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orangecrush

(19,617 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 06:12 PM Feb 2017

CNN - "Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing"

(CNN) President Donald Trump has made visiting his Florida golf courses a near every-weekend habit in the first month of his administration, and his aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits.

One possible reason: Trump was a frequent and vocal critic of President Barack Obama's golf habit, regularly slamming the former president for playing golf with many pressing issues before the country. Trump even suggested during a 2016 event in Virginia, in a knock on Obama, that if elected he was "not going to have time to go play golf."

"I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said at the time....

The level of secrecy around golf is new for the presidency, too. While the Obama administration was hesitant to allow cameras to regularly get shots of the President hitting the links, they would tell reporters who joined the President for each round. Trump's nascent administration has not done that.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/index.html?client=ms-android-boost-us

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CNN - "Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing" (Original Post) orangecrush Feb 2017 OP
Why hide it? izzybella Feb 2017 #1
... orangecrush Feb 2017 #2
I don't know why... yallerdawg Feb 2017 #3
My pleasure orangecrush Feb 2017 #4
wish someone would compile a video of the liar in chief saying he wouldn't have KewlKat Feb 2017 #5
Great idea orangecrush Feb 2017 #6
That'd be great! Cha Feb 2017 #8
Related Colbert vid Ezior Feb 2017 #9
Genius idea! fun n serious Feb 2017 #12
'cause he whined so much when President Obama golfed. Oh, and there are Cha Feb 2017 #7
Pic of the evil would-be president with his equally evil manservant lpbk2713 Feb 2017 #10
Repube's lying again Achilleaze Feb 2017 #11
Trump cheats at golf left-of-center2012 Feb 2017 #13
His excuse will be "presidentin is so easy that I have lots louis-t Feb 2017 #14
It's weird how much he looks like Goldfinger. I bet he plays golf N77VG Feb 2017 #15

izzybella

(236 posts)
1. Why hide it?
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 06:13 PM
Feb 2017

His supporters don't care.

Unless he golfed with Obama and Clinton sent an email about it. Then they would be screaming that someone needs to go to prison.

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
5. wish someone would compile a video of the liar in chief saying he wouldn't have
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 06:23 PM
Feb 2017

time for golf and then a clip of each time, WITH THE DATE, that he has played since becoming the embarrassment of the nation.

Ezior

(505 posts)
9. Related Colbert vid
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 07:33 PM
Feb 2017

It's not quite what you suggested, but it's related and has a few seconds of golf in it.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
11. Repube's lying again
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 07:37 PM
Feb 2017

They are constantly pissing on the truth and on Americans.

Shameful lack of honor among repubes

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
13. Trump cheats at golf
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 12:55 PM
Feb 2017

I've read in the past that he regularly cheats at golf.
One example given was when he hit a ball into a water hazard, his caddy 'found' the ball on the green.

 

N77VG

(65 posts)
15. It's weird how much he looks like Goldfinger. I bet he plays golf
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 07:48 PM
Feb 2017

the same way.

Bannon as Oddjob? Sounds about right...

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