Golfing as US mourns 100,000

[struggle4progress]

May 23, 2020,10:18pm EDT
Seth Cohen

... On .. Saturday ..Trump took the short trip .. to a secure location ... Trump National Golf Club .. Trump’s 265th visit to one of his golf properties since he was elected ...

...Trump’s round of golf .. came .. when ... the number of Americans who have died from the virus outbreak neared 100,000 ... This past week the number of Americans filing for unemployment rose another 4 million, bringing the pandemic total to over 40 million unemployed. Other numbers also tell the tale of a country in crisis, with over $1.3 trillion .. wiped away .. and the number of businesses going bankrupt continuing to rise ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/05/23/trump-golfs-as-us-mourns-100000-dead--the-presidents-ugly-memorial-day-message/#559551b87062

[struggle4progress]

1. Ready to get back to golf

Philip Bump
May 23, 2020 at 2:17 p.m. EDT

... Trump was critical of his predecessor for playing golf in moments of crisis. (Trump’s played 218 times as president by our count; it took Barack Obama until the third year of his second term to hit that number.) At one point, he criticized Obama for playing in the middle of “the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak” — an outbreak that consisted of one person. At another point, he criticized Obama for playing golf despite “all of the problems and difficulties” the country faced ...

The “sparse traffic” Trump’s motorcade encountered on his way to the club is probably a function of the stay-at-home order that is still in effect in Northern Virginia — and in Loudon County, where the Trump golf course is located, in particular. Sterling lies in the easternmost part of the county and is in the region where the most confirmed cases of coronavirus have been identified, according to the county’s data dashboard. The county has yet to meet the benchmarks for reopening including a continued drop in new positive cases and hospitalizations — benchmarks set by the White House coronavirus task force and Birx ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/23/america-president-trump-is-ready-get-back-normal-playing-golf/

[Harker]

2. "Let them eat shit." n/t

[struggle4progress]

3. Creep tees up as death toll creeps up

I fixed their headline for them

By DAVE GOLDINER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAY 23, 2020 | 2:12 PM

... Republicans regularly clubbed former president Barack Obama for golfing on Memorial Day weekend.
And Trump himself told supporters at a campaign event in 2016: “Because I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go golfing, believe me. Believe me. Believe me, folks” ...

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-trump-golf-20200523-6amczlh6unbzzfw3vwivqur5du-story.html

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. "Believe me" -- the blaring klaxon of a pathological liar

[maddiemom]

11. "And that I can tell you."

[struggle4progress]

4. Trump golf resort cuts jobs

May 21, 2020, 1:40 PM

President Donald Trump’s Miami-area golf resort is permanently cutting about 250 workers who had previously been furloughed, citing the “unforeseen” severity of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-golf-resort-cuts-jobs-on-unexpected-duration-of-shutdown

It's not a problem for me: I'll just cash-in by bringing the Secret Service along on my trips!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. That's par for the course for Fat Donnie.

He and his family are tone deaf. I remember Melania's tweeting about the new WH tennis pavilion at the beginning of the pandemic, when only a couple of hundred of people had died.

[augyboston]

7. That's what he was doing instead of his job...

We've come full circle because that's what Don the Con was doing earlier this year when he could have been taking action to mitigate this outbreak - he was playing golf!

Now, we are blazing towards over a hundred thousand dead and two million infected while Nero plays golf!

[duforsure]

8. Expect a trump response

Claiming Biden was corrupt to start up again very soon, and again like he's done before, all lies. Look for trump to claim Biden is weak on China, while he continues to do things helping putin, and russia , and this will be to try to hurt Biden , which it won't . People have caught on to his tactics and all his lying , and won't buy into his claims like he's made against Obama and Hillary in the past that were all lies. trump will be tied to putin , and corrupt russians , and numerous crimes.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

9. "People have caught on to his tactics and all his lying , and won't buy into his claims.."

GOD - I wish that was true!

Why are we still worried about the next election - because many people still have not "caught on"

[oldsoftie]

14. Here's the upshot on that; most HAVE caught on. But will never vote for a Democrat.

Its just who they are. They have their beliefs about what the Dems support & they dont, so they'll vote for fat donnie again. There is already talk of him running AGAIN in 24 if he loses in November! Yes, i've heard it. "Well, he'd be the same age then as Bernie is now, so......"

[Scarsdale]

10. So? He already

made it very clear that he takes no responsibility. For ONCE he spoke the truth. Poor president Baggy Pants. He LOVES to be photographed, even when he does something outrageous, then everyone jumps on him. He is a total failure as president, and even as a decent human being.

[gademocrat7]

12. The evil, incompetent IMPOTUS

Has no moral compass.

[mwb970]

13. "Now watch this drive."

[Submariner]

15. If President Obama was a classless a**hole like trump

this would be a perfect time to throw all those old anti-Obama golfing tweets beck in Donny's spray tanned face.