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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMan, trump has gone downhill fast or he did a better job of hiding it than we thought:
Link to tweet
Blue Owl
(50,338 posts)bullimiami
(13,083 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Also I bet someone who's never golfed a day in their life could manage a better swing than this asshat.
PJMcK
(22,025 posts)It's from Golf Digest and it's ridiculously hagiographic. Still, Martin Hall is a pretty respectable golf swing analyst.
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/analyzing-trumps-golf-swing
Sorry if it makes you barf but it's an interesting article if you have any interest in golf. The most telling comment to me is where Hall says that Trump's swing appears to be untrained even though he hits a pretty good drive. That would fit with his personality because he always knows more than everyone else. Why would he, a 2.9 handicapper, need a teaching pro?!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,569 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,401 posts)Keerist, given the number of times he played golf over 4 years on the taxpayer's dime, he ought to have become a Senior Pro.
PJMcK
(22,025 posts)In Rick Reilly's book, "Commander-In-Cheat," he describes Trump as taking gimmes from as far away from the hole as 8'-10'!
He also kicks his playing partners' balls off the greens. That's in the same book.
Damn, I'm glad he's gone.
ProfessorGAC
(64,977 posts)...if the putt was already for bogey, he'd pick up from anywhere on the green.
Picking up a 30 footer is saving at least one stroke, probably 2 an eighth of the time.
Stroke shaving is the worst kind of cheating and the fool is notorious for. 12-16 strokes a round. Sometimes more.
PJMcK
(22,025 posts)Pathetic.
ProfessorGAC
(64,977 posts)I'm a 4.2. I'd beat him by 7 or more per 9.
A cheater & a liar.
Vinca
(50,255 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Vinca
(50,255 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)He wore shoulder pads while he was in office.
Mr.Bill
(24,264 posts)He almost fell over backwards when he hit that ball near the end of the video, he looks like he can't bend over very far.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,022 posts)He is golfing.
Looks as fat and stiff as ever.
Being away from the White House will hurt his health, he's got terrible eating habits and I think the WH staff were able to make him eat healthier. Back home he's probably eating greasy food more.
PJMcK
(22,025 posts)An elderly obese man playing golf.
He's not wearing a red MAGA hat but a white one with maybe the Presidential Seal on it?
The elderly man is a cheater because he didn't putt out, instead giving himself a gimme.
What am I missing?
OAITW r.2.0
(24,401 posts)Like 10.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)He is driving the same and everything.
Siwsan
(26,257 posts)Well, that and it appears his diet hasn't improved.
George II
(67,782 posts)It's only been a month, unless he was hiding that weight very well.
Siwsan
(26,257 posts)I'm glad I'm 'stress starver'. I've actually lost weight in self-isolation.
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,921 posts)DoBotherMe
(2,339 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,327 posts)mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)And no class
Ohiogal
(31,956 posts)any longer than two seconds....
AirmensMom
(14,642 posts)than I can do.
yonder
(9,663 posts)Slugger that he isn't.
Kingofalldems
(38,444 posts)Plus his swing is awful with poor balance.
monmouth4
(9,693 posts)player, no discipline.
Kingofalldems
(38,444 posts)And have playing partners who allow you to cheat.
monmouth4
(9,693 posts)hlthe2b
(102,197 posts)Seems more portly (if possible), so maybe his return to tv will be as Pillsbury Doughboy?
ProfessorGAC
(64,977 posts)Even minor flaws in timing can cause balance issues especially if swinging harder than one should.
I have a pretty balanced swing, and I will fall off the follow through now & then.
And, I'm way better than that cheater.
Not sure that the balance loss in the swing is anything other than a flawed swing.
obamanut2012
(26,064 posts)It REALLY threw me off with my tee and long fairway shots. I've shaved half of it off, and my balance/biomechanics are already way better.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,039 posts)Never have hips been used less than in his abortion called a golf swing. He's a shitty dancer too.
arlyellowdog
(866 posts)Im a 70 year old woman on post cancer drugs that make me gain weight and I struggle everyday. I have sympathy for everyone in my situation. Sympathy for almost everyone who struggles with weight. No sympathy for Trump. He thinks hes immune. Im sure hes still eating fast food.
tblue37
(65,273 posts)FakeNoose
(32,617 posts)He thinks that makes him look thinner when he wears it. But of course he looks fat even with the tie on. He's got a terrible, awful golf swing and he almost lost his balance on the follow through.
He never putts his final putt, he just takes a freebie according to the book "Commander In Cheat."
I'm sure these guys Chump's playing with all know how he cheats his ass off.
dhol82
(9,352 posts)He could use some lessons.
LazySusanNot
(192 posts)Last edited Mon Feb 15, 2021, 10:54 PM - Edit history (1)
(1) hiding the fact that he still cheats at golf? Which should be a Federal Crime in my book.
(2) hiding the fact that he still refuses to wear a mask? I suggest the one used in Silence of the Lambs by Hannibal Lector (with a little re-fitting for T's big head of course). -or-
(3) hiding the cost of the round of golf and all associated expenses in some shell company for a future fraudulent tax filing?
Thats all I got. I'm sure I missed it. TY
edited to remove large pic
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)tinrobot
(10,893 posts)Excuse me while I scrub the image from eyes.
jcgoldie
(11,627 posts)...his swing is fucking horrible!
bif
(22,693 posts)About what I'd expect from the 400-pound slab of human gristle.
ornotna
(10,798 posts)For a drive off the tee.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)Trump's looks are the best thing about him...and I think he's a hideously ugly doughy blob of shit.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)he swings and then stumbles around from the momentum of it, though it wasn't a huge swing overall. Before that it's hard to tell what's a balance issue and what is the contour of the course. But on that last swing it seems quite clear.
Politicalgolfer
(317 posts)That off balance is common and has nothing to do with age....should see how the macho men who think hitting the little ball is easy stagger & about fall on their asses. Just means Trump isn't a good player & doesn't have the basic fundamental of rhythm & balance.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)and it's not a big swing he's taking at the end there.
It can happen, sure; it's happened to me before too, and I imagine most golfers at one point or another that you lose your balance following the follow through. So it happening in the one drive that we see isn't exactly conclusive of anything. But he clearly tries to keep his balance steady after the follow through and falters.
Politicalgolfer
(317 posts)There are some old pros who couldn't keep their balance but knew how to compensate. In fact, go out in the morning behind the old duffers who are there every day & they stumble around. Actually, Trump does better than most of them of his age.
llmart
(15,536 posts)I need a good laugh.
EndlessWire
(6,488 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)I guess it's been foraging around and lapping up McDonald's like a wildcat as it looks much fatter, and that ass. . . Goddamn. I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)kacekwl
(7,016 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)What I see is people still paying attention to this pathetic criminal loser.
Why are there cameras still sneaking around watching its every move?
Do they have cameras watching Carter, Clinton, Obama and W through a fence?
KY...........
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)take a close look at the caddie, who happens to be the only African-American guy in the video (of course)? He's dressed in the white coveralls, which was a major tradition that began at Augusta National Golf Club, home of the MASTERS Tournament. Anyway, original Grand Slam champion Bobby Jones is the guy most associated with the founding the club back in the early 1930s, but the guy with the real power was a banker named Clifford Roberts.
Roberts was a notorious racist, and famously made the statement about the Masters tournament - "As long as I'm in charge, the players will be white, and the caddies will be black". For decades and decades, the professionals playing in the Masters were not allowed to bring their own caddies, and had to use caddies employed by the club, all of whom were black. Finally, sometime in the 1980s, the players made a big enough stink, and were finally allowed to use their own caddies, but they still had to wear the white coveralls.
Anyway, the bottom line is that the sight of the black caddie in the white coveralls was just another example of a Velveeta Voldemort throwback, to when he believed America was truly "great". Oh, and notice one more thing - the caddie is wearing a mask!
yonder
(9,663 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,275 posts)Looks the same to me, just your every day psychotic pretending to be something he could never achieve.
Curious what specifically is being referred to?