President Donald Trump on Thursday bragged about his golf sport and boasted of successful 38 membership championships, insisting that he did so “legitimately.”
However individuals who’ve performed with Trump have stated in any other case.
“Look, I do know quite a bit about golf. I’ve gained 38 membership championships and I don’t get to follow a lot,” stated Trump, who plays golf through 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 successful a championship at “a giant membership” by beating a 27-year-old participant simply final yr, however didn’t present specifics.
“You realize, membership championships are our majors, you realize that, most individuals can’t play in them, they gained’t,” he stated. “We’re speaking about no strokes or anything. So I’m a really low handicap, and I’ve gained 38 of them legitimately, each one legitimately.”
He claimed his victories should be legit due to the quantity of people that observe alongside throughout championships.
“So I’m a superb golfer, yeah, I must say that,” he insisted. “I wish to be trustworthy. I’ve to be trustworthy.”
Trump was responding to a service member who requested about his golf handicap and if he was ever going to play in opposition to former President Joe Biden.
Naturally, Trump used the query as an opportunity to take just a few photographs at his predecessor.
“You could have lots of people discuss, however they will’t play, like Biden,” he stated. “Biden can’t hit a ball 30 yards, I’m telling you. I checked out his swing. He can not hit a ball 30 yards.”
Trump has up to now spent 82 days of his presidency on golf programs he owns, together with 29 at his course in West Palm Seaside, which is near his Mar-a-Lago residence.
He’s golfed as his tariffs caused economic chaos, headed to the course incessantly during the government shutdown, and even golfed rather 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 an entire book in regards to the expertise known as “Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.”
Reilly stated final yr that Trump cheats at golf “like a mafia accountant” and known as his championships “faux as Velveeta cheese.”
“He’s by no means gained a championship at a course he doesn’t personal and function,” Reilly told MSNBC last year. “He’s performed in Pebble Seaside, he’s performed within the Tahoe one, the place there are guidelines and judges and cameras. And in these, he’s by no means completed within the prime half. So he wins when anyone who disagrees that he gained is out of the membership. That’s how he will get it.”
Earlier this yr, movies surfaced on-line that critics say present the president cheating.
On condition that historical past, Trump’s critics on X weren’t shopping for his newest boast about successful 38 championships “legitimately.”
