JD Vance was the architect of an agonising game of cat and mouse between a golf ball and a hole this week at his boss Donald Trump’s Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland. The vice president followed in Trump’s footsteps after he, too, played a round at the course just a few days before, and while his round garnered its fair share of critics, he was spared the ignominy of chasing the ball around the green on camera. Vance was seen on camera in a tough-to-watch four-putt, knocking the ball short after first reaching the green before overshooting with his second, looking visibly frustrated, leaning back, and looking to the sky. He then fell short again with his third and finally picked up the ball. It’s not the first time his trip to the U.K. has been filled with frustration, though. A Popb–ch newsletter Thursday reported that a pub, The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, had turned Vance down weeks after it had hosted Kamala Harris, when staff threatened a mutiny over his dinner reservation. The VP’s trip to the southwest of England was also harpooned by chubby face memes and protests organized by the Stop Trump Coalition, while locals in the Cotswolds were left irritated by his 19-strong motorcade and supporting helicopter, which brought disquiet to the quintessentially English landscape and led the host of his holiday apartment to issue an apology to residents for the “circus.”
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