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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump notches his 13th golf course visit
While the President hasn't played golf on every visit, sometimes attending to presidential business, the trips underscore a break with his insistence on the campaign trail that he wouldn't spend his time golfing because of how hard he would be working.
White House officials would not provide details about what Trump did at the clubhouse of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, over the weekend.
Both Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, have knocked former President Barack Obama for his time playing golf on the job.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/26/politics/donald-trump-golf/index.html
Botany
(77,859 posts)As a private citizen, Donald J. Trump was repeatedly critical of President Obamas fondness for relaxing with a round of golf.
Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Mr. Trump tweeted on Oct. 13, 2014. Worse than Carter.
We pay for Obamas travel so he can fundraise millions so Democrats can run on lies, he said a day later. Then we pay for his golf.
Then for a third time that month, Mr. Trump tweeted about Mr. Obamas golf habit on Oct. 23, 2014.
President Obama has a major meeting on the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak, with people flying in from all over the country, but decided to play golf!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/us/politics/donald-trump-golf-obama.html?_r=0
L. Coyote
(51,134 posts)Botany
(77,859 posts)The Trumps are grifters.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028857835
Johonny
(26,601 posts)Trump stay golfing, please.
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