. He's* squandering another $3 million of our hard-earned tax dollars
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:07 PM
Sep 2018

to pamper himself with another luxury, golden, gourmet, special, glorious golf goof-off for himself.

* alleged republican billionaire, confirmed republican draft dodger.

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
5. What Would Evade $250 Billion In Trump China Tariffs? Golf Clubs
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:07 PM
Sep 2018

If you're a golfer and the clubs you are eyeing are stamped "Made In China" -- and most are -- it appears you are safe.

The Trump Administration ended six days of hearings this week from constituencies with opinions on his threats to add $200 billion in Chinese imports to the current list of $50 billion already subject to tariffs. The tariff fight, involving the world's two largest economies, is the most significant such fight since the 1930s ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2018/08/30/what-would-evade-250-billion-in-trump-china-tariffs-golf-clubs-plastic-napkins-cell-phones-more/#260e24107bfd

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
6. Tour pros sound off: GOLF's anonymous pro survey
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:09 PM
Sep 2018

... In the 2018 edition of GOLF magazine’s anonymous player poll — the poll is in the October issue, which hits newsstands next week — 59 Tour pros were asked to weigh in on the lightning-rod president. Fifty-six percent of them said that they voted for Trump in 2016 — but just 42 percent say they would vote for him in 2020. Players’ comments about Trump ranged from the enthusiastic (“F— yeah, I’m voting for Trump”) to unimpressed (“I’m not a citizen but if I could, I wouldn’t vote for Trump”). Not surprisingly, at least one player appears to be mainly motivated by Trump’s tax policies: “He’s made me some money. That’s all I care about” ...

https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/2018/08/29/tour-pros-sound-off-on-donald-trump-in-golfs-anonymous-pro-survey/

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
8. 150 days (25%) of his presidency at his own golf clubs
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:11 PM
Sep 2018

Donald Trump’s arrival at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, Saturday morning marked 150 days of his 582 days in office that he’s spent at a golf club bearing his own name. That is a quarter of his time in office.

The visit also marked his 193rd day at a Trump property. Or a third of his time in office ...

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-150-days-presidency-trump-golf-club-1090729

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
10. COWARD. Chasing his last ball around a golf course, alone.
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 01:14 PM
Sep 2018

Pathetic.

He needs to be shunned, along with everything he stands for.

DemoTex

(25,370 posts)
18. He cannot help himself .. really.
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 02:16 PM
Sep 2018

He is a congenital asshole. Or, as my late dad would say about loathsome characters, in rare outbursts of profanity: "He's a shit-ass."

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
19. He has to go there so he can feel oved by the people he PAYS to make himself feel special.
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 02:27 PM
Sep 2018

Daddy didn't love him enough, and he never got over it. His access to money made that possible, and insulated him his whole life from having to deal with that kinda stuff the way all the rest of us do.

He's a 70 year old, 12 year old.

With nuclear codes.

So thanks for that, Deplorables...The rest of us REALLY appreciate what you did there.

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