Golf Says Everything About Trump
You sent me a clip yesterday, I think it was from 2018 about him cheating at golf and where I think he had won the club championship that he actually didn’t play, right? And while that seems like, you know, Kim Jong-un level of insanity, why does Trump cheating at golf bother you? Why is that a big deal? Well, it’s a it’s a very interesting window on to him as a person and and people who don’t follow golf have no feel for this, right? I mean, golf is is as far as I know a a total outlier with respect to the norms of the sport. I mean, so you take like one extreme is you’ve got soccer where people pretend to have been fouled and they they fall down the soccer players fall down on the ground and flop around in agony and then the moment the foul isn’t called, you know, in their favor, they just jump back up and they’re fine, right? And it’s it’s just this bizarre, really shameful performance, but the norms of soccer have just you just relaxed and relaxed and relaxed to the point where everyone accepts that it’s just part of the game. or you know in in in hockey you know you can just begin you know punching somebody in the face you know seemingly violating the rules of the of the sport but everyone accepts it as like this is sort of the sport now you somebody gets to punch somebody in the face um golf is in a different universe right if if t when Tiger Woods won the Masters which is a you know the most prestigious event in in the US at least uh if he had misreported his score or if he had failed to even sign his scorecard he would have been immediately disqualified. He would have lost the Masters, right? The second place finisher would have won the Masters. It’s impossible to even understand that in relation to other sports. I mean, it’s like, you know, it’s like Tom Brady, you know, forgetting to sign a piece of paper after winning the the the Super Bowl and they lose the Super Bowl, right? It’s just how would anyone even think that should be, you know, within the realm of possibility? That is golf. Golf is just a religion of personal integrity, really. I mean, it’s just it it is a um so so the idea that you would cheat at it. So, two things. One is that it it is central to Trump’s life. He spends 30% of his time on the golf course, right? As president, he has done that. And he spends more time just hanging out at his own golf courses to to at great expense to the US taxpayer. I mean, they they charge millions of dollars to they go directly into to Trump properties uh for all these trips to his golf courses. But golf is the center of his life and he cheats at it in ways that should be impossible. I mean, he’s he cheats at it in in just the over the course of play. I mean, you can see this the footage of his caddy just dropping a ball, you know, where where he lost the ball in the water or it was ball went into the sand trap and the caddy will just drop a ball, you know, to give him a more favorable lie. Um, but then there are all these other stories of him pretending to have won tournaments that didn’t even exist. like he’ll buy a golf course and play around by himself uh and call that the first, you know, CH club championship that he’s now the winner of and put a plaque on the wall, right? Or he’ll in in the ca in the story you you heard, he um there was a tournament he didn’t even enter, right, where a guy won it and then he sees the guy on the golf course, you know, after the tournament and says, you know, you didn’t really win that tournament, but um because I I didn’t play in it, so let’s do a little playoff right now. and the guy’s playing with his son and he doesn’t want to but then Trump says no no no we’re doing a playoff right now and he does a playoff with him where you know Trump hits a ball into the lake but you know pretends it didn’t hit it into the lake pretends the sun hit it into the lake um steals the sun’s ball on the green I mean this all been reported by a guy who wrote a book it’s worse it’s it’s worse it’s not the it’s not that he steals it his handlers do it it’s it’s it’s a whole it’s the machinery like they already know what to do that’s the problem yeah but no but the but the truly egregious thing is he’s the sort person for whom golf really is at the center of his life. I mean, he’s he is he cares about it. He loves it. I mean, it’s clearly what he wants his life to be. 30% golf at least. And yet, he is violating its norms in a way that not one in a million golfers, if given the chance, would ever do. I mean, it’s the most shameful desecration of the actual norms of the sport that you can imagine. Pretending to have won, still literally stealing the title of a club championship from its rightful winner by lying, right, and putting your name on the wall attesting to your victory. I mean, it’s it’s I mean, to call it sociopathic doesn’t even quite get at it. I mean, there’s really it is the most bizarre. It’s it’s among it’s it’s it’s so far out on the tail end of aberration of human behavior again given that given the the relevant you know cultural norms surrounding the whole project. It’s just it’s almost uninterpretable. I mean you literally you have never met anyone who has ever met anyone who would behave this way and this guy is president of the United States. Right. Plus with golf um as anyone who plays you know you’re playing the course. So it’s really about your own personal best. So when you when you lie, you’re not just you’re not cheating somebody else. You’re actually completely missing the entire point of the game. Oh yeah. You know, it’s like cheating at prayer or something. I mean, it’s just it’s it’s insane. It’s it’s just it’s morally it’s not saying it’s not insane in the sense of being psychotic, delusional, but it is morally insane. I mean, this is my point about it’s always been my point about Trump. There are people you can point to who are much worse people, right? Right. I mean, they’re they they’ve created they’ve created many more overt harms and intended to create those harms. I mean, just like, you know, prototypically evil people, they are easier to understand in some sense than Trump. I mean, his psychology is just, frankly, bizarre.
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25 Comments
Stupid Sam never talks about hoe much Trump works
Billionaires don’t care
Soccer disrespect will not be tolerated
Perhaps more baffling – or infuriating – is that the majority of the golfing community supports Trump.
Sam's Derangement Continues.
Melania is impressed by good golf scores, and her approval means the world to Donald. It's just that simple.
Cheating and lying is his nature but how gullible you have to be to fall for all of that.😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣 NEVER heard Sam this animated about anything. Sam confirmed for a 2x weekly golfer. I didn't know I could like him any more ❤️
Diving in soccer is based in culture / country not the game itself. No one dives when playing soccer in some countries but they do it all the time in other countries.
Ego is the enemy.
Snooker is another game for gentlemen. Top players call fouls against themselves that no one else even suspect.
I’m sure Trump has a lackey like Mr Smithers ..
Trump‘s motto in life is:
“You would be a fool not to.”
He doesn’t look to gain expertise, or to strive for excellence, rather he looks to have plausible deniability.
I didn't know that about golf. I've always thought it was just boring.
Simple rules of life:
the exception, the exemption, the technicality, the provision, the clause, the workaround, the escape hatch, the backdoor, the gray area, the exploit, the delay, the dodge, the hack, the end run, the sneak-through, the backdoor, the cheat code, the wiggle room, the skate-around, the get-out clause
And his sycophants love him. I suspect there's a level of "I wish I could just make 💩 up and have people believe it".
🙄
Golf is a sport with honor. Honor to self-police. trump has none.
FFS. Unless you know something or have something that will remove trump from office, it would be much more productive substituting a) all this time & energy that you put into complaining about trump & analysing trumps golf behaviour for b) finding a decent democratic candidate.
In terms of productivity, I honestly think that if every person who spent more then 5 minutes criticising trump had done something else, something as easy as plant a tree, for example, the world would currently be a better place. People keep complaining about trump, & in doing so achieve absolutely nothing.
I mean what's next? We think trump is unfit for office, & in another attempt to explain to you why trump is unfit for office, lets take a deep dive into his choice of makeup. Makeup says everything about trump. Meanwhile, trump simply continues to be the president of the United States.
In golf one is supposed to call fouls on oneself, especially when no one else sees it.
Trump doesn't play golf. He's playing something else. It's like a nerf golf.
Let's put this in the clearest manner possible: If Donald Trump couldn't cheat, he wouldn't play. And that applies to any and every aspect of his life.
When it comes to golf, there's a reason why his fellow players call him "Pele."
Golf reveals and magnifies one’s character, ‘s all…..
Stfu sam you 🤡
He is so bad at golf. I've played my entire life. I've had a 7 handicap. His swing is complete beginner shit. It's sad. He obviously never had good lessons or wouldn't listen.
5:25 check the moment of prayer at, if memory serves, the re-opening of the Notre Dame in Paris. The evil toddler actually deliberately opened eyes and smiled to show how he fooled God……like a true four year old.