Just another day in Trumpland, right?
We’ve actually known for a while that Donald likes to cheat at golf, because it’s been spoken about openly for decades, but now a new book has really dished the dirt on the extents he will go to.
Yeah, so what, it’s golf you might say, but anybody who has played the game knows that golf cheats are almost always crummy human beings.
Let’s start with the Guardian and a book published yesterday, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, by Rick Reilly. He’s an award-winning former Sports Illustrated columnist who has played golf with Trump, and spoke with many others who have, too:
Trump has been accused of cheating before, notably by Suzann Pettersen, a multiple winner on the LPGA tour. In January 2018, she told a Norwegian newspaper the president “cheats like hell”…
The PGA Tour pro Brad Faxon described some dubious drops.
The actor Samuel L Jackson was quoted as saying he “clearly saw [Trump] hook a ball into a lake at Trump National” in Bedminster, New Jersey, “and his caddy told him he found it!”
The boxer Oscar de la Hoya and musician Alice Cooper were also cited as celebrity witnesses to presidential fairway chicanery.
Trump’s alleged lack of clubhouse etiquette and previously reported penchant for driving golf carts on greens were also mentioned.
People have been talking about his cheating habits for decades, and all of those incidents above are frowned upon, but one new story really puts things into perspective:
…the most startling story concerned a round with the sportscaster Mike Tirico before Trump was elected.
Tirico, the Post wrote, “hit the shot of his life, a 230-yard three-wood towards an elevated green he couldn’t see. But he knew it was close. When he got to the putting green, however, Tirico’s ball was nowhere to be seen. Instead, it was 50ft left of the hole in a bunker. It made no sense – until Trump’s caddy caught up with him after the round.”
Tirico was quoted as saying: “Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par five? It was about 10ft from the hole. Trump threw it in the bunker. I watched him do it.’”
That speaks volumes. It really does.
There’s also the fact that one of his courses bears a plaque commemorating a civil war battle that never happened, and another featured a TIME Magazine framed with Trump on the cover, even though it’s fake.
He could always replace it with the latest TIME cover, though.
Let’s move on to Donald struggling with the words ‘oranges’ and ‘origins’. Given his skin hue, the word ‘orange’ must come naturally, but this video, from an Oval Office meeting with the NATO secretary general, actually points to someone with a declining mental capacity:
This is not normal pic.twitter.com/aPkNqn5z1I
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2019
Wow – he knows the best words, but he can’t actually say them.
We know Donald likes to play fast and loose with the truth (I think he’s allergic to it), but he also dished up a whopper about his father, Fred.
Why?
Trump just said “my father is German, was German. Born in a very wonderful place in Germany.” Fred Trump was born in New York. pic.twitter.com/U6eWYPzjrJ
— Tommy MMXIXtopher (@tommyxtopher) April 2, 2019
Right up there with Tim Apple.
Don’s father, Frederick Christ Trump, was born in the Bronx in 1905. The president’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, was born in the German town of Kallstadt.
Just another example of those diminishing mental faculties.
[source:guardian]
