Trump 39: The Return of the Wall

[onekidanddone]

32 minutes ago, thoughtful said:

Only the BEST parts.

Yea, all the smiting, hell fire and stuff.  None of that love thy neighbor or feed the hungry stranger. Pffft Jesus was a socialist sissy.

Disclaimer:  Jesus sir, I don't really think you were a sissy.

[smittykins]

Not to mention a brown person.

[Destiny]

Wait. Why the HELL would you want the President of the USA to autograph your Bible? That seems more than mildly sacrilegious to me, separate from my distaste of the man. WHERE ARE HIS ADULTS?

[apple1]

1 hour ago, Destiny said:

Wait. Why the HELL would you want the President of the USA to autograph your Bible? That seems more than mildly sacrilegious to me, separate from my distaste of the man. WHERE ARE HIS ADULTS?

Very offensive.

[47of74]

After hearing about fuck head signing bibles I'm about to the burn it all the fuck down point when it comes to Christianity.  I think I'm going to say that I'm no longer a Christian but am instead an Episcopalian and leave it at that.  I think there's a world of difference between the two.  

[Dandruff]

2 hours ago, 47of74 said:

After hearing about fuck head signing bibles I'm about to the burn it all the fuck down point when it comes to Christianity.  I think I'm going to say that I'm no longer a Christian but am instead an Episcopalian and leave it at that.  I think there's a world of difference between the two.  

I wonder what Pence thinks about the latest shenanigans.  Would he dare speak up?

[AmazonGrace]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/08/all-the-legal-trouble-in-trumpworld-scandals-trump/

Not sure it's all.

[AmazonGrace]

He signed the covers so he didn't break his record of seventy odd years of never opening a Bible 

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Notice they photographed the holy books with a dirty car and a bag of Cheetos

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Is that his natural hair color

Before going gray and bald I mean

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[formergothardite]

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already questioning the depth of Trump’s commitment to them.

He has no commitment to them. None. He has no commitment to anyone but himself and the people who he owes money, time for the world to accept this and act accordingly. 

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How is he so bad at standing and did he buy pants meant for someone who is 6ft 3?

[47of74]

8 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

Yeah thank you very much fuckhead.  If we didn't have such a fuckhead in the White House maybe we could've avoided this.  Of course it's only a few bucks and is easy to apply for, but, still, ugh.

3 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

How is he so bad at standing and did he buy pants meant for someone who is 6ft 3?

And of course the fuckhead set will say that he's being a mighty leader or some such.

And not everyone approves of Fuckhead signing bibles

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While some religious leaders are upset that President Donald Trump signed Bibles at an Alabama church, others say he was doing what he could to raise the spirits of tornado survivors.

The Rev. Donnie Anderson is executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches. She says she was offended by the way Trump scrawled his signature as he autographed other things and posed for photos.

 

[thoughtful]

14 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

How is he so bad at standing and did he buy pants meant for someone who is 6ft 3?

Spoiler

 

[Howl]

To celebrate Trump's umpteeth visit to Florida and Mar-a-Loco since inauguration,  I'll leave this here and also note that I keep thinking, "Can there actually be more scandals?" And then somebody kicks over a rock and BOOM! another damn scandal.  WE CAN'T KEEP UP. 

Which reminds me. A Chinese madam enslaving and trafficing women is selling influence and whatever else at Mar-a-Loco. I firmly believe that at some point in the future, it will be revealed that Trump has been getting sex on the side at Mar-a-Loco all along and maybe Bedminster. It's not just about golf, you know. 

and this: 

 

[Dandruff]

@HowlWonder if the trade war with China is affecting business...or vice versa.

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[thoughtful]

Trump learning from something he experienced?

When pigs fly.

[GreyhoundFan]

"President Trump won a 2018 club championship — without actually playing in it!"

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Donald Trump takes great pride in his golf game. Shinzo Abe and Tiger Woods and countless others can tell you about that. He once tweeted “I don’t cheat at golf” but added that Samuel L. Jackson does and “with his game he has no choice.” The president’s official USGA handicap index is listed as 2.8, though he seldom posts scores. Any visitor to the ornate men’s locker room at his club here, Trump International Golf Club, can see small rectangular brass plaques on his locker, recognizing him as the 1999, 2001 and 2009 club champion, and the 2012 and 2013 senior champion.

And now there’s a new plaque on his locker, screwed into its stained wood with two small Phillips head screws, to commemorate his latest title. It reads:

2018
MEN’S CLUB CHAMPION

Yes, Trump was president of the United States for all of 2018.

Yes, Trump turned 72 last year, which would be an impressive age to win even a senior club championship.

But there the plaque is, identifying Trump as the reigning club champion at his spectacular Trump International course.

His most recent win brings Trump’s club-championship haul — all won at clubs bearing his name — to an even 20. That includes senior and super-senior titles, too.

But to be precise about it, the plaque on his locker is two letters short of accurate. Trump is not actually the men’s champion at the club. He’s the co-champion. While that distinction is not found on his locker, it is made elsewhere at the club.

As for Trump’s path to No. 20, it was not conventional.

Originally, a man named Ted Virtue, the 58-year-old CEO of a New York investment firm called MidOcean Partners, had the 2018 club championship title all to himself.

Virtue, a member of Winged Foot and Westchester Country Club in New York and Lost Tree and Trump International in South Florida, won a series of matches en route to his title. He played football and basketball at Middlebury College in Vermont in the early 1980s and his golf is more athletic than poetic. His index is listed as 3.3 and his 20 most recent scores, all from 2018 and this year, range from 73 to 83. Trump has posted only two scores since 2016.

After Virtue won the championship, Trump ran into him at the club, according to multiple sources who recounted the story. Having some fun with him, Trump said something like, “The only reason you won is because I couldn’t play.” The president cited the demands of his job, although he was able to make 20 visits to the club in 2018, according to trumpgolfcount.com. Trump then proposed a nine-hole challenge match to Virtue, winner-takes-the-title.

You could say there wasn’t much in it for Virtue, and you could argue that this is not how these matters are typically, if ever, settled. But consider these factors:

1. Trump owns the course;

2. Trump is the president of the United States;

3. Trump is not your typical golfer.

Virtue said yes.

They played match play (each hole as its own contest) and straight up (no shots were given). As in nearly all amateur golf rounds, no rules official was on hand. Golf’s tradition calls for players to police themselves and, if necessary, one another.

Trump won.

In victory a magnanimous Trump said to Virtue something like, “This isn’t fair — we’ll be co-champions.”

The crowning of co-champions in golf is rare, but it does happen, at every level. In the 1949 Motor City Open, Lloyd Mangrum and Cary Middlecoff each shot 273 for 72 holes and then matched scores for 11 straight sudden-death playoff holes, playing through sunset. They were declared co-champions.

And that is how Trump and Virtue are reportedly listed on a large club-championship plaque on a clubhouse wall, as co-champions. That would mean Trump’s name is now on that plaque four times. Or five, if you include the appearance of his surname on the gold crest at its top.

Several club employees said they were not allowed to discuss club matters. Eric Trump, who runs the Trump golf-course empire for his father, did not respond to messages. Neither did Virtue.

Regardless of the outcome of that short match, 2018 was a good year for Virtue. A movie he helped get made, Green Book, was released, and on Feb. 24 it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Virtue, tall and tanned, was standing on the stage when the movie’s director, Peter Farrelly, hoisted the bronze statuette at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.

Virtue’s co-champion, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was otherwise occupied that night, as the host of the Governors Ball at the White House.

There was no immediate word on the president’s plans, if any, to defend the championship he co-owns.

 

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[smittykins]

OT, but I like “Mar-A-Loco.”(Otherwise, I get it mixed up with the casino down the road from me, which is called del Lago.)