Rick Reilly on How Trump Cheated a Teenage Boy to Win a Golf Championship

[Quixote1818]

I am beginning to think Trump is the biggest lowlife to ever walk the Earth. Cheating a little kid at a fucking game is pathetic on such an epic level it's dumbfounding. The lengths as to how low Trump can go seem to be bottomless.

Rick Reilly on How Trump Cheated a Teenage Boy to Win a Golf Championship
A conversation about the president and his favorite sport with the author of Commander in Cheat

By RYAN BORT


Last month, Golf.com reported that President Trump’s 2018 club championship at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, may not have been totally legitimate. Though a plaque at the club lists the president as the victor, the championship was actually won by a hedge fund manager named Ted Virtue. Trump didn’t even compete in the event, but when he ran into Virtue at the club on a later date, he challenged him to an impromptu nine-hole match for the right to the title. Virtue couldn’t not accept. Trump won. The title was his.

But as Rick Reilly explains in his new book Commander in Cheat, an in-depth look at the president’s relationship with golf released Tuesday by Hachette Books, an asterisk the size of Trump’s ego belongs next to every “win” he takes down on the golf course. The 2018 title at Trump International was no exception, as Reilly tells Rolling Stone:

“They’re playing [for the title, along with Virtue’s son], and the story I’ve heard now three times is that Trump hit it in the water on 16. They see the ball go in the water. Virtue hits it on the green, his son hits it on the green, but when they get up there, because Trump is always way ahead in his own cart, the caddy is lining up Trump’s ball for a putt. Virtue’s kid says, ‘Mr. President, that’s my ball.’ The caddy says, ‘No, this is Mr. Trump’s ball. Your ball went in the water.’ And the kid, who’s 12 or 13 or whatever, goes, ‘Dad, that was a new ball. That’s my ball.’ And Virtue’s like, ‘I’ll buy you another ball.’ Trump sinks the putt on that hole and goes on to win, and that’s how he’s the club champion.”

More: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rick-reilly-trump-golf-816324/?fbclid=IwAR2jouWDy3XuQUDgT7usd2S980zgcU8xFpU_OLQfS8G3aTlazl-Hgs_8EqU

[lpbk2713]

1. There has never been such an asshole.

Screw you Putin. You damned the USA all to hell.

[Myrddin]

4. Here's a close contender?

This our former Foreign Secretary - future Prime Minister?!?

Must be something about over-privileged, wealthy-arsehole, right-wing politicians? Though BoJo did at least apologise, I suppose.

[madaboutharry]

2. Trump hates kids, even his own...except for Ivanka.

Seriously, has anyone actually seen even once Trump and Barron speak to each other? Trump doesn’t see kids. They’re invisible to him.

[nuxvomica]

5. Their innocence reflects the image of his own corruption back to him

And it's ugly, like Dorian Gray's portrait ugly. Note how he can easily avoid that reflection with adults, by magnifying their flaws, but you're right, kids, and probably pets too, must be rendered invisible.

[Dorian Gray]

8. Hey! Leave my portrait out of it!

[nuxvomica]

10. LOL! Sorry!

You probably could've alerted on me.

[gratuitous]

3. All right, White House press corps

Here's the deal. I have a crisp five dollar bill right here. The first one of you at any press spray who gets up and asks President Trump, "Why are you such an asshole?" can claim that fiver. Ask the question, get five smackers. Deal?

[Totally Tunsie]

6. Oh hell, I'll throw in another $50!

[Dorian Gray]

9. I would chip in a hundred to a Go Fund Me

for any reporter who asked this.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. One hundred from me, worth every cent.

[SlogginThroughIt]

15. I am all about this. We need to make this happen.

We need to crowd fund this. I bet it would become quite a large sum of money and attract someone willing to ask the question.

[Dorian Gray]

7. That's

a fantastic and eye opening interview. About golf, but also about Trump's integrity and personality.

I sent it to my dad (who is a Republican, has contempt for Trump, and is an avid golfer). Love to hear what he has to say about it.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. This Cheating At An Epic Level!

Rolling a ball for a good lie ( in the fairway), not so bad. Especially if one is playing an economy public track.
Shaving strokes by saying par, when it's a bogey, or bogey when it's a double, BAD!
Stealing someone else's ball to avoid the extra shot and penalty, REALLY BAD!
Doing it to a kid, EPIC BAD!

[NewJeffCT]

13. he's like a bad parody of Judge Smails from Caddyshack

which was already a parody of a rich elitist country club type

[Initech]

14. Trump seems like the kind of guy who would get pleasure from torturing puppies.

Him cheating a 16 year old out of a win is hardly surprising.

[Buckeyeblue]

16. He would claim being an asshole is an attribute

Only assholes can get things done, he would say. And I'm a wonderfully huge asshole. I'm a beautiful asshole, he would continue. The most beautiful asshole this country has ever seen.