Michael Robles, voice over
Written: Marissa Payne
Video courtesy of: @mikenfrank
June 23, 2017 at 2:40 p.m. PDT
President Trump angered golf fans this week when a video emerged of him doing what they consider the unthinkable — he drove his golf cart all over a green at the golf club where the women’s U.S. Open will be held next month.
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It must be noted the name of the course in Bedminster, N.J., is Trump National Golf Club, so it’s not like Trump was committing golf’s biggest sin on just anybody’s course, but for some fans, that he owned the place doesn’t matter.
What’s the opposite of a golf clap? These tweets.
It’s unclear whether Trump knew he was violating one of the unwritten (and actually, most of the time it is written down) rules of the game when he took to the course the weekend of June 9. But if he did realize his faux pas, he didn’t acknowledge it to the golf club patrons who caught him on tape.
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