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Lord help the soul who decides to call Donald Trump out on his compulsive golf habit, particularly if the soul happens to be a foreign critic of the president pointing out that Trump was golfing while supposedly monitoring a then Category 4 hurricane. The incompetent Mayor of London, Sadique Kahn, was bothered that I played a very fast round of golf yesterday, the president fumed on Twitter Tuesday morning, misspelling virtually every component of Sadiq Khans name before deleting it, correcting the error, and reposting. But that was hardly the point for Trump. Many Pols exercise for hours, or travel for weeks. Me, I run through one of my courses (very inexpensive), he insisted. President Obama would fly to Hawaii, he added, before suggesting that Khan focus on Londons knife crime epidemic.
Irony, as always, eluded Trump, considering how little attention he paid to another mass shooting in Texas over the weekend that left seven people dead. (Roughly 260 people have died in mass shootings since Trump became president.) Equally lacking in self-awareness was his comment about Barack Obamas own golf habit, which constituted part of Trumps early criticism of his predecessor. According to Forbes, Trump has spent over $100 million in taxpayer money on his hundreds of days at his own golf resortsputting him on track to spend more than $340 million if he is elected to a second term.
The most recent golf trip in questiona somewhat unnecessary Saturday jaunt to his Virginia resort from Camp David via helicoptertook place after Trump canceled an overseas trip to Poland for a ceremony commemorating the start of World War II, ostensibly to monitor the landfall of Hurricane Dorian. Khan, who has been feuding with Trump since the beginning of the administration, couldnt pass up the opportunity. Hes clearly busy dealing with a hurricane out on the golf course, he told Politicos London Playbook, before going on to blast Trump for emboldening fringe nationalists. [Trump] is a guy who amplifies racist tweets; amplifies the tweets of fascists; says things that are deeply objectionable. If I dont stand up and call that out, I think Im doing a disservice to Londoners who chose me as their mayor. Trump didnt respond to that part of Khans criticism.
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Champp
(2,114 posts)I want my tax money to go to helping out the folks slammed by the hurricane, not to luxurious screwoff golf by the Republican BILLIONAIRE and his fatcat Republican buddies.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)the scene. Big big big coward. And he says he's American. Right. Despicable.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)if we could only stop giving SNAP to people who refuse to get more than three jobs to eat and feed their children. And what about those lazy little kids? Half of the SNAP budget is going to keep their worthless little bellies full.
And those seniors, sheesh. Isn't Social Security enough? What, they want MORE?