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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/31/trump-golf-southern-white-house.htmlPosted on Tue, Dec 31st, 2019 by Jason Easley
Trump Tries To Hide His Golfing With Absurd Southern White House Lie
Trump went golfing while a US embassy was under attack and then lied while calling his private club the Southern White House.
Trump tweeted:
Very good meeting on the Middle East, the Military, and Trade. Heading back to The Southern White House (Mar-a-Lago!). Updates throughout the day.
11:51 AM · Dec 31, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
The presidents lie was a cover-up that defied common sense. If Trump needed to hold meetings with the military after the embassy attack, why did he go to a golf course? He could have held the meetings at his private club. A president doesnt go to a golf course to hold vital meetings during an international crisis.
Trump went to his golf course to play golf.
The president knows that he isnt doing his job and that most Americans will be outraged by him golfing as an American embassy was attacked.
Trumps private club is not a Southern White House. It is not government property. His club is a for-profit entity. There is no Southern White House. It is a private club where Trump hangs out and bilks taxpayers out of millions of dollars.
Instead of protecting and serving his country, Donald Trump played golf while an embassy was under attack.
SWBTATTReg
(22,222 posts)where was idiot rump when all of this crap was happening? On a f**king golf course, where else? Hypocrites. We need to have at least 8 House Committee meetings to investigate what in the hell was rump doing while this attack was happening to an American embassy...and have HRC chair each and every one of them.
KSNY
(315 posts)-- the children's book George W Bush kept on reading while the twin towers and the Pentagon were under attack.
I hope that this brings him down though. Complete indifference to American lives under attack.
BigmanPigman
(51,672 posts)It is true. They simply do not care that he is golfing instead of attending to his POTUS duties and they don't care that all the money for these outings are tax payer funded and goes back into the moron's own bank account eventually. They should care but the reality is they don't. He can do no wrong in their eyes.
babylonsister
(171,111 posts)for his cult. Maybe there's someone out there who might consider this the last straw. I can hope.
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)Hypocrites, every single last one of those POS.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,603 posts)Imagine if he had called Hawaii "The Western White House" and spent half his time playing golf there.
Kingofalldems
(38,514 posts)Stuart G
(38,458 posts)While the embassy was under attack,
Trump was looking for his golf ball,
And that says it all.
erronis
(15,470 posts)or as stormy said, it was hard to even find his mushroom.
Evolve Dammit
(16,818 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Right.
Heard this SO many times.
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)Any wonder we are SO NUMB to each and every catastrophic and idiotic thing that happens with this mis-administration?
XRubicon
(2,213 posts)It's on Southern blvd in west palm. The police were blocking all the cross roads, I did not see shitbirds limo but I did see ambulance and a bunch of SUV speeding by headed toward mar a shithole. So I assume he left golf around then.
Mar a shithole is a country club not a private mansion, it's not even a real hotel and has no golf course on site. He ain't that rich.
Ligyron
(7,645 posts)I'm in Wellington but how different could the weather be 10 miles away, esp in winter? He wouldn't want to get wet, his hair would collapse or he might just turn green and melt like his crush the wicked witch. But by 1 the clouds were gone and clear skies all afternoon and the low 55 tonite, nice!
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)They HATE it when he comes to town. Roads closed. Shops lose money. Traffic effed up all over the place. Choppers overhead. He COSTS the taxpayers of West Palm a lot of $$$$. And of course, he never makes any mention of all the loss of revenue to all the shop owners in the area.
yellowdogintexas
(22,292 posts)for use as a Winter White House. Oh the irony! NPS returned it to the trust because it was too expensive to keep it up. Congre An act of Congress in 1981 made it official.
It has 85 bedroomswso it could be a place that members could use to host guests or if a president were in residence, for hosting dignitaries. (like the big dog from China with the perfect chocolate cake)
stillcool
(32,626 posts)someone tells him what to say, and he says whatever he remembers and ad-libs from there.
JDC
(10,152 posts)brewens
(13,671 posts)tblue37
(65,552 posts)really take a nasty PR hit it he was caught golfing during an embassy attack.
That's the only thing that would cause him to cut short his golf game.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)Trump had actually referred to it as 'The Winter White House' before he was officially sworn in. He tweeted a picture of himself sitting at a desk with a blank pad of paper and a sharpie, claiming he was 'working on his inaugural address at the Winter White House.
I'm sure he and his half-wit followers like to think of him as a sort of Kublai Khan, with a 'winter palace' in Xanadu.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Id throw a shoe too if I ever turned that crap on.
LuvNewcastle
(16,867 posts)There. Fixed it.
calimary
(81,608 posts)Like the Russian czars did?
I think thats what they called their digs in the Crimea.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,614 posts)it's just stunning. He is really a piece of work... ...
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)They both called their spreads the Western White House.
This is just one of the privileges that accrues to Republican presidents.
Of course, if President Obama would have done this, the outrage would have blown the roof off the Fox News studios.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)That is all!
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)The orange asshole is not the only one to blame here. His delusional, cultist followers, are every bit as much to blame.
I will never lift a single finger to help any of these assholes. They are all dead to me.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's his private, for-profit, resort. He is such a disgusting, traitorous pig who is milking taxpayers for his own private profit. Why can't this be stopped? I don't understand why this is allowed.
yellowdogintexas
(22,292 posts)Mar-a-Lago (/ˌmɑːrəˈlɑːɡoʊ/) is a resort and national historic landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.
At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property to the National Park Service, hoping it could be used for state visits or as a Winter White House, but because the costs of maintaining the property exceeded the funds provided by Post, and it was difficult to secure the facility (as it is located in the flight path of Palm Beach Airport), the property was returned to the Post Foundation by an Act of Congress in 1981.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago for more information. Interestingly, during the time it was in possession of NPS, Nixon did not use it because he preferred "The Florida White House" on Key Biscayne
As Charlie Pierce likes to say "History is so cool"
The first president to have a "summer White House" was Cleveland and it was on Cape Cod! I have a vague memory of other presidents having alternate "White Houses" located on their own property..
None of this negates the fact that #45 describing the place as the "Southern White House" cheapens the whole history of alternate "White Houses" attributed to past Presidents. (Probably it was started by the press, with Cleveland, you know )
yellowdogintexas
(22,292 posts)This is some fun reading, with lots of little tidbits.
It seems the press did create the nicknames for the alternate residences of the various presidents (like FDR's "Little White House" in Warm Springs GA for example)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_residences_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
I repeat, #45 cheapens the whole concept maybe because he was harping on about Mar a Lago being the "Southern White House" as if he thought it up and no one else had ever had an alternative"White House"
The irony of its original owner intending for the place to be a second Presidential residence is just incredible. She is probably rolling in her grave.
lame54
(35,353 posts)oasis
(49,490 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,217 posts)I was in Key West not too long ago and I saw The 'Southern White House', and Trump's name was nowhere on it... funny.
yellowdogintexas
(22,292 posts)I know he had one in Florida (thanks to those cool Wiki articles I read last night)
Nixon had one in Key Biscayne, which the press referred to as the "Florida White House"
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)Yes, indeed, he DID go to Key West to get away from the SOB's in Washington (his words, honest!).
Great reading..............
https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/
Vinca
(50,334 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)usaf-vet
(6,239 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,078 posts)Fuck him and his armed, racist shit heads.
dlk
(11,606 posts)Hes far too lazy. This latest horror reminds me of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. We can all wonder whos actually been at the helm while Trump is busy making America great again.
czarjak
(11,344 posts)The Nuclear Codes!
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)One has to be a REAL POTUS to claim any of their properties as an auxiliary WH. Trump is a fraud, therefore, Mar-a-Lago is simply another home in Palm Beach.