Trump declares himself winner of his own club championship - in Trumpiest way ever

[Zorro]

The former president said he played a strong round two days before the tournament, and decided that would count as his first-round score.

Donald Trump has declared himself a winner … again.

Trump announced on his social media platform on Tuesday that he won the Senior Club Championship at Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach last weekend, despite not playing the first round of the tournament.

Members arrived the second day surprised to see Trump with a five-point lead, according to the Daily Mail. But Trump never played the first round as he was attending a funeral in North Carolina of ardent supporter Lynette Hardaway, known by the moniker “Diamond” of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk.

Trump told tournament organizers he played a strong round on the course Thursday, two days before the tournament started, and decided that would count as his Saturday score for the club championship. That score was five points better than any competitor posted during Saturday's first round.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/sports/2023/01/24/donald-trump-declares-himself-winner-of-his-own-golf-championship/69835418007/

[llashram]

1. such a uber-corrupt

useless POS and Americans voted for this pile. When will we be free? He should be in some jail. F***!!!

[3catwoman3]

2. Isn't this his typical MO?

If you have to cheat to win, where’s the glory?

He is a black hole of neediness.

[Captain Zero]

4. Born on the 18th hole. Thinks he birdied them all.

Something like that?

[PJMcK]

7. Good twist of phrase! (n/t)

[underpants]

9. Sportswriter Rick Reilly called this

Not this specifically but he knew Trump cheated. He always does. Reilly wrote a whole book about him cheating on the golf course

Link to tweet

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[Brother Buzz]

25. Somewhere in Reilly's book...

A sports figure who played a round with Trump was quoted, "Trump doesn't cheat, his caddie does".

I also understand his caddie is the only contractor to not get stiffed by the orange anus; silence comes at a price.


It's the only game I know that you can call a penalty on yourself, if you're honest, which most people are. There just ain't no other game like it. - Hardy Greaves

[underpants]

26. I love Alice Cooper's answer

When asked who the biggest (or worst) celebrity golf cheat is he responded “I have played with Donald Trump”.

[rubbersole]

3. "Your favorite president. More popular than Lincoln, more popular than Washington."

And more honest!
What a fucking loser. He needs to team up with Santos for the Goose and Gander mixed pair tournament.

[Jerry2144]

5. I am surprised he didn't claim

18 holes-in-one since he’s such a stellar paragon of virile masculinity and greatness (in his own mind)

[Blue Owl]

6. The bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the winner of every championship

Apparently, Diarrhea Donny has no fucking clue how pathetic this all looks... No. Fucking. Clue.

FF45 needs a wakeup call -- a cold prison shower might do it....

[3catwoman3]

21. Every morning, I wake up hoping to hear that he has died during the night. May he please...

...be the corpse at his own funeral damn soon. And I don't even feel bad for feeling that way.

I am soooooooooooooooooooo sick of him.

[PJMcK]

8. One important thing about golf

The field of players are supposed to play the same course and conditions. When Trump played his round, the tee boxes and hole locations were different than when the competitors played. The grass may have been wetter or dryer. Even the temperature and humidity can affect the game. All of these things change the course.

Of course, the man-baby has to win and get his two scoops of ice cream. Pathetic.

[underpants]

28. Yep. Back to back too

Not rounds 3 days apart.

[GenThePerservering]

10. Peak Trump NT

[republianmushroom]

11. taken with a grain of salt, trump declares many things that are not quite true

approx.. 30,000 to 40,000 in the last 6 years.

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. It's like counting touchdowns from a previous game

We're using the score from the first quarter when we played Tick-Tock Tech, the 2nd quarter from the Wossamatta U game, the third quarter from Faber College, and by golly, we are leading the University of Georgia by five touchdowns going into the 4th quarter!

[yonder]

23. Faber College. Now that was a team.

[jmowreader]

13. And they just took him at his word that he played a round at all

They kinda had to because he has a history of firing people for no reason, but it still sounds suspect to me.

I’m now thinking back to my late company president Duane Hagadone, who built a very fine golf course as part of his Resort. He had a standing order: if we ever have a tournament out here, you are not allowed to let me enter it.

[Caliman73]

14. Cheating in every way.

There was a sports writer who grew up around the game of golf, to whom it is almost sacred. I think it was Rick Reily, but he wrote a book and was doing the circuit discussing it, especially since he played with Trump on a couple of occasions. He gave a lecture at the Commonwealth Club of California in 2019 about how Golf can explain Donald Trump. It was pretty good.

Golf is supposedly a game of honor. It is actually quite easy to cheat. There really aren't referees like in Football, Basketball, Soccer, etc... That Trump habitually cheats says all we need to know about his character, or lack thereof.

[kairos12]

15. From the guy who runs his golf cart

on the greens.

Slob.

[Initech]

16. I'd be willing to bet good money that he cheats like Goldfinger.

[underpants]

27. I'd heard that George Santos won Trump's tournament

That’s what I heard.

[jcgoldie]

17. The Dallas Cowboys have declared...

They won Sunday’s game in San Francisco… they decided to use their first half score from last Monday’s game against Tampa…

[Whiskeytide]

18. Kim Jong Il would have ...

… kicked Тяцмp‘s ass.

http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/7369649

As an aside, actual golfers would be genuinely pissed off about this kind of dishonesty. It’s a clear character revealing issue.

[Emile]

19. What a pro!

[Irish_Dem]

20. I actually won this tournament.

Even though I have never played golf in my life.
And have only been to Florida twice in my life 30 yrs ago.

[Midnight Writer]

22. He classified it as a tournament game in his mind. As President he can do that.

He didn't even play the game. He had a dream he played and decided it was spectral evidence.

[underpants]

30. Rick Reilly wrote about Trump's impromptu 9 hole club championship

The story goes that Trump sees the guy who won the club championship that year on the course. Trump says he was out of town that weekend so why don’t we play now for the title. This guy, obviously a pretty good player, agrees mostly because you know it’s his course. He was playing a round with his son when this started. Trump beat him over 9 holes and had the name changed in the plaque.


I’m not sure if this started because Trump was about to play this guy’s sons ball (Trump does that a lot) and when confronted Trump came up with this 9 hole thing. It could be all together on the same day.

[Victor_c3]

24. What sort of fragile person needs to always win everything they do?

I guess the answer is trump.

I would say that a “real” man with any sort of self esteem would be perfectly fine with not winning every competition they are a part of.

A “real” man and a true leader would be just fine with not always being the best at every stupid little competition.

Just saying…

[Baitball Blogger]

29. Real golphers would be disgusted with this

Kind of cheating behavior. That should tell you something about the people who congregate around Trump’s country club.

[Oneironaut]

31. Why?

I don’t get the point? This is Kim Jong-Un “Scored 16 hole in ones” level of ridiculous and stupid.

Does he actually think people are dumb enough to think he actually won? Some are probably, but still.

[emulatorloo]

32. He lies about anything and everything. Sort of the proto-George Santos.

[Dave Bowman]

33. What a pathetic insecure clown.

He has the maturity of a 10 y.o. spoiled brat.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. Trump concocts dubious score to win his own golf tournament

TFG cheated

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. Sportswriter Who Golfed With Trump Reveals Exactly How He Cheats At The Game

TFG cheats at every thing and cannot accept that he loses at anything. I am seeing a number of articles poking fun at TFG's cheating at golf.

Link to tweet

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-reilly-trump-golf-cheat_n_6603bd13e4b07b8c86dfbc4e

Sportswriter Rick Reilly is calling BS on Donald Trump after the former president declared himself the winner of both the club championship and senior club championship at the Trump International Golf Club in Florida.

“He’s never won a championship at a course he doesn’t own and operate,” Reilly, who has golfed with Trump, said on MSNBC on Tuesday. “He’s played in Pebble Beach, he’s played in the Tahoe one, where there are rules and judges and cameras. And in those, he’s never finished in the top half. So he wins when anybody who disagrees that he won is out of the club. That’s how he gets it.”

Reilly, who wrote an entire book on how Trump cheats at golf, said the former president even confessed one of his methods: When he buys a golf course, he plays the first round alone and declares himself the course champion.

And that’s not the only trick up Trump’s sleeve.

Reilly said golfers have to trust each other because of the vast distances on the course and the fact that no referees are keeping watch ― and Trump takes full advantage of that.

The former president “always gets a turbo-charged golf cart that goes three times as fast as yours, so he’s always 200 yards ahead, and that gives him time to cheat.”

TFG hates these articles and so it fun seeing Biden mock TFG and his golf game

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Highlights of Trump's 23 "championships"...

Link to tweet