Trump Tries To Hide His Golfing With Absurd Southern White House Lie

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/31/trump-golf-southern-white-house.html

Posted on Tue, Dec 31st, 2019 by Jason Easley
Trump Tries To Hide His Golfing With Absurd Southern White House Lie


Trump went golfing while a US embassy was under attack and then lied while calling his private club the Southern White House.

Trump tweeted:

@realDonaldTrump
Very good meeting on the Middle East, the Military, and Trade. Heading back to The Southern White House (Mar-a-Lago!). Updates throughout the day.
11:51 AM · Dec 31, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

The president’s lie was a cover-up that defied common sense. If Trump needed to hold meetings with the military after the embassy attack, why did he go to a golf course? He could have held the meetings at his private club. A president doesn’t go to a golf course to hold vital meetings during an international crisis.

Trump went to his golf course to play golf.

The president knows that he isn’t doing his job and that most Americans will be outraged by him golfing as an American embassy was attacked.

Trump’s private club is not a Southern White House. It is not government property. His club is a for-profit entity. There is no “Southern White House.” It is a private club where Trump hangs out and bilks taxpayers out of millions of dollars.

Instead of protecting and serving his country, Donald Trump played golf while an embassy was under attack.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. The rump benghazi...

where was idiot rump when all of this crap was happening? On a f**king golf course, where else? Hypocrites. We need to have at least 8 House Committee meetings to investigate what in the hell was rump doing while this attack was happening to an American embassy...and have HRC chair each and every one of them.

[KSNY]

15. but Hillary did nothing wrong with Benghazi. This is more like "My Pet Goat"

-- the children's book George W Bush kept on reading while the twin towers and the Pentagon were under attack.
I hope that this brings him down though. Complete indifference to American lives under attack.

[BigmanPigman]

2. His cult doesn't care at all about any of this.

It is true. They simply do not care that he is golfing instead of attending to his POTUS duties and they don't care that all the money for these outings are tax payer funded and goes back into the moron's own bank account eventually. They should care but the reality is they don't. He can do no wrong in their eyes.

[babylonsister]

4. Not posting this nor I suspect is it written

for his cult. Maybe there's someone out there who might consider this the last straw. I can hope.

[Ahpook]

16. They'd be climbing the fucking walls if Obama did any of this

Hypocrites, every single last one of those POS.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. The Right went bananas when Obama even flew past Chicago.

Imagine if he had called Hawaii "The Western White House" and spent half his time playing golf there.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Let's hope the evening news highlights his dereliction of duty.

[Stuart G]

5. This is the one, that will bury this scum...

While the embassy was under attack,
Trump was looking for his golf ball,
And that says it all.

[erronis]

10. All I can envisage is trump's rump raised up with a brown leakage stain while looking for his ball

or as stormy said, it was hard to even find his mushroom.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. How true. Great Eisenhower quote. How far we have fallen. Seems irreparable.

[cwydro]

23. "This is the one."

Right.

Heard this SO many times.

[MyOwnPeace]

42. So right on that one!

Any wonder we are SO NUMB to each and every catastrophic and idiotic thing that happens with this mis-administration?

[XRubicon]

6. I was at the Rubber Ducky car wash today 11:30 to 12

It's on Southern blvd in west palm. The police were blocking all the cross roads, I did not see shitbirds limo but I did see ambulance and a bunch of SUV speeding by headed toward mar a shithole. So I assume he left golf around then.

Mar a shithole is a country club not a private mansion, it's not even a real hotel and has no golf course on site. He ain't that rich.

[Ligyron]

17. It was raining off and on all morning too.

I'm in Wellington but how different could the weather be 10 miles away, esp in winter? He wouldn't want to get wet, his hair would collapse or he might just turn green and melt like his crush the wicked witch. But by 1 the clouds were gone and clear skies all afternoon and the low 55 tonite, nice!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

26. I have family in that area.

They HATE it when he comes to town. Roads closed. Shops lose money. Traffic effed up all over the place. Choppers overhead. He COSTS the taxpayers of West Palm a lot of $$$$. And of course, he never makes any mention of all the loss of revenue to all the shop owners in the area.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. It was actually built in the 1920s and willed to the National Park Service

for use as a Winter White House. Oh the irony! NPS returned it to the trust because it was too expensive to keep it up. Congre An act of Congress in 1981 made it official.

It has 85 bedroomswso it could be a place that members could use to host guests or if a president were in residence, for hosting dignitaries. (like the big dog from China with the perfect chocolate cake)

[stillcool]

7. I don't think he's in the loop...

someone tells him what to say, and he says whatever he remembers and ad-libs from there.

[JDC]

21. I agree with this.

[brewens]

8. Putin has asked him to run everything he can there where the Russkies have it all wired. n/t

[tblue37]

9. He didn't stay long, so I assume some advisors--or maybe Lindsey Graham--warned him that he would

really take a nasty PR hit it he was caught golfing during an embassy attack.

That's the only thing that would cause him to cut short his golf game.

[TrollBuster9090]

11. The First Time Trump Went Golfing At Mar-A-Lago in Jan. 2017, Fux News Referred To It As...

..."The Winter White House." I wanted to throw a shoe at my TV.

Trump had actually referred to it as 'The Winter White House' before he was officially sworn in. He tweeted a picture of himself sitting at a desk with a blank pad of paper and a sharpie, claiming he was 'working on his inaugural address at the Winter White House.

I'm sure he and his half-wit followers like to think of him as a sort of Kublai Khan, with a 'winter palace' in Xanadu.

[cwydro]

24. Why in hell were you even watching Fox?

I’d throw a shoe too if I ever turned that crap on.

[LuvNewcastle]

25. Kublai Klan

There. Fixed it.

[calimary]

30. Why don't they just call it the Winter Palace?

Like the Russian czars did?

I think that’s what they called their digs in the Crimea.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

12. Imagine Faux News if Obama had done this.

it's just stunning. He is really a piece of work...…...

[jmowreader]

14. Bush II and Reagan are guilty of the same thing

They both called their spreads the Western White House.

This is just one of the privileges that accrues to Republican presidents.

Of course, if President Obama would have done this, the outrage would have blown the roof off the Fox News studios.

[SCVDem]

18. Fuck tRump!!!

That is all!

[warmfeet]

19. K and R.

The orange asshole is not the only one to blame here. His delusional, cultist followers, are every bit as much to blame.

I will never lift a single finger to help any of these assholes. They are all dead to me.

[smirkymonkey]

22. It's not a Southern White House. Fuck Him!

It's his private, for-profit, resort. He is such a disgusting, traitorous pig who is milking taxpayers for his own private profit. Why can't this be stopped? I don't understand why this is allowed.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. Check this out! history of Mar-a-Lago

Mar-a-Lago (/ˌmɑːrəˈlɑːɡoʊ/) is a resort and national historic landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.

At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property to the National Park Service, hoping it could be used for state visits or as a Winter White House, but because the costs of maintaining the property exceeded the funds provided by Post, and it was difficult to secure the facility (as it is located in the flight path of Palm Beach Airport), the property was returned to the Post Foundation by an Act of Congress in 1981.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago for more information. Interestingly, during the time it was in possession of NPS, Nixon did not use it because he preferred "The Florida White House" on Key Biscayne

As Charlie Pierce likes to say "History is so cool"

The first president to have a "summer White House" was Cleveland and it was on Cape Cod! I have a vague memory of other presidents having alternate "White Houses" located on their own property..

None of this negates the fact that #45 describing the place as the "Southern White House" cheapens the whole history of alternate "White Houses" attributed to past Presidents. (Probably it was started by the press, with Cleveland, you know )

[yellowdogintexas]

29. followup found a wiki about all the homes and secondary homes

This is some fun reading, with lots of little tidbits.

It seems the press did create the nicknames for the alternate residences of the various presidents (like FDR's "Little White House" in Warm Springs GA for example)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_residences_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

I repeat, #45 cheapens the whole concept maybe because he was harping on about Mar a Lago being the "Southern White House" as if he thought it up and no one else had ever had an alternative"White House"

The irony of its original owner intending for the place to be a second Presidential residence is just incredible. She is probably rolling in her grave.

[lame54]

28. The Alt-Whitehouse

[oasis]

31. This is the guy who complained about Obama golfing too much. nt

[OldBaldy1701E]

32. Hmm...

I was in Key West not too long ago and I saw The 'Southern White House', and Trump's name was nowhere on it... funny.

[yellowdogintexas]

38. That may have been President Truman's

I know he had one in Florida (thanks to those cool Wiki articles I read last night)
Nixon had one in Key Biscayne, which the press referred to as the "Florida White House"

[MyOwnPeace]

44. Yes, indeed! It WAS Truman's!

Yes, indeed, he DID go to Key West to get away from the SOB's in Washington (his words, honest!).
Great reading..............

https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/

[Vinca]

33. Guess the meeting was on the 9th hole.

[DesertRat]

34. Busted

Link to tweet

[usaf-vet]

35. HAPPY 2020!

[LuvLoogie]

36. Yeah, and his toilet is the Oval Office

Fuck him and his armed, racist shit heads.

[dlk]

37. Trump hasn't put in a day's work since taking office

He’s far too lazy. This latest horror reminds me of Nero fiddling while Rome burned. We can all wonder who’s actually been at the helm while Trump is busy making America great again.

[czarjak]

40. The Nuclear Codes...

The Nuclear Codes!

[Dennis Donovan]

41. *This* is the Southern WH - in Warm Springs, GA

One has to be a REAL POTUS to claim any of their properties as an auxiliary WH. Trump is a fraud, therefore, Mar-a-Lago is simply another home in Palm Beach.

[Mc Mike]

43. 'Hezbollah in Iraq? Get the hell away from me, can't you see I'm playing through? Fore!'