This analysis by The Washington Post’s Philip Bump points out that Donald Trump has dedicated nearly 1 out of every 3 days of his presidency to golf and visiting his Trump properties.
Taxpayers’ will be on the hook for Trump’s golf game and all the time he spends promoting his opulent properties. The Emoluments Clause be damned, because Republicans will continue defending Trump over the US Constitution.
I'm old enough to remember when Trump went apoplectic whenever Obama golfed. We now have a President who’s 36% approval is much lower than his golf scores and who spends much more time on the links than Obama.
Trump was fighting to strip healthcare from 24 million Americans and then teed it up on the weekend. America First, my arse.
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For the eighth weekend in a row, President Trump has visited a property that bears his name. He has done so on 21 of the 66 days he has been in office, meaning that for the equivalent of three full weeks of his just-over-nine weeks as commander in chief
despite his insistence on the campaign trail that he would avoid the links — “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” he said in August — he has made 14 visits to his own golf courses since becoming president, likely playing golf on at least 12 of those occasions.
And Press Secretary Sean Spicer is always at the ready to lie and cover-up for Trump playing golf and abusing taxpayer dollars. It’s so obvious.
Trump is always exposed as being on the golf course.
“Just because you go somewhere doesn’t necessarily mean you did it,” Spicer told reporters.
Trump watching the Golf Channel and some golf on TV, while not attending meetings he was supposedly having.
On every occasion, save the visit Sunday, Trump has spent multiple hours at the club, usually out of view of the media. On some occasions, such as Saturday, social media posts emerge showing him on the course.
As of writing, it’s not clear who was included in Trump’s three meetings at Trump National. A post on Instagram tagged at the club on Sunday appears to show Trump and two other people watching television in the course’s clubhouse.
Evan McMullin made a great point on Twitter, pointing out this WAPO article.
Remember Donald’s obsession when President Obama golfed?
Trump as President, it’s a whole different story.
Bump ends his analysis with this question.
If Trump traveled to Trump National for meetings, it raises another question: Couldn’t those meetings have been held at the White House?
Americans would really like to know the answer to this question.
Something tells me it will have something to do with golf and his businesses.