President Donald Trump on Thursday bragged about his golf recreation and boasted of profitable 38 membership championships, insisting that he did so “legitimately.”
However individuals who’ve performed with Trump have mentioned in any other case.
“Look, I know a lot about golf. I’ve won 38 club championships and I don’t get to practice much,” mentioned Trump, who performs golf by means of most weekends, costing taxpayers some $70 million whilst he makes extreme cuts elsewhere in authorities.
Throughout a vacation name with U.S. service members, Trump bragged about profitable a championship at “a big club” by beating a 27-year-old participant simply final 12 months, however didn’t present specifics.
“You know, club championships are our majors, you know that, most people can’t play in them, they won’t,” he mentioned. “We’re talking about no strokes or anything else. So I’m a very low handicap, and I’ve won 38 of them legitimately, every one legitimately.”
He claimed his victories have to be legit due to the quantity of people that observe alongside throughout championships.
“So I’m a good golfer, yeah, I would have to say that,” he insisted. “I want to be honest. I have to be honest.”
Trump was responding to a service member who requested about his golf handicap and if he was ever going to play towards former President Joe Biden.
Naturally, Trump used the query as an opportunity to take a number of pictures at his predecessor.
“You have a lot of people talk, but they can’t play, like Biden,” he mentioned. “Biden can’t hit a ball 30 yards, I’m telling you. I looked at his swing. He cannot hit a ball 30 yards.”
Trump has to this point spent 82 days of his presidency on golf programs he owns, together with 29 at his course in West Palm Seashore, which is near his Mar-a-Lago house.
He’s golfed as his tariffs precipitated financial chaos, headed to the course continuously throughout the federal government shutdown, and even golfed relatively than attend the return of stays of 4 U.S. troopers killed abroad throughout a coaching mission.
However whereas the president spends loads of time {golfing}, these he’s golfed with and different observers say he’s not practically nearly as good as he’s boasted.
Sportswriter Rick Reilly has not solely performed with the president however authored a whole ebook in regards to the expertise known as “Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.”
Reilly mentioned final 12 months that Trump cheats at golf “like a mafia accountant” and known as his championships “fake as Velveeta cheese.”
“He’s never won a championship at a course he doesn’t own and operate,” Reilly instructed MSNBC final 12 months. “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.”
Earlier this 12 months, movies surfaced on-line that critics say present the president dishonest.
Provided that historical past, Trump’s critics on X weren’t shopping for his newest boast about profitable 38 championships “legitimately.”
