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BREAKING: Donald Trump Played Golf This Weekend

Kevin Drum Mar. 26, 2017 8:26 PM

The sad thing about this tweet is that it really would be news if Donald Trump was at the White House working this weekend:

News Alert: @POTUS spending weekend working at the White House.

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— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 26, 2017

But no: Trump played golf at his club in Virginia this weekend, so it's not clear what Fox was up to here. Perhaps they meant to say that by 5:26 pm on Sunday, Trump was back in the White House.

Normally, I'd suggest that everyone cool it with the golf snark. We've now had four consecutive presidents who have taken endless grief every time they hit the links, and it's pretty stupid. Let 'em golf if they want to. But there are two differences with Trump. First, the guy really does play a ton of golf. You'd think the first few months of a new presidency would be a busy time, but Trump has played 12 rounds of golf, mostly at Mar-a-Lago, in only ten weekends. That's more than he played before he was president. Second, like an embarrassed drunk, he's now trying to hide his golf addiction This weekend marked the second in a row in which his press office tried to pretend that Trump was "meeting with people" at the club, only to have Trump's golfing exposed, as they must have known it would be, by someone with a cell phone tweeting out pictures. Why do they bother with such flimsy and easily exposed lies?

MORE - http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/breaking-donald-trump-played-golf-weekend