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Published 1 min ago on May 25, 2020
By Matthew Chapman
On CNN Monday, former Trump adviser and Republican lobbyist David Urban defended President Donald Trumps decision to take a golf outing as coronavirus deaths approached 100,000.
Every death is horrible, Urban said. However, people die in America every day, and just to expect the president to sit frozen in his office is unrealistic.
Watch below:
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-ally-its-unrealistic-to-say-president-shouldnt-golf-just-because-people-are-dying-of-covid-19/
Well dude, I could go into a rant about your hero, but since your on the same page as him, how much do you get being paid to be his buddy, while 40 million are out of work, and the federal unemployment benefits will run out on July, and the realistic fact that your "guy" has 100,000 + deaths on his Blood on His Hands, and he goes out and plays golf.............and then there is the Arlington debacle...........
jmg257
(11,996 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Perhaps he knows him well?
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)where the suppose leader of a country show some type of concern and empathy for his or her people does not even exist because this person is self absorbs tiny prick, and that is ok say the republican party and their cult.
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,074 posts)Same old song and dance. Can't expect anything better from these assholes.
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)and then the public if they are watching get the same thing over and over............maybe its time some one says that he should say enough he needs to resign........and start saying that over and over again.........instead of letting these assholes get away with this crap...............
spanone
(135,789 posts)SO, FUCK OFF.
phylny
(8,367 posts)a president should never golf while Black.
sop
(10,098 posts)Back in 2016 Trump promised if he became president he wouldnt have time for golf: "I'm going to be working for you in the White House, I'm not going to have time to go play golf."
jls4561
(1,253 posts)and had not wasted so much of the taxpayer money putting dollars in his pockets at his golf own courses, and had he not been distracted in early 2020 (I think he was watching Ivanka getting her toenails painted or something), and had not waited until he and Jared (Ken doll whose head got stuck in the mold) secured their kickbacks from any medical help the American people might have need during a pandemic, and had he not attempted to co-opt the scientists and the actual facts about the pandemic, and had he not outright lied ("Anyone who wants a test can get one" and spewed batshit crazy cures (Clorox? Lysol?), and had he set up a testing and tracing program, and had he helped the states and given them some national guidance instead of just saying "Do what you want. But if I don't like it I will withhold Federal Funding" and had not nearly 100,000 Americans died...
then, yeah, I might have said that even the most useless piece of quivering orange jello might deserve a day off to cheat at golf.
However, since I don't count watching Faux News and eating cheeseburgers and grifting and bloviating and appointing rapists to the Supreme Court actually working, I don't think he deserves 18 holes (of golf).
Midnight Writer
(21,708 posts)louis-t
(23,267 posts)About anyone but himself.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Why do they even bother having these ridiculous Trump apologists on?
keithbvadu2
(36,652 posts)Does Urban support Trump's premise that the Prez should resign for deaths under his watch?
Ebola?
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)It is not some external criterion that we're applying to him capriciously. It's his standard. He declared it. He gave us the metrics on which he wants a President to be judged, and golfing during a public health crisis was explicitly - not implicitly but explicitly - not allowed.
Shaddox
(384 posts)Nobody cares if the President golfs while shit is getting done.