Trump had a terrible July, but at least he played a lot of golf

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

This article has been updated.

It’s hard to see how July could have gone much worse for President Trump.

It was revealed that, contrary to his repeated insistence, his son had been tipped off about Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election — and had embraced those efforts with open arms. Trump signed no new legislation, and saw his main policy focus, health care, collapse yet again on Capitol Hill. He lost his press secretary after hiring a controversial new communications director, and then enjoyed the spectacle of that new hire giving a remarkably vulgar on-record interview to a reporter about his chief of staff, who resigned the next day. Trump traveled to Europe to meet with other world leaders, and returned home to unflattering reviews of his conversation with Vladimir Putin. The one that the White House told reporters about, that is.

But the month wasn’t a total wash! Trump managed to squeeze in at least eight rounds of golf over the course of July and, with the exception of one Saturday he was stuck flying back from Europe, hit up one of his personal businesses on every single weekend day. Silver linings to clouds, etc.

 

As of July 31, Trump’s visited his own properties on 57 of the 193 days he’s been president, a rate of once every 3.4 days. He’s played golf once every 5.7 days — or, at least, that’s what we assume, since the administration never actually admits he’s playing golf. Sometimes, as he did on Sunday, Trump will simply head from the White House to his golf club in Sterling, Va., for four hours or so and not tell the press what he’s doing. Occasionally, photos will leak on social media of Trump on the links or some other person will admit to being part of Trump’s foursome, but the administration likes to keep it vague, apparently so that they can pretend that maybe he was actually just in meetings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/07/31/trump-had-a-terrible-july-but-at-least-he-played-a-lot-of-golf/?utm_term=.7fd855d439aa

[Teddy B 17,252]

Yeah but Obama played golf too!

[smilesammich 10,727]

[JimandChristy 1,689]

He's on course to play more golf than Obama and he's on course to spend far more money than what Obama did in his entire eight years.

[Póg mo 1,749]

3 hours ago, Teddy B said:

Yeah but Obama played golf too!

And Hillary would have been a worse golfer

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

11 minutes ago, Póg mo said:

And Hillary would have been a worse golfer

alas I have squandered my reputation hearts

[smilesammich 10,727]

20 minutes ago, Póg mo said:

And Hillary would have been a worse golfer

 

8 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

alas I have squandered my reputation hearts

as haz me. +100 x 2.

[TBoneTX 45,284]

A completely tasteless post has been removed.

[smilesammich 10,727]

i agree, trump's got to go.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Hey!  He's creating jobs by firing people!

[bcking 3,157]

20 hours ago, JimandChristy said:

He's on course to play more golf than Obama and he's on course to spend far more money than what Obama did in his entire eight years.

Just to be clear...

 

He's on course to spend more in one year than Obama spent in his entire eight years on personal travel.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

Just now, bcking said:

Just to be clear...

 

He's on course to spend more in one year than Obama spent in his entire eight years on personal travel.

yes but my handicap is far superior 

[smilesammich 10,727]

8 minutes ago, bcking said:

Just to be clear...

 

He's on course to spend more in one year than Obama spent in his entire eight years on personal travel.

where did you hear this? washington compost? what the failing ny times doesn't tell you is he's playing golf and working his art of the deal. masterful. shirley, obama wasn't making deals on the golf course.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

[Transborderwife 4,666]

2 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

Just give it to Sarah Huckabee.  If she gets fired it's sexism