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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 03:06 PM Feb 2019

President 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.html


President 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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Trump’s 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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Rorey

(8,445 posts)
1. It'll get him off the pot during some of his "executive time", I suppose
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 03:10 PM
Feb 2019

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.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
3. That greatly reduces the chances of getting struck by lightning or getting hit by
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 03:32 PM
Feb 2019

an errant golf ball.

Darn it!

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
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 06:23 PM
Feb 2019

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
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 06:28 PM
Feb 2019

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
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 06:25 PM
Feb 2019

is another minute he's not writing legislation to punish us.

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