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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-installed-a-room-sized-golf-simulator-at-white-house/2019/02/13/ed3f6d5c-2e45-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.htmlPresident Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House
President Trump has installed a room-sized golf simulator game at the White House, which allows him to play virtual rounds at courses all over the world by hitting a ball into a large video screen, according to two people told about the system.
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Trumps system cost about $50,000, and was put in during the last few weeks in a room in his personal quarters, a White House official said.
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Trump has played golf the traditional kind, on an outdoor course about 139 times as president, largely at his own golf clubs, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. There is no way to have an exact count because he usually does not acknowledge having played.
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Trump complained to friends during the shutdown that he missed Mar-a-Lago and being at his Florida golf course.
You gotta wonder if he had it installed during the shutdown when he couldn't go to Mar-A-Lago, while 800,000 Federal workers were not getting paid and over 1,000,000 Gov't Contractors will never get paid for times missed? But tRump's gotta have his golf.
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President Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House (Original Post)
Stonepounder
Feb 2019
OP
That greatly reduces the chances of getting struck by lightning or getting hit by
logosoco
Feb 2019
#3
Rorey
(8,445 posts)1. It'll get him off the pot during some of his "executive time", I suppose
Do we know who paid for this? Not that it matters anyway. It's cheaper for him to stay at the WH than it is to pay for him to go on his golf outings.
samplegirl
(11,415 posts)2. I think Obama
should call him out on it as phony
logosoco
(3,208 posts)3. That greatly reduces the chances of getting struck by lightning or getting hit by
an errant golf ball.
Darn it!
canetoad
(17,088 posts)10. Or getting his hair wet
or blown around.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)4. Apparently it was an upgrade of one Obama installed.
per USA today.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/13/white-house-golf-simulator/2859107002/
Presidents seem to love golf.
3catwoman3
(23,813 posts)5. Can he program it to get all...
...holes-in-one so he can boast about his score?
MiniMe
(21,676 posts)6. Much as I don't like the man-baby, that doesn't bother me as much as some other things might
I think it was Nixon who installed the bowling lanes, and somebody, maybe FDR installed a swimming pool. At least it doesn't cost as much as travelling to Mar-a lago.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)9. Yea. $50k buys just enough time to warm up the engines on AF1
So it's a bargain by comparison to his golfing trips.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)7. Every minute he's playing at his personal Dave & Busters
is another minute he's not writing legislation to punish us.
ksoze
(2,068 posts)8. He named it, "Executive Time"