Heading into the weekend’s Bedminster Senior Club Championship, author Rick Reilly placed the odds of someone other than Donald Trump winning at 500,000-1.
Trump was a lock in Reilly’s book, not because the president is good at golf, but because the author insists that Trump cheats at golf.
He even wrote a book about it titled, “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.”
And, well … there is no evidence that Trump cheated, but he did, in fact, win at his own club once more. The White House shared the scorecard from Bedminster showing that the president finished atop the field with a gross score of 69.
It continues an impressive streak — provided the naysayers are not correct about the president fudging things out there — of winning his own club titles for the president.
Reilly wasn’t buying it, though.
“So a chubby 79-year-old with the yips whose caddies have to throw it out of bunkers and rough just shot a 69 to win by 10?” he wrote on X. “Sure.”
Heading into the weekend, Riley posted on X, “Hey Trump, Tomorrow is the Senior Champ at Bedminster. Are you shameless enough to pretend you won it? Even after the whole planet saw you cheat in Scotland? Is your ego that sick?”
Reilly returned to that post on Saturday and wrote, “Guess we got our answer. What a child.”
Reilly later shared a video on X that reportedly shows Trump’s caddy dropping a ball on the course for him at Bedminster during the tournament.
“So you know, it’s NEVER legal for your caddy to drop a ball,” Reilly wrote. “YOU can drop one, but never on a green. And since this was a full-score event, it’s not legal for Trump to drag the ball into the hole. No, no, never. Our president is a (expletive) golf cheat.”
He also shared another photo of the scorecard shared by the White House and wrote, “The 4 guys in Trump’s group finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th. Trump has a magic pencil.”
It was not just Reilly going after Trump, and you can see plenty of folks claiming the president was being less than honest out there in the comments under the White House’s X post below.
All of this came just a week after Trump was accused of cheating at golf while in Scotland.
Video reportedly of the president playing at his Turnberry Course appeared to show his caddy walking ahead of him, leaning down, and dropping a ball before continued to walk on.
Was it cheating? Well, folks on social media seem to think the clip catches the president in the act.
“Trump caught cheating at golf,” Molly Ploofkins wrote on X along with the clip. “Watch the guy in the red vest toss a ball behind him.”
Reilly reshared that post and wrote, “Well I’m just personally very disappointed in him.”
Another person shared the clip and wrote, “There was a thing in Rick Reilly’s book that said his dad heard Trump say he had lower handicap than Jack Nicklaus.”
Reilly responded to that, “that’s right. Jack’s handicap is 10 now and Trump continues to fluff up his BS handy to a 2.8, even though he hasn’t reported a score in years. Everybody from Tiger to Annikah to DJ to Ernie Els to Brad Faxon say he’s about ‘a 10 or 11.’ That doesn’t win club championships.”
The Meidas Touch account shared the video and just wrote, “Busted.”
“Amazing how Trump’s ball he hit into the deep rough just magically pops out of his caddie’s pocket and they all just play it off like Trump just hit it there,” Ron Filipkowski wrote on X. “29 time Club Champion!”
There are plenty more posts like that on X so it will be interesting to see if Trump has an explanation.
HuffPost reported that the current trip to Scotland is not related to a planned visit to the United Kingdom in September, “making it by far the most expensive golf vacation” for Trump in either of his terms.
“He’s using the presidency to market his golf courses,” Richard Painter, the top ethics lawyer in George W. Bush’s second-term Whtie House told HuffPost. “At the taxpayer’s expense, he’s promoting himself.”
“We’ve reached a point where the Oval Office is an extension of the Trump Organization, and American taxpayers are footing the bill,” Jordan Libowitz, of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, in Washington, told HuffPost. “A president should not be spending time trying to make money in a foreign country while in office, but if they do, at the very least they could pick up the tab for their business trips.”
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