Trump goes golfing
The Golfer-in-Chief (a much more flattering name than his current nickname) has been in Scotland this week, playing one of his signature golf courses. and apparently striking a tariff agreement along the way. Seems like his usual ratio – a day or so work, followed by a few days golfing. This time, though, despite the tariff deal, Mr. Trump is catching some very well-deserved grief. As M said about Auric Goldfinger, or maybe it was Paul Newman about Robert Shaw: “He cheats.” Trump ball
President Donald Trump wrapped up a five-day trip to Scotland on Tuesday, July 29 by attending a ribbon cutting at Trump International Golf Links near Aberdeen. His trip included hosting European leaders at his Turnberry property and Scottish National Party leader John Swinney at the Balmedie course’s grand opening. He plans to arrive back at the White House Tuesday evening, July 29.
President Donald Trump may visit Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster this weekend, Friday, Aug. 1 through Sunday, Aug. 3. A Safety Team Alert posted by the Federal Aviation Administration, which is an early notification that Air Force One will be on the move, shows Trump’s arrival in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Bedminster beginning Aug. 1. USA Today
But to the meat of it: Trump ball
In the video as Trump walks toward the bunker in the rough, his caddie very obviously tosses a ball backwards for Trump to hit and he lines up on it. The video cuts off before he hits it, but no exculpatory evidence has surfaced to indicate that the caddie did nothing less than blatantly bettering Trump’s lie and that Trump went along with it.
Any golfers out there? I’m a bit rusty but I seem to remember that improving your lie illegally should get you a penalty. Two strokes?
It matters not that Trump’s caddie did it – he didn’t question it. Your caddie makes an error or cheats – YOU own it. Major tournaments are lost every year when a leading player self-outs an error and takes a penalty….but that’s golf. You may love the game, you may think like Mr. Clemens that “it is a good walk wasted” – but integrity is supposed to be the cornerstone of the game.
The old phrase is that “integrity is what you do when no one is watching.” In this case, multiple cameras were watching, and Mr. Trump acquired a new nickname, the “Commander in Cheat.”
Continuing on the above theme – take a look at his schedule. 5 days in Scotland (at least three of them golfing) back late the 29th, presumably working the 30th, and then another three days golfing. I make that 1-3 days of work in a 9 day period. At least he has a nice new golf cart to run around in.
This vehicle was made by the Polaris corporation but modified by someone else, a Polaris company spokesperson confirmed to The War Zone.
According to the Government Services Administration (GSA) website, a Chicago company called Scaletta Armoring makes an “add-on armor kit to Polaris XP 1000 Ranger UTV with protection scalable to mission.” The kit has a unit price of nearly $190,000.
The GSA site includes a photo, which you can see below, of a Polaris Ranger X UTV very similar to the one seen in Scotland. We reached out to Scaletta Armoring for more details.The War Zone
Scaletta declined to answer without getting clearance from the Secret Service – gee, ya think they made it?
I read where Trump’s golf cost the US $150,000,000 in his first term, has already cost over $25-40,000,000 this term, and here’s a little $190,000 fillip. Pity he is on the outs with Elon Musk – I’d bet DOGE would love to save the country a coupla hundred mill.
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Donald Trump
At least he didn’t go golfing on the day of the funeral for a Major General who was KIA like B. Hussein 0bama did.
Come bother us when our tax dollars build a new fence around Mara Lago. Trumps done more in the last six months than “sleep on the beach” Joe did in 4 years. Let him play f-ing golf.
He heard Ty Webb shot a 68 and had the ball moved…. 😏
So on any day that he golfs, nothing else ever gets done / negotiated. I was under the impression that quite a few business folks did some deals / arrangements while smacking a little white ball around an expensive lawn.
If he is not in a competition, how is it “cheating”? Is he playing for some legal reason or to relax and have fun? Lastly, who really gives a shit? Besides those smitten with TDS.
Right on! It’s not a competition with millions of dollars to win. DJT is out having some fun and doing some negotiating, making deals. DJT does more work on his day off than any president before him. No one’s talking about how early his days start and how he burns the midnight oil. How he runs the staff down with his normally long workdays. I stand with him 100%.
Totally agree! Golf negotiations are in a friendly, private venue. I’m happy to see he has added appropriate security. “Golf Force One” – love it.
I guess I need to penalize myself about 753,325 strokes.
“they be strokin'”
Put a putt putt course at the White House.
With a remote control windmill hole that can be sped up or
slowed down at will.
Nah, it’ll likely be a bad idea because a president will eventually do this:
The thing about golf, if you are not playing in a tournament or betting with your playing partners, the only person you are cheating is yourself. So he doesn’t feel like taking a bunker shot today. Did anyone see his score card to see if he took the two stroke penalty? Video is all well in great…as long as it is in context!
I do also recall a phrase, that I learned when I competed sailboat racing. “Racing is all about the rules, and understanding when you can ignore them. If you aren’t cheating you aren’t trying, if you get caught you aren’t trying hard enough”
Similar to NASCAR rules. There is no cheating. There is “a liberal interpretation of the rulebook”.
In Navy-speak, “If ya ain’t cheatin’ ya ain’t trying.”
This one time at band camp Trump got a flute in Davis Hogg’s vagina.
That’s “mangina”
I understand Hogg is up to a bassoon now.
Wish I could rent a bassoon for a month or so just to see if I could teach myself to play it. Love that sound.
Speaking of Little David Hogg, I wonder the DNC took his credit card back. He was SPENDING someone else’s money!
Well… he’s a democrat… sooooo…
If I didn’t know better, I’d say that PDJT47 had at one time been in the Army.
(I know he wasn’t, just bear with me)
He definitely follows that axiom, “we do more by 9am than most people do all day”.
So he throws a stroke in golf? Who cares? (besides those with ATDS – Advanced TDS).
As an advanced non-golfer, I don’t care.
I was told I play Army golf. As in “left, right, left, right…”
The few times I’ve tried to play golf, after every swing, my ball would drop and give me 20 ….. centimeters. I was eventually assigned to drive the cart and carry the beer.
“man has to know his limitations”.
Grew up in a town with two golf courses.
Used to hide in the bushes and steal golf balls before the
players could get to their next shot.
Then sell them at the clubhouse.
We did the same thing as kids. But occasionally we would put one of the balls in the cup at this one green. A valley between the hole and tee. So the golfers couldn’t see us for a few minutes. Funny to watch a golfer getting all excited.
I read an article explaining that it was a legal drop because the ball was in an unplayable position. OK, I get that, but I’ve never seen a caddie do the drop while walking.
An unplayable lie is a legit call, just being in a trap isn’t. And just tossing a ball backwards isn’t how it’s done.
Sorry, guys, gotta laugh at the “it isn’t a big match so cheating is OK” – yes, some sports only discourage getting caught. Golf isn’t one of them. Interesting to see the apologists contort themselves trying to rationalize a severe character flaw, though.
Seems like everyone I know has this same exact severe character flaw. It’s an epidemic!
I never cheated at golf. I golf so bad that no amount of cheating would help.
I haven’t been golfing since my battalion commander ordered me too back 2002. We played best ball. Guess whose ball was never, ever the best?
However, everyone I know does cheat at golf in some way or another.
Don’t care either. If Trump were selling his office, snorting coke in the oval office or diddling his daughter that would draw my interest. Cheating at a game that doesn’t matter in the least is so far down the don’t care zone I can’t believe I’m another post to explain that
Same! But 2010!😉
I suck SO bad at golf, cheating won’t even help me. I literally go for the beer!
However ,, I ain’t too bad at Top Golf!
Quick everybody, let’s call a lid for the day and go to the beach before Joe and his beach boys get there and claim the whole beach as theirs. If we hurry, we can best the train.
We can’t take the train, the Key Bridge isn’t fixed yet.
Rusty at golf but is well oiled with the “Trump is bad”. Interesting.
Did I just get censored ? I’m outta here.
Oh, not Jimbo!
What happened?
My message voicing discontent with someone’s TDS. Was not posted…in fact it appeared to disappear after I hit post.
I saw your message.
Correction, TDS was mentioned in OldTanker’s post.
That’s not the message that disappeared.
I have had that happen a time or two. Thought that I was hallucinating. Next day, there it was. Typos and all! Weird!
IMHO, a nothing burger soup sandwich. YMMV
Another attempt at separating Trump from his base.
They were trying really hard with a fake news that Trump was about to pardon that POS Sean Combs Pdiddy.
Since it didn’t get traction, they have to back to attack Trumps character and accuse him of cheating at golf. At golf, of all things. Like anyone cares about how he plays golf.
What’s going on?
Why are my posts waiting approval?
Ok. I see how it is. Censured here in TAH. Unexpected. Sad.
Well, Bye.
Was he playing a game, or was he on a practice round?
As in: “OK, caddie, supposed I hit up short of the bunker, how should I come out of this rough to clear the bunker?”
And the caddie says: “Well, it’s like this …” (walks up, tosses a ball behind him into the rough, looks forward to the green, returns to the ball) “… now you want to use your sand wedge since you’re only 20 yards from the green and you need the ball to pop up, like an underhand toss, and that thick rough is really going to slow your club head speed. So don’t slack off the power.”
In fact, perhaps Mr. Trump took the shot, and the caddie said: “Not bad, but you are still coming out too shallow, hit more behind the ball and come down on it” as the caddie tosses out another ball.
After more practice, they move onto the green to practice putting.
But there is zero context to the short edited version of a single scene.
Those with TDS will supply the fake narrative.
He doesn’t drink, doesn’t spend much time in bed and does not go bed before the early bird special is over with.
He keeps the libs worrying 24/7 actually does work on the days that he is in the office.
None of that changes the fact of cheating at golf but I don’t what he told the other player(s) at that time 🙂
It has to wear him and his staff down with all of the early morning meetings, breakfasts and trying to keep a full schedule operating the way they do.
Maybe the private physician perks him up from time-to-time. The jet lag would keep me out sorts.
Golf related.