This Enraging Golf Story Tells You Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump
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The headline from this Golf.com story is: “President Trump won a 2018 club championship — without actually playing in it!” It should be: “Our president is a giant cheating narcissist, part 2,352,789.”
The story is actually pretty simple. At Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, there’s a plaque on Trump’s locker declaring him the 2018 men’s club champion. Golf.com’s Michael Bamberger, curious as to how this happened while Trump was president, and how Trump managed to win at age 72 without even a mention in the news media, discovered the following:
1. The club championship was actually won by a guy named Ted Virtue—an objectively hilarious golf name. Virtue is a CEO at an investment firm and a solid athlete, and he won the tournament without competing against Trump, who wasn’t competing because, we’ll remind you, he’s president.