I've known people like that, but they were under age ten.
I picture this like Napoleon in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
I confess, I found that film lacking in whelm.
That's because young people don't appreciate classics.
And I'm being polite because it graced us with the gift of Keanu, these many sordid years later.
Anyway, Napoleon cheating transparently in a game against children seems about right as a parallel to Trump.
I actually remember nothing from that movie except that it had that comedian whose name I can't remember.
Jane Wiedlin, but she is a musician and not a comedian.
Maybe millennials will kill golf and we can re-purpose all the golf courses to build public housing.
They're trying to turn one nearby into a nature preserve.
I'm actually very suspicious of the story in the OP. In the interview he says that the story was published in Golf Magazine and there's a link to the article. But the article doesn't tell the story about Trump cheating by claiming the ball that didn't go in the lake.
The Atlantic goes off in the weeds about how Trump's behavior is hurting golf just as the sport was losing its plaid-trousered rich-asshole trappings
That article is written by the author of the book.
There's an earlier and fuller writeup of the book in a golf website (golf.com, no less) that might help: https://www.golf.com/news/features/2019/04/02/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/
I have seen this story repeated inserting the fact that the son was a ten-year-old kid -- even if the story is true, I have also seen tweets claiming that that bit is false, the son was a grown man. (Do I have links for either of those? No.) But if that comes up again, it's worth noting that the version in the OP doesn't claim that the son was a child.
there's a note at the bottom of the story, clarifying that originally the story misrepresented the son's age, and that it's been corrected.
16: Originally the Vox story said Ted Virtue's kid was 10 years-old. Then they posted a correction - his sons are both in their 20s.
17: I added value because I capitalized words.
14: I refuse to let people dictate a topic just because they wrote a whole book on that topic.
I somehow missed the name. Stealing from 'Virtue' is a bit on the nose.
I read somewhere that the guy's kids are much older than that.
10. Thus 23.
This whole line of inquiry is silly. He's a shit person, we all know that. People who support him find his defiance of convention entertaining, and, anyway, think the he's going to cheat the liberals/people of color in their favor, so why not.
The golf.com article doesn't say anything about Virtue's son being there -- https://www.golf.com/news/2019/03/10/president-trump-club-championship-did-not-enter/
That story in itself is a pretty good illustration of what a petty shithead he is -- but the way of such things is that people want to make the story even better, so they add more Trump cheating which probably happened but was a completely separate incident.
think the he's going to cheat the liberals/people of color in their favor, so why not.
But he's not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting!
I am drawn to the position that loss, and the ready surrender, to such a leering depravity indict the progressive affect, if not all its projects. I would like to be able to rehearse the old "structural" and "systemic" excuses, but contempt exhausts me.
26 is probably true, but by demographic and social traits, I suspect that every man (other than my father) who lectured me about fair play and good sportsmanship voted for Trump.
30: Fair play and sportsmanship are fine principles, but desperate measures are required to keep intruders off the field.
It will help me deflect conversation with my Trump-supporting, golf-loving dad when I go back home for summer, "he cheats at golf, enough said."
30: The Flip-Pater is in that aged-and-white demographic, but he was in town yesterday and we talked at length about Trump's foulness, the vacancy of his "winning" and his lying, isolating arguments for fear, if that helps.
Of course, he doesn't care about golf.
My extensive research indicates that since the beginning of the 20th century you have to play golf to get reelected President. The only Presidents that didn't golf were Hoover and Carter - both one-term Presidents.
36: You can't be including FDR, can you?
He said extensive, not exhaustive.
I'm thinking FDR compensated with yachting.
Various articles have identified FDR's yacht as a place of refuge from the handiwork of Eleanor's chosen, and violently terrible, White House cooks.
A private club, in other words.
Oh man. I read Hawaii the riot act yesterday for saying something about only swimming in private pools because public pools are full of gross people. Clearly she was repeating something she's heard other people say, and I acknowledged that, and tried to claim that I was just explaining other people's odious beliefs underpinning that statement and not hers, but she was still pretty stung by how hard I dug in.
One of the most avid golfers of all the Presidents! But yes, you're right, he didn't golf while he was President.
For pseudonymity reasons I will not say how close I am at this moment to FDR's yacht, but I'm pretty close.
45: Good on you. Not enough people around here livetweet their piracy. Enjoy the "Fresh Salt."
Liveblog? There's a verb we use, but I can't remember it.
45: I believe it's possible to visit but it is not wheelchair accessible/ADA compliant. Is my memory right?
48: That seems ironic but completely unsurprising for a boat dating from the 1940s.
They had a legal requirement that all stores selling or servicing wheel chairs be on the third or higher floor of a building without an elevator.
Which is why they used large boats to sell and service wheelchairs - the third floor was level with the ground, thus enabling people in wheelchairs easy access via a gangplank.
Looks like: "Wheelchair access is limited to the main deck, only, and the maximum width (outside of wheel to outside of wheel) is 25 inches."
I had to google how wide butts are to see if there was enough room for the wheels.
The internet is killing my willingness to look stuff up. I open the weather app to see if it is raining even if I'm in a room with a window.
That is, my willingness to look stuff up for myself.
I'm curious what would happen if someone pulled the same shit on Trump. Like all bullies, it's been extensively demonstrated that he can dish it but can't take it. If someone else kicked Trump's balls (the golf ones) or took free mulligans, would Trump sulk away? Cheat even more? The one thing I can't see is Trump actually confronting his opponent.
I think that's why he only golfs on his own courses.
What, so he'd expel the cheater? Maybe but certainly not face to face- he's probably drive off the course and send a security guard to kick the person out.
Maybe they would settle their differences in a high-stakes round of golf with Chevy Chase playing on the team of one and a racist caricature on the other's side.
IMDB says I'm getting my movies confused. Chevy Chase and a genie.