Trump's Golf Never Stops

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

If Donald Trump manages to stay healthy and avoid impeachment without being carted off to prison by federal marshals, he will have served 1,461 days when his term of office ends on January 20, 2021.  So far he has been in office a very long and insufferable 569 days – well,  “in office” but not actually in the office.

Donald spends quite a bit of his time away from the Oval Office, often staying at vacation properties which he owns.  He currently at his resort, Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey, an outing that began nine days ago.   In fact, as of today, Donald Trump has spent 62 days of his time as our nation’s leader at Bedminster, 59 of which were consumed with playing golf.  He has also spent 124 days at other Trump properties and used most of those government-funded vacations to play golf as well.

Trump has spent over 25% of his days in office playing golf, and lounged around on Trump properties nearly a third of the time that he has been in office.  He was accompanied on all of those trips by Secret Service personnel and a legion of assorted bureaucrats and flunkies, all of whom enjoyed first-class accommodations and dining on the public dime!

Scattered among the Trump never-ending stream of vacations were also trips to twenty foreign countries and thirty-six states and territories – again, always with an entourage clerks, cuties, and assorted presidential parasites, all of whom require quality board and bedding - and occasionally involving - yes - more golf!

To imagine aloud that Trump, the pampered politician, does not enjoy life in Washington, DC, would be an embarrassing case of understatement.   The denizens of DC are not Trump’s type of people – and many are not even white.   And the noise must be insufferable compared to the serenity of his private clubs. Protesters have been holding evening rallies outside of the White House for weeks now protesting Trump’s coziness with Russian leader Vladimir Putin – and today American racists have a rally in DC planned to mark the one year anniversary of the carnage in Charlottesville, Virginia, that was a result of their presence in that city last August to defend Confederate statues.  

Counter-protesters also plan to be in DC today.

Trump spurred the racists on, but even his presumed allegiance to their cause - whatever the hell it is - does not obligate him to have to remain in the vicinity of the ruckus.  The alt.right circus is just another good reason to be out of town playing golf.

Donald Trump seems to be much more comfortable rubbing elbows with the privileged members and guests at his expensive properties.  Many of those rich folks, both American and foreign, have learned that buying memberships at Trump properties is the most expedient way to gain access to the leader of the free world.  It is “pay-to-play” at the highest level.

The people whom Donald Trump associates with at his exclusive properties may be there for access, and they may have agendas that are not necessarily in the public interest.  But they are a quiet sort, and white, and they pay their dues.  If they fail to secure their advantages with Trump today, they know that they will have many, many more future opportunities to lobby in his golden shadow.   

The White House may shut down for vacations, but Donnie's golf never stops!