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Cont: President Trump: Part 3

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He is milking this gig for all it's worth.

For the eighth weekend in a row, President Trump has visited a property that bears his name. He has done so on 21 of the 66 days he has been in office, meaning that for the equivalent of three full weeks of his just-over-nine weeks as commander in chief, he has spent all or part of a day at a Trump property — earning that property mentions in the media and the ability to tell potential clients that they might be able to interact with the president. And, despite his insistence on the campaign trail that he would avoid the links — “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” he said in August — he has made 13 visits to his own golf courses since becoming president, likely playing golf on at least 12 of those occasions.
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Is he at least good at golf? I've never read any assessment of his skills at the game. At the very least I hope he's good at it, after all this time and money spent.
 
BobTheCoward said:
It doesn't say who the bill was meant to be paid to.

Even if it said US, the point still stands. Germans should be ashamed of themselves.
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Why should the Germans be ashamed? Seriously, why? What you and I think what they should spend on their military is irrelevant. What is shameful is the grotesque amount WE SPEND.
 
acbytesla said:
Why should the Germans be ashamed? Seriously, why? What you and I think what they should spend on their military is irrelevant. What is shameful is the grotesque amount WE SPEND.
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Failure to live up to national obligations is a shame.

If I'm not mistaken, the US doesn't live up to its obligations to the U.N. That's a shame, too.
 
newyorkguy said:
You could add, Unemployment Insurance. As Newt Gingrich says, "Why is the government paying people not to work?"
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Good question - why did the government pay the salaries of GOP congressmen for the last seven years?
 
And Daddy is still going to be in on the goings on at his businesses.

“There is kind of a clear separation of church and state that we maintain, and I am deadly serious about that exercise,” he says, echoing previous statements from his father. “I do not talk about the government with him, and he does not talk about the business with us. That’s kind of a steadfast pact we made, and it’s something that we honor.”

But less than two minutes later, he concedes that he will continue to update his father on the business while he is in the presidency. “Yeah, on the bottom line, profitability reports and stuff like that, but you know, that’s about it.” How often will those reports be, every quarter? “Depending, yeah, depending.” Could be more, could be less? “Yeah, probably quarterly.” One thing is clear: “My father and I are very close,” Eric Trump says. “I talk to him a lot. We’re pretty inseparable.”
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Skeptic Ginger said:
:rolleyes:

Are you equally ashamed the US wasted trillions invading Iraq?
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Extremely.

You know the line in sweet home Alabama "Watergate does not bother me, does your conscience bother you?"

Yes! Absolutely! I wasn't even alive for it, I personally reject most notions of society and government, and I am deeply ashamed by Watergate.
 
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phiwum said:
Failure to live up to national obligations is a shame.

If I'm not mistaken, the US doesn't live up to its obligations to the U.N. That's a shame, too.
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Comittments are not permanent. I think it is fair for ANY nation to evaluate and change them as they see fit. I don't think it is wrong for the United States to decide to reduce what we spend on NATO.
 
newyorkguy said:
In early March, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, the local newspaper, reported in the first 31 days of the Trump presidency:


This doesn't surprise me. Trump is just about as big a phony as you're ever going to see on the national stage. Wait until this summer. Have you ever been in DC in July? :(
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I hate Trump, but I can't blame anybody for spending as little time in DC in the Summer.......
 
Stacko said:
He cheats.
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And there are many sources that confirm they have seen him cheating, and they are not anonymous.

Does Donald Trump cheat at golf? A Washington Post investigation.
One morning in the mid-1990s, Mark Mulvoy was on the sixth hole of Long Island’s Garden City Golf Club with Donald Trump when the skies opened, and they ducked for cover under a nearby awning. The rain let up a few moments later, and Mulvoy, then the managing editor of Sports Illustrated, returned to the green. When he got there, he found a ball 10 feet from the pin that he didn’t remember seeing before the storm.

“Who the hell’s ball is this?” he said.

“That’s me,” the real estate mogul said, according to Mulvoy.

“Donald, give me a [redacted] break,” Mulvoy recalls telling him. “You’ve been hacking away in the . . . weeds all day. You do not lie there.”

“Ahh, the guys I play with cheat all the time,” he recalls Trump replying. “I have to cheat just to keep up with them.”...

Reilly told The Washington Post about an afternoon when Trump wrote down scores he didn’t actually achieve on his scorecard, conceded putts to himself by raking the ball into the hole with his putter rather than striking it properly (“He rakes like my gardener!”), and even called a gimme — something a player might claim for a two-foot putt — on what should have been a chip shot.
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acbytesla said:
So, you agree with me that we should reduce American military spending?
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Absolutely. I believe the entire US budget should be supported by fees and voluntary systems such as lotteries (without laws restricting who can have lotteries).

Also, we should withdraw from NATO.
 
BobTheCoward said:
Absolutely. I believe the entire US budget should be supported by fees and voluntary systems such as lotteries (without laws restricting who can have lotteries).

Also, we should withdraw from NATO.
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Trump proposed raising the military budget by 60 billion dollars. How can you support him?
 
acbytesla said:
Comittments are not permanent. I think it is fair for ANY nation to evaluate and change them as they see fit. I don't think it is wrong for the United States to decide to reduce what we spend on NATO.
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Then, similarly, it is in principle to decide not to defend other allies. It might not be prudent, but it would be not wrong by your own claim.
 
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