KING: Conservatives don't hate a golfing President, but they hated an uppity Negro golfing President
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KING: Conservatives don't hate a golfing President, but they hated an uppity Negro golfing President
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APR 17, 2017 | 12:49
No President in American history has ever golfed more per week than Donald Trump. In his first 12 weeks in office Trump took a staggering 18 golf course trips . That's unheard of. In his first 12 weeks in office, President Obama didn't visit a single golf course . By the end of this year, it's likely that Trump will have golfed more than President Obama has in his entire presidency.
And that's strange. It's really strange. Because Donald Trump and other conservative pundits seemed to be deeply bothered by the times President Obama went out and golfed. It appeared to genuinely offend them. They obsessed over it.
Throughout the campaign, Trump frequently riffed on how much Obama golfed and pledged, "I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf." The crowd ate it up.
Throughout the Obama administration, any time President Obama golfed, some famous conservative pundit chimed in. It was a reliable punchline that consistently got a rise out of their base.
Just a few months earlier, Newt Gingrich tweeted (his misspellings not mine), "Trump and president obsma both golf but trump doesn't charge the taxpayers $920,000 for a golf weekend in florida."
Suddenly, the costs of golfing don't seem to offend Trump or Newt or Hannity anymore. And I sincerely, genuinely don't think the problem is political. It's racial.
More than ever, it's clear that conservatives never really had a problem with a golfing President, what they hated seeing was a black golfing President. I also think this was the subconscious message that Trump was pulling on throughout the campaign trail to his almost exclusively white audiences.
The racist caricature of the "uppity negro" has deep roots in this country. Uppity negroes have irritated white folk for over a hundred years. In its most simple form, the uppity negro is a black man or woman who enjoys anything other than working from sunup to sundown. Particularly, an uppity negro is a black man or woman who enjoys creature comforts in life that some whites may not yet be able to afford to enjoy — say a musical, a play, fine dining, or, you guessed it, a round of golf.
It's why referencing Obama golfing got such a rise out of white, working-class crowds. It was a coded way to say, "How dare that uppity negro golf and enjoy leisure time while we work hard to make this country what it truly is?" Of course, they could never use those words, but I truly believe that is what they wanted to say every single time they expressed disgust and disdain seeing Obama golf.
And it's why those same conservatives are now silent. The problem wasn't that they hated seeing a President spend the money on golfing. The problem wasn't that they hated seeing a President spend precious time on the golf course. A golfing President never disgusted them. The problem was that few things irritate bigoted white men more than an uppity negro.
And if Obama was anything to the average white bigot, he was just that — the quintessential uppity negro, with his Harvard Law degree, and his beach trips to his home state of Hawaii. Over and over again, white conservatives obsessed over things like the exact costs of Obama's family vacations. Now though — with tons of money being spent to protect the entire Trump family as they gallivant all over the world, for business or pleasure, those same critics are now silent.
Imagine Michelle Obama demanded to live in a gold-plated penthouse in the middle of Manhattan, costs be damned, while President Obama lived in the White House alone. The outrage would be riot-level fierce. Now, conservatives no longer care.
Again, it was never about costs, or convenience, it was all about white rage at the gall of uppity negroes to do anything other than work their fingers to the bone.
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This seed is just a sweeping generalization. A YUGE double sweeping generalization actually.
Worked in a little body shaming as well.
Nice job!
Trump has already out golfed Obama, Bush and every President in history, all to profit for himself and line his own pockets.
Every single news cycle print his trips to every golf course, which only stands as proof Trump lies. He said on the campaign trail he would be "working hard", "harder than any other President. But we all see it before our very eyes that he isn't working hard, he is out there golfing at his resorts and properties using the American people and the news cycle to get free advertising for his monetary enterprises.
It is my belief he should play as much as humanly possible , at least if he is on the links the damage to our Country is minimalized.
I understand your logic----------but----------I suspect there isn't any basis to your logic. If you get my drift?
I have abandoned logic, since Nov. 2016 when it seemingly became extinct:). If you get my drift:)
Yes. 'Drifting' is definitely in vogue now, isn't it?
I don’t care how much golf ANY president plays and I said that about Obama. Presidents are on duty 24/7 no matter where they are.
Secondly with Obama I liked it because he wasn’t doing anything to destroy our Republic while he was golfing
Well you were apparently the only conservative who felt that way, every other pundit on the right I heard across the spectrum were practically red in the face with faux indignation over President Obama daring to play golf while on the job. There were right wing media groups tracking every game coming out with a new "Gotcha!" hit piece every time Obama teed up. Of course those same groups today completely ignore Trumps constant golfing, they never really cared, it was all just partisan warfare which is why they brush off the obvious hypocrisy as nothing but a tool in their arsenal, the ends justifying the means.
It’s ALWAYS partisan from left and right. That should not be news.
hypocrites are found left and right when it comes to politics
Except didn't Obama 'swing' from the left side? Ungodly, don't you think? I believe Marx did that too.
That made me chortle. I attended Catholic school ( before I reached the age of reason as one said ), in the 1st grade the nun tied my left arm to the chair in a failed attempt to subdue the evil appendage. Fortunately my thick Irish head won out over the insanity of the time.
All those Catholic school stories you have heard over the years are most likely true:)
Maybe because Trump is a better golfer.
Honestly, I think most presidents should play as much golf as possible.
And take Congress along, one way to minimize damage.
Trumps so good he won a tournament he didn't even compete in! Now that's something! Something any actual golfer would be horribly ashamed of, but not Mr. Trump! Driving on the green with his golf cart, claiming to have a 2 handicap, virtually every golfer he plays with says he's not bad, but cheats anyway to make himself seem better than he is, and claiming to win a championship he never even played in, that's the hero of the conservative right. I guess they were a match made in heaven, if heaven described that place of eternal fire where lies, deceit, dishonesty and hypocrisy reside.
Yeah, that's the world I guess. Barry Bonds cheated even though he was already the best player of his generation.
No. Cheating is cheating. Barry Bonds will go down in history as a cheater, as will Lance Armstrong and others who cheated even though they were already at the top of their professions.
Donald Trump isn't a pro golfer, he's not competing for money, most of his games have none but his sycophant caddie who doesn't just look the other way but actively participates in making sure Trump scores well, a guest, Donald and if you believe in that sort of thing, God. But still Trump has to cheat, he's so fucking sick in the head he lies even to himself about how great he is. He lives in a fantasy world where he believes himself the healthiest, best, tallest, strongest, most virile, wealthiest, best golfer, best dad, best businessman, best husband and best President, when the only thing he really is best at is lying. Lying to himself and everyone around him. He has convinced them all of his own invisible clothes and while the rest of us are sitting here saying "You're shitting me right? You can't see how naked that disgusting fat pig of a man-baby is?", his mesmerized drone followers all chant back in unison, "President Trump wears the finest clothing ever made... the cloth is made from unobtainisilk, his shoes of invincible leather, his suit jacket of fluid vibrainium wool... He is the best dressed man in the world...".
This isn't the way of the world, Trump is an anomaly. A sick, twisted perversion of humanity who exemplifies all the worst traits that most humans try to overcome. If he hadn't been born into massive wealth, Trump would have been a forgotten homeless half-wit sitting on a park bench talking to himself while trying to grab pigeon pussies or screaming profanities at passing children by now.
After reading the Mueller report I see many similarities between Trumps golf game and his campaign game. As pointed out in one recent book:
"(Rick) Reilly" "interviewed several of Trump's caddies for his book. "I asked them, 'Does the president cheat?' and they all said, 'No, he doesn't cheat, we cheat for him,'".
Imagine if you will, Happy Trumpmore in a golf championship against Shooter McClinton. Now everyone thought the long time professional Shooter McClinton was a lock, but the game that day wasn't a normal game of golf.
"First we had Happy Trumpmore's caddie, the aptly named Put'in. He doesn't speak much, not sure if he understands English, but he's carrying Trumps bags."
"Happy Trumpmore is certainly swinging for the fences today, off the first tee his ball disappeared off to the right with one of the strangest 'run up to the ball' shots, but strangely the caddie found the ball just inside the edge of the rough about 450 yards down the fairway. What a power hitter!"
"On the 10th tee Happy Trumpmore seems to hit one waaaaaaay into the "Hollywood Access" rough. But wait, what's this? They're telling us Trump's ball was found back in the fairway? Trump's caddie found the ball, it apparently bounced off the turtle shell of stolen DNC emails and ricocheted off a Weeping Wiki tree! Amazing luck!"
"It really has been interesting to watch this match today Dan, nearly every hole Happy Trumpmore has hit a strong but seemingly off target shot but they always seem to bounce back into playable territory, truly an amazing feat."
"We're coming down to the last few holes, Shooter McClinton is well in the lead, there's really no way for Happy Trumpmore to win this. Let's see how Shooter does teeing off at 18. Wow! What a shot! She laid it right up on the edge of the green in one! But wait, what's this? A Comeygator has erupted out of the pond nearby, run over and eaten Shooters ball? Oh no! That's going to be a stiff penalty!"
"Now Happy Trumpmore tees off on 18 and again, a wild running slapshot that looks like it's gone far left towards that Russian TV camera tower. What? We're being told the ball bounced off the tower onto the green and into the hole! That was literally the only way he could win! Insane! It could only be considered a miracle for all Happy Trumpmores fans!"
It's not that Trump always cheats, he expects those under him to cheat for him, make sure his ball is always in a playable lie, and if that doesn't work he has them just lie all the while maintaining his plausible deniability.
I do not, though I often enjoy their take on a lot of issues. There's nothing better than looking at something from a humorous or bizarre perspective to get one out of their box and looking at things through fresh eyes.
Never said it wasn't. Just observing that even good players do it.
If you have a comment on something I wrote, why don't you show some courage and address your thoughts to me directly.
As to your reaction to my comment, I will tell you that you are 100% wrong. I never excused cheating and I would not. As I had to explain to DP, all I was doing was observing that even the best performers will do it. For you to find otherwise in what I wrote, I believe, is dishonest and just part of your penchant for trying to smear the character of people you think you are supposed to disagree with. Frankly, I find this tendency of yours to be both dishonest and childish. And I had the spine to tell you directly.
Care to give any examples of golfers intentionally cheating other than Trump? Any amateur or professional golfers out there cheating nearly every single time they play to superficially inflate their score or lower their handicap?
"In baseball, as in most sports, bending the rules is acceptable. It's only if you flout them that you are disciplined.
In golf, honesty isn't merely the best policy, it's the only policy. Rules aren't meant to be bent, much less broken. Players are expected to call even the most minor infractions on themselves.
As Wojtowicz did in the finals of the Rhode Island Amateur.
It was 21 years ago, but I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was standing beside the green of the 12th hole at Wanumetonomy, a par-3 where Wojtowicz and his opponent, David Herzog, both were on in regulation.
Wojtowicz, who was one-down in the match, was lining up his birdie putt when he suddenly stepped away and announced he was hitting three.
No one knew why. No one had seen anything.
I had marked my ball and picked it up, Wojtowicz explained. I fixed my ball mark. Then I put my ball down again. When I put my putter down about a half-inch behind the ball, the ball moved. I don't think it moved two dimples, but it moved. It rocked, and it didn't rock back. I was stunned.
According to the rules of golf, if the ball moves once it is addressed by the player and does not return to its original position, the player must count a stroke.
I don't know if anybody else saw it, Wojtowicz said that day. But golf is a game where, if you see it happen, you have to call it on yourself. You have to play by the rules. If I hadn't, and somehow had turned the match around and won, I'd have had to live with that."
"Never drive the cart within hazard boundary lines, or within about 10 yards of water hazards or bunkers, or within about 50 yards of greens (unless you're on a designated cart path, of course). These areas are especially susceptible to damage by the wheels of golf carts. Never drive onto or close to tee boxes, either, unless on the cart path."
“Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots, but you have to play the ball where it lies.” - Bobby Jones
Trumps golf game reflects his life. He rejects the idea he could ever make a bad shot and refuses to play the ball where it lies. He cheats, makes excuses or lawyers up to move the ball so he always gets the "good break" and then he demands everyone applaud his luck. Every real golfer in the world who has seen trump play either openly or secretly despises Trump. They know him for what he is, a worthless cheating scumbag not worthy of washing their golf balls with his dirty mouth. And every sensible human living by the rules every day, not screwing people over, not cheating and stealing just cause no one is looking, despise the way Trump lives. The rest who think life is just about taking what they want regardless of how it hurts others, think of cheating as another tool to take more, and consider others as stepping stones that need to be stomped on to get ahead, love Trump and how he plays the game.
So while your flaccid defense of the scumbag in chief was expected, your argument doesn't contain even a single drop of logic.
Then don't lie about me, particularly to other people.
You really need that?
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Whoops! Wrong kind of cheating.
Uh What? That's some made up bull, right there. Are you trying to defend cheating now?
I didn't defend him. Defending him wasn't even on my mind. What did I write that makes you think I was defending him cheating at golf?
What argument are you talking about?
You want to talk about drops of logic? You could use a few. You're arguing with me about something I never even said, i.e. that cheating is ok.
Between the three of them my money is on Clinton.
He's a much better cheater than Trump or Obama
The left don't hate a golfing presidents, they only hate golfing presidents with an R behind their name.
After making any and every excuse for Obama's outings (golf and basketball) after bashing Bush Jr for golfing; the left have no room to criticize Trump.
There is this too which must be carefully considered, pertaining to the premise of this article.
In old testament scripture and the US Constitution, both of which are closely linked according to some, the game of golf is an Arian sport and thusly is not open to all.
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The premise of the article is slightly overblown all though just slightly. There is no doubt that many whites felt "threatened" by the first non-white presidency, but they also opposed Obama golfing because he was a "liberal".
They give trump a pass because he is Making America Hate Great Again!
Obama is biracial. Try again.