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... 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
cilla4progress
(24,585 posts)of a sitting President. He is reviled. Unprecedented.
I hope it changes something.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)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.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)by Tamar Auber | Aug 31st, 2018, 9:51 pm
... I actually have investments in Charlotte, Trump told those gathered at Central Piedmont Community Colleges 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. Its 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 doesnt even crack the list of the 10 largest U.S. reservoirs, says Tata & Howard, a Massachusetts-based engineering firm that designs dams. Nevadas 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 worlds biggest based on water storage capacity, Water-Technology.net and WorldAtlas.com report. NASAs 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)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)Everything that comes out of his mouth is an outright lie? It's pathological.
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)So goes the day of the current occupant of the White House. Sad.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)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)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)... In the 2018 edition of GOLF magazines 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, Im voting for Trump) to unimpressed (Im not a citizen but if I could, I wouldnt vote for Trump). Not surprisingly, at least one player appears to be mainly motivated by Trumps tax policies: Hes made me some money. Thats 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)Donald Trumps arrival at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, Saturday morning marked 150 days of his 582 days in office that hes 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)Pathetic.
He needs to be shunned, along with everything he stands for.
3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...going to be studying all weekend?
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)brooklynite
(93,834 posts)Initech
(99,909 posts)Remember when he said that?
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)DemoTex
(25,370 posts)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)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.