Trump is tremendous when it comes to cheating at golf, new book says

AAAintheBeltway said:
He has wasted two years of his presidency, but the shitshow at DOJ that resulted in Mueller is responsible for a lot of that. Still, he appointed Sessions and Rosenstein and the latter is still there somehow. He has two years to turn it around and it is not looking encouraging. Massive illegal crossings, more caravans coming, a hopeless incompetent at Homeland Security and no wall.
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it will all come out for the best

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themickey said:
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Sixteen of the last 19 US presidents have played golf — and now, in Donald John Trump, the nation can finally boast the very best of them all. Well, that’s what he’d like you to believe.

“To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,’” writes Rick Reilly in the new book “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump” (Hachette Book Group), out Tuesday. “He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they aren’t. He cheats whether you like it or not. He cheats because that’s how he plays golf … if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat.”

Reilly, a former Sports Illustrated columnist who has played with Trump in the past, spoke to dozens of players — both amateur and professional — to recount some of the president’s worst cons on the course, starting with his declared handicap of 2.8.

In layman’s terms, the lower the handicap, the better the player. Jack Nicklaus, winner of a record 18 major golf titles and generally considered the greatest golfer in the history of the game, has a handicap of 3.4.

Nicklaus’ handicap is listed on the same Golf Handicap and Information Network website used by Trump, where players post their scores.
“If Trump is a 2.8,” writes Reilly, “Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter.”

Shortly after he became president, Trump played with Tiger Woods, the current world No. 1 Dustin Johnson and the veteran PGA Tour pro Brad Faxon. Given the quality and profile of his companions, you might have thought Trump would have been on his best behavior. Not so.

On one hole, Trump dunked a shot into the lake, but as his opponents weren’t looking he simply dropped another ball — and then hit that into the water, too.

“So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green,” recalls Faxon.

The actor Samuel L. Jackson has also witnessed the underhanded methods Trump employs, according to Reilly.

“We clearly saw him hook a ball into a lake at Trump National [Bedminster, New Jersey],” he says, “and his caddy told him he found it!”

The boxer Oscar De La Hoya and rocker Alice Cooper have also seen the same shenanigans first hand, while LPGA player Suzann Pettersen, another victim, thinks it’s all down to his caddy “since no matter how far into the woods he hits the ball, it’s in the middle of the fairway when we get there.”
And Trump doesn’t just tamper with his own balls.
During a game with Mike Tirico before Trump was elected, the former ESPN football announcer hit the shot of his life, a 230-yard 3-wood towards an elevated green he couldn’t see. But he knew it was close.
When he got to the putting green, however, Tirico’s ball was nowhere to be seen. Instead, it was 50 feet left of the hole in a bunker.
It made no sense — until Trump’s caddy caught up with him after the round.
“Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5?’” Tirico says. “‘It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it in the bunker. I watched him do it.’”

Even Trump’s golf courses lie. As the owner of 14 golf clubs and with his name on another five, Trump has, according to Reilly, been known to wildly exaggerate their standing in course rankings, overvalue them and even play fast and loose with their locations.

At Trump Washington at Lowes Island, there’s a Civil War monument (bearing Trump’s name, obviously) between the 14th and 15th holes, reminding golfers of how many soldiers, from North and South, died at that very spot.

It’s a nice touch, even though several Civil War historians have confirmed that no battle took place anywhere near the memorial.

And what about his course at Bedminster? There’s a plaque there with a quote from the renowned course architect Tom Fazio.

It reads:
This is the best design I’ve ever done.
TOM FAZIO

Except that’s not true, either.
“I don’t believe I said it exactly like that,” Fazio told Reilly.

In a game where etiquette is everything, Reilly reports that Trump never takes his cap off for the end-of-round handshake, nor does he remove it in the clubhouse afterward, presumably for fear of what damage a sweaty round might have done to that hairstyle.

He’s even been known to drive his golf cart onto the putting green, an offense Reilly likens to “hanging your laundry in the Sistine Chapel.”

Quite why Trump cheats is another matter. He is, by all accounts, a very good golfer for his age (even Tiger Woods was impressed) but seems incapable of playing by the rules. Does he even care?
To that, Reilly offers a simple reply.
“Golf,” he writes, “is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man.”

This report originally appeared on NYPost.com.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/t...-at-golf-new-book-says-2019-03-31?mod=hp_econ
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The specificity of the information presented on this bothers me.

Trump also seemed to have unnatural energy levels when compared to some of political opponents when campaigning or even debating.

We have seen a significant number of staff departures during Trump's Presidency. A significant number of them had some seriously negative things to say about him.

Although some news conference videos show Trump as a solidly in charge executive, other videos appear to show Trump with a strange fidgeting when being complimented. In addition, quite a few people in some of these videos don't act naturally or seem comfortable. Trump appeared to be patronized several times by what should have been a friendly crowd.

Methamphetamine? Cocaine? Another explanation for high energy levels and possible mood swings?

By my estimation, Trump's apparent affliction(s) may be handicapping him the same as being 25% Democrat. If Trump should reach 50%, we may have to consider him unfit for office and impeach!
 
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Longtime sports writer claims in new book that Trump uses Secret Service to cheat at golf

Sports writer Rick Reilly wrote in his new book "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump" that the president often uses his caddy or even Secret Service agents to move his golf balls out of difficult spots when on the course, The Independent reported Thursday.

"Whether you’re his pharmacist of Tiger Woods, if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat,” Reilly wrote, adding: "He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching, and he cheats when they aren’t."

He also inflates his golf handicap, which the president professes to be 2.8, and has falsely claimed to have won more than a dozen club championships.

But that claim is “a lie that’s so over-the-top Crazytown, it loses all credibility among golfers the second it’s out of his mouth," Reilly wrote.

Reilly has previously made claims about Trump's integrity on the golf course, prompting a response from then-candidate Trump in 2016: “I always thought he was a terrible writer. I absolutely killed him, and he wrote very inaccurately.”

But Reilly isn't the only one who has accused Trump of cheating. LPGA Tour golfer Suzann Pettersen told a Norwegian newspaper earlier this year that the president "cheats like hell," adding: "I’m pretty sure he pays his caddie well."
 
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