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spanone

(135,843 posts)
Mon Mar 27, 2017, 10:03 AM Mar 2017

Trump notches his 13th golf course visit

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump headed to one of his golf courses again Sunday, marking his 13th visit to one since taking office and the eighth consecutive weekend he has spent at properties bearing his name.

While the President hasn't played golf on every visit, sometimes attending to presidential business, the trips underscore a break with his insistence on the campaign trail that he wouldn't spend his time golfing because of how hard he would be working.

White House officials would not provide details about what Trump did at the clubhouse of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, over the weekend.

Both Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, have knocked former President Barack Obama for his time playing golf on the job.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/26/politics/donald-trump-golf/index.html
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Botany

(70,516 posts)
1. NY Time 2/17/17 Trump Criticized Obama for Golfing. Now He Spends Weekends on the Links.
Mon Mar 27, 2017, 10:10 AM
Mar 2017

As a private citizen, Donald J. Trump was repeatedly critical of President Obama’s fondness for relaxing with a round of golf.

“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.” Mr. Trump tweeted on Oct. 13, 2014. “Worse than Carter.”

“We pay for Obama’s travel so he can fundraise millions so Democrats can run on lies,” he said a day later. “Then we pay for his golf.”

Then for a third time that month, Mr. Trump tweeted about Mr. Obama’s golf habit on Oct. 23, 2014.

“President Obama has a major meeting on the N.Y.C. Ebola outbreak, with people flying in from all over the country, but decided to play golf!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/us/politics/donald-trump-golf-obama.html?_r=0

Johonny

(20,851 posts)
4. I think I speak for everyone when I say, he doesn't have to come back from these trips
Mon Mar 27, 2017, 10:26 AM
Mar 2017

Trump stay golfing, please.

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