'I can't go': Trump blows up on prosecutors for keeping him from attending PGA event in Scotland

[brooklynite]

Raw Story

On Sunday afternoon Donald Trump pitched a fit that his legal problems are keeping him from attending a golf tournament being held at his golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Taking to his Truth Social account, the former president claimed "I can't go" and blamed it on the "Crazed Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Marxists, and Fascists" who are ruining his golf enjoyment.

According to the former president who is facing four separate indictments and a handful of civil lawsuits, "I have the Staysure Senior PGA Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland, on my great course, and I can’t go. I have to stay around and fight off the Crazed Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Marxists, and Fascists."

He then added, "I wouldn’t want to be in Europe and watch this COUNTRY DESTROYING Scum work their disgusting and illegal 'magic' on unsuspecting Republican 'leaders' who just don’t think it is appropriate to Fight Fire With Fire. BUT WE WILL WIN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Just to clarify. He doesn't have a travel restriction imposed on him at this point.

[Ocelot II]

1. That's too bad; he certainly would have won it if he'd have gone.

[getagrip_already]

13. He'll win the tournament anyway...

He will use rounds he may have played in Bedminster and self report those scores for the tournament rounds.

Seems only fair to him!

[ProfessorGAC]

51. After Subtracting 10 Shots Per Nine.

A double, 12 bogeys & 2 pars . "I shot 66!"

[rpannier]

90. I heard he's teeing off from VA

VA to Scotland is par 2 for the great golfer

[Initech]

16. He rigs his own tournamnets so much it would make even Goldfinger mad.

[GoCubsGo]

19. I don't think he was slated to be a participant.

It's more that it was being held at his dump, and that he would just be on the sidelines whoring for attention. I kind of doubt he even planned on going in the first place, and is just using an opportunity to play victim.

[Ocelot II]

28. Doesn't matter - he'd have claimed he won even if he didn't play.

Zero strokes is the lowest score, right?

[magicarpet]

49. Every opportunity he gets to play victim,....

.... balloons his coffers with mucho Dinero. If he habitually plays the sympathy factor his mindless cult followers come rushing to his aid because the Dems are so mean to him. Yet he is as pure as the freshly fallen snow.

Running for pee-resident is his cash cow and he knows how to milk it until it runs dry.

[2naSalit]

96. +1

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. Poor little thing is

starting to feel how bad he fucked up. Good

[usaf-vet]

38. Remember HE promised that he was going to be SO BUSY as POTUS that he wouldn't have time for golf.

FINALLY, that bold lie is coming to pass. He tries to convince his followers (aka dumb cult members) that, one, he won the election and is still POTUS.

And two, he needs another grift so his followers (aka dumb cult members) will send him their rent money, health care money, food money, booze, and drug money.

Because as the rest of the sane world knows he is LYING!

[TheBlackAdder]

43. He's pissed that Poland and others closed their border with Belarus. Can't dart over the border.

[KentuckyWoman]

3. Does Scotland still want him?

He's in trouble for fraud there too. Yes? Is he due for a mugshot there? I looked but the google was no help. Just mentioned the Unexplained Wealth Order which I believe is basically money laundering.

[Aristus]

6. I don't think they ever wanted him.

This list of Scottish insults is pure comedy gold. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life:

https://9gag.com/gag/abZy938

[KentuckyWoman]

11. Holy God.

I could just hug you for that. I am absolutely watering from the face laughing.

THANK YOU.

[Aristus]

91. As you wish...

[txwhitedove]

59. Wow, thanks. He's definitely a Cockwomble.

[erronis]

75. Wonderful set of Scots responses

To djt's "Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!

Scotland voted to remain, you tit.

Scotland voted Remain, you weapons-grade plum.

Uh @rdt Scotland was more yellow than your fake tan (map of voting by country)

Scotland wanted to remain in the EU you utter Twonk - Who is using the Trump family brain cell today?

they voed IN you absolute fucking doughnut. A future leader? You couldn't lean an OAP egg and spoon race.

Can the people of Scotland have the bits of our country that you build cheap tacky golf resorts over back please?

... you mangled apricot hellbeast

.. you utter and complete eejit.

... you clueless numpty

... you bloviating flesh bag

... you touped fucktrumpet

... you incompressible jizztrumpet

[Ferrets are Cool]

86. Laughing my ass off. They DO have a way with words.

Cocksplat.

[geardaddy]

99. I love these!

Thanks for sharing!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

31. As if the defendant would have gone lol... the Scots don't have Fox, do have hate speech laws.

Not to mention few MAGAs.

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Makes me wonder if DOJ has his passport.

n/t

[former9thward]

41. They don't.

They didn't ask for it and it was not taken.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. If we let him go, do we have to let him back in? /nt

[LuckyCharms]

7. Gee, the guy has it rough.

[sheshe2]

48. This is hillarious...it talking about golf but..😭

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PLAYING FROM THE ROUGH
If your ball has found the rough with your tee shot, the next decision you make is extremely important. One of the biggest mistakes most golfers make is not evaluating their lie in the rough properly. If you are too aggressive, and do not anticipate how the club face will react to your lie, you will ultimately compound your initial mistake.

When your ball is in the rough you are in some form of trouble. Your main goal should be to play the highest-percentage shot based on your lie, and return your ball back to safety. Anything you can do to prevent striking the grass before the ball is important.

snip

Depending on your lie, it will be more challenging to produce a consistent, clean strike that will get your ball moving towards your target.
You won’t be able to spin the ball, and it will likely release much farther than usual if you do hit the green.
https://practical-golf.com/the-definitive-guide-to-playing-from-the-rough/

[Photochop Fodder]

8. Poor picked on Slapnuts.

He's upset now wait until he can't play golf because he's behind bars.Nothing makes me happier than knowing that piece of shit is miserable.

[NutmegYankee]

9. He likely still has his passport. But the UK will deny entry to someone under felony indictment.

[Disaffected]

12. Yes, that could well be the reason

as he is not under US travel restrictions.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. He could have gone, but he decided to surrender in Atlanta too late

The Staysure PGA Seniors Championship (he's so involved in it, he can't get the name quite right) started on Thursday, when he was busy having his mugshot taken.

https://www.legendstour.com/tournament/staysure-pga-seniors-championship-2023

Of course, you might think that someone running for US president wouldn't feel like taking 3 or more days off, just to pose at a golf course a few thousand miles away where everyone hates him. Whether or not the legal process forced him to be around to account for his crimes.

[erronis]

37. Oh, I thought "Staysure" was a super Depends. Trump branded.

Never leaks...

[Delmette2.0]

27. Good catch. That is a really nice piece of information.

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. For an indictment? I don't think so.

https://freemovement.org.uk/general-grounds-refusal-criminal-convictions-public-good-character-conduct-associations/

A conviction with a prison sentence is a mandatory refusal; other convictions are discretionary. Remember, this is official, so the "innocent until proved guilty" thing applies here. There is also the "Poor character, conduct or associations" chance, but don't expect a Tory government, or any, to actually try to apply that to a former US president when the US hasn't managed to convict him yet.

Remember, Trump is a whiny liar, not someone giving real reasons why he's not bunking off at a golf course.

[Disaffected]

60. I'm not so sure about that.

In Canada (whose laws closely mirror those of the UK (except for mainly francophone issues), it may be grounds for inadmissibility. Look at item (c) below:

...........

(2) A foreign national is inadmissible on grounds of criminality for

(a) having been convicted in Canada of an offence under an Act of Parliament punishable by way of indictment, or of two offences under any Act of Parliament not arising out of a single occurrence;

(b) having been convicted outside Canada of an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an indictable offence under an Act of Parliament, or of two offences not arising out of a single occurrence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute offences under an Act of Parliament;

(c) committing an act outside Canada that is an offence in the place where it was committed and that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an indictable offence under an Act of Parliament; or

(d) committing, on entering Canada, an offence under an Act of Parliament prescribed by regulations.

...........

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-2.5/section-36.html

Now, who knows if that would actually apply to Whiney Whistledick (I luv that moniker) but it is a distinct possibility.

I believe felony indictment may be ground for inadmissibility simply because a country may not wish to get involved in an expensive extradition court battle, especially in the case of a high profile defendant.

[muriel_volestrangler]

70. Well, that is all about convictions, isn't it? No, it's not a distinct possibility.

"I believe felony indictment may be ground for inadmissibility simply because a country may not wish to get involved in an expensive extradition court battle, especially in the case of a high profile defendant."

Huh? Laws don't run on "wishes". If you mean they think Trump would have tried to stay in the UK permanently, rather than return to the USA to face trial, I refer you to the election campaign he's running. And if the USA doesn't think he's a flight risk, why would other countries take it on themselves to declare him a flight risk?

[Disaffected]

73. It's not all about convictions.

Reread clause (c).

And no, laws don't run on wishes. "Wishes" sometimes result in relevant laws which is what I was referring to.

[brooklynite]

79. He hasn't committed anything...

Legally speaking.He’s been accused of committing something.

[Disaffected]

81. Yeah, I'm not certain clause (c) would apply to Trump's case but,

clause (b) refers to "having been convicted..". So then, what case does clause (c) refer to? I can't think of anything much else other than being under indictment or similar.

As mentioned before, there would certainly be incentive for a country to refuse entry of a person under indictment to avoid a possibly long and expensive extradition battle.

A somewhat relevant case comes to mind with the Chinese woman who was the subject of not an indictment but an arrest warrant in the US because she and her company (Huawei) were accused of violating US trade sanctions against Iran. She landed in Canada enroute to some other country, was held in custody by US request, and the US then attempted to extradite her. The case went on for many months and great expense (and political cost) to all involved.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/meng-wanzhou-huawei-kovrig-spavor-1.6188472#:~:text=Meng%20Wanzhou%20reaches%20a%20deferred,in%20a%20New%20York%20courtroom.

[Sky Jewels]

10. Whiny Whistledick keeps whistling...

It's like an annoying fly in the background.

[Disaffected]

14. Heh, I've got to remember that one.

[Initech]

15. Womp womp, asshole!

[treestar]

17. Is he not allowed to go?

Like unable to leave the country due to his arrest?

No wonder he is so whiny. Can't do whatever he wants as he has done all his life. this must seem terrible.

[former9thward]

42. He is not under any restriction.

He can go if he wanted to.

[treestar]

106. surprising then that he doesn't go

maybe his lawyers found a way to convince him it is the prosecutors who are doing this terrible thing to him.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Wanna bet he never had plans to attend it in the first place?

And, that he's just using it as an excuse to whine and cry and play the victim?

[RKP5637]

20. And Republicans at one time said he was an excellent role model for their kids. I wonder

if they still feel the same. Well, he's the pinnacle for Family Values in their eyes, I guess.

[calimary]

21. I DO believe in making America great again, donald.

It’ll be when we’re all FINALLY rid of YOU!!!

[bif]

22. Oh quit your bellyaching, ya 400-pound slab of human gristle!

[jmowreader]

23. Let's hear it for that two-tiered system of justice

Anyone else in the country facing 93 felony indictments would be picking up trash next to the Interstate, discussing his case with his lawyer through an inch-thick window and asking his cellmate what the current postage stamp-ramen exchange rate is. Trump gets to walk free.

[GopherGal]

25. I, for one, want to see this country "DESTROYING Scum" like him.

Go, Fani!
(And Jack, and Tish...)

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Dip's self-pity is almost as nice as his self-agrandizement.

Such a charming psychopath.

[odiometus]

29. It's as normal as Dwight Eisenhower saying --

"June 6? Can't go lead D-Day, have a golf date, sorry."

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

69. I find it physically revolting to think that Ike sat in that office

and that decades later, it was occupied by a creature so integrity-challanged, so pathetically weak, with not one milligram of honesty, courage or commitment to this country; a moral compass shattered by the weight of his ego, no code of ethics to guide him, no empathy to comfort the nation in times of stress. An utterly useless, worthless waste of oxygen.

[dmr]

103. This is an emotion I've been trying to deal with

since January 2016.

You explained it well. Thank you.

He sat where great men have sat, and another one sits today. That has been so disturbing, sickening, and heartbreaking to me.

And the worse thing ... that is only a minor issue about TFG that is killing me. I am thankful for the indictments.

[musclecar6]

30. And

To think he had his heart set on being a modern day Adolph. So close and now he’s just a laughing stock.

[bluestarone]

32. I'm 100% sure that

Scotland is VERY VERY VERY HAPPY!!!!!!!

[SalamanderSleeps]

33. What?

"I wouldn’t want to be in Europe and watch this COUNTRY DESTROYING Scum work their disgusting and illegal 'magic' on unsuspecting Republican 'leaders' who just don’t think it is appropriate to Fight Fire With Fire. BUT WE WILL WIN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Maybe, they don't want to fall in line with you because it looks like you are going to be convicted, bigly.

[mwb970]

34. Such a whiny, weepy little baby.

He's a babysitter's worst nightmare.

[ificandream]

36. He really is mentally disturbed.

Whining about "crazed radical left lunatics, communists, Marxists and fascists" is putting on a show for his mob but also should have thinking people questioning whether he should be in the Oval Office.

[erronis]

39. Staysure sounds like a adult diaper that is glued onto his ass.

Probably has a black-water exhaust port for the hourly purges.

[peggysue2]

40. Oh, Boo-Hoo

What a whiney baby, the ever-aggrieved toddler who blames the Universe for his self-inflicted wounds (no disrespect to toddlers, btw).

Here's my on-going response:

[barbtries]

44. he didn't have to turn in his passport?

he's just full of shit?

probably can't afford to go. lol

[orleans]

45. WOMP WOMP. he probably can't afford to gas up the plane and go. nt

[Johonny]

46. The tweet room of his presidential museum

Will be pure comedy gold for years to come

[dchill]

47. Activist judges are taking away his absolute right to free strokes!

[dflprincess]

50. Wasn't Scotland looking into money laundering

At his golf clubs?

Maybe he's afraid he'll get charged there too.

[sinkingfeeling]

52. Was helping to "win" that tournament? Does he play on

the Senior PGA Circuit?

[ProfessorGAC]

54. If He Did...

...the only way he could win the tournament is if they only counted his strokes for 2 rounds, not all 3.

[Paladin]

53. However will he be able to maintain that 215 lb. weight??? (nt)

[maxrandb]

55. A better question should be "Why is the PGA supporting this fascist dipshit"?

Look, it's pretty fucking simple.

Nothing will change! The racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy...NONE OF IT...will change, unless and until we make racism, fascism, misogyny, hatred and white supremacy unprofitable to the businesses, corporations and individuals that fund and enable it

I don't golf, with the exception of the once a year church fundraiser, but I will do all that I can to put the fucking PGA out of business.

Fuck these Saudi asskissers.

[SCantiGOP]

62. I don't know why this is a PGA event

The PGA Seniors event was held this week in Michigan. I looked up this tournament, and there isn’t a single player there that I am aware has played in the US on the PGA Seniors or regular tour.
This isn’t more or less a local tournament in Scotland.

[struggle4progress]

56. Who knew felony indictments could be so inconvenient?

[DinahMoeHum]

57. Baby! Baby!! Waaah!!! WAAAH!!!

Baby! Baby!! Waaah!!! WAAAH!!!

[AllaN01Bear]

58. o fluff off trump. its always about u.

well wah.

[William769]

61. ...

[catbyte]

63. LOL

He should be sitting in a stinking prison cell. Cry me a river, traitor.

[Rebl2]

64. Cry me a river

Should have had passport revoked.

[Ford_Prefect]

65. The financing of his Scottish resorts is under investigation as a possible money laundering scheme.

I'm not sure where that is in the way of who has found what but money laundering investigations can take time, as we have seen.

[JudyM]

66. Heartless buffoon doesn't blink about kids in cages but whines about missing golf.

[onethatcares]

67. all he has to do is

put the numbers 67 on his score card and he wins. He's an amazing 67 shooter.

[Sneederbunk]

68. The people of Scotland thank the American court system.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

71. TFG wanted to compete in this tournament

Based on TFG's claimed scores, TFG could win this tournament

[agingdem]

72. he should go...and never come back..

[Wednesdays]

74. That's a shame.

[Chainfire]

76. I guess the judge told him, "Don't leave town." :)

My heart bleeds for the bastard.

[Quixote1818]

77. This makes me smile. :) nt

[Emile]

78. He is such a Super Victim

[sellitman]

82. Stealing

Love it.

[kentuck]

80. Call the guys in the white coats...

He's ready to be taken away.

[DFW]

83. Well, he DOES have his own plane

Whether or not he has the spare cash to pay his bill is another matter. Maybe he can legally rationalize using his campaign contributions to finance his luxury life-style in the USA, but using them to claim he’s holding limited rallies at Scottish golf resorts might not be so easy to justify to the FEC.

[brooklynite]

88. No restriction on using campaign cash...

...assuming he has the campaign cash in the first place (legal bills and whatnot). Reminder that Bernie Sanders paid for his 2016 trip to the Vatican conference from his campaign funds.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-brings-family-trip-vatican/story?id=38416805

[DFW]

92. I know he did.

As far as I'm concerned, he had no business doing that either, whether or not it was perfectly legal. That's not what people who contributed to his campaign intended their funds to be used for. He was my first campaign contribution of the 2016 season. All my other contributions went elsewhere.

[Mopar151]

104. Fueling up the airliner ain't cheap!

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777 Fuel capacities range from 31,000 gal. to 45,200 gal. Maximum range in miles: 6030 / 8130.

So, a little back of the envelope figuring sez that 31,000 gallons @ $6/gallon (my estimate of airport price for Jet A) = $186000.00!!!!

[Aussie105]

84. Is he starting to realise he can't just do what he wants?

Good!

Get used to it!

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! By locking the mangled apricot hell-beast up for a very long time.

[Ferrets are Cool]

85. My take from this....Shame on the Senior PGA Championship for having a tournament there.

[dawn5651]

87. i guess scotland won't let him in. he spent more time on the golf course than he did in the oval

office when he was fouling up the presidency

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

89. That's about par for the course.

He lies about his height. He lies about his weight. Now he's lying about non-existent travel restrictions. What a maroon!

BTW, would someone please tell TFG and his cohorts (MTG, DeSatan, etc.) that communism, Marxism, fascism and socialism are four different political philosophies? While you're at it, smack 'em upside the head until they say it's the Democratic Party and not the "Democrat Party." I know that was one of the recommendations Frank Luntz made during Gingrich's "Contract on America," but it's gotten old.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

93. Inmate P01135809 still doesn't get it......

Link to tweet

[ailsagirl]

94. I bet the Scots are ecstatic!!

They loathe him. Period.

[republianmushroom]

95. tsk, tsk donald, with 91 counts against you, you shouldn't be out of a jail cell.

lock him up
31 months and counting

[ECL213]

97. Aww, you know who else can't go:

Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police, who was attacked by the mob, died on Jan. 7.

Officer Jeffrey Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department killed himself after the attack.

Officer Howard S. Liebengood of the Capitol Police also died by suicide four days afterward.

And the hundreds of thousands of people who died of COVID because you were so great at being *President.

Go fuck yourself you bag of dogshit.

[IronLionZion]

98. I hear there's great golfing in Moscow

he should go there and stay there.

[Smackdown2019]

100. Snowflake

Heard it for years during his administration...


Now back at him, snowflake!

Blah blah blah.

[BlueIdaho]

101. The truth is

He can’t afford the jet fuel needed to cart his fat arse there and back.

[BlueWavePsych]

102. Never forget ...

[sakabatou]

105. He should have a travel restriction.