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All Americans should resent Trump’s excessive golf costs
Washington Examiner ^ | May 23, 2019 | Quin Hillyer

Posted on 05/24/2019 11:06:18 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas

...As a conservative, I hope other conservatives join me in complaining about Trump’s golf costs.

And I make the same complaint as an avid golfer.

The problem isn’t that Trump likes golf, or that he finds at least some time to play it. Rogan is right that presidents need relief from the stresses of the job, and golf is a salutary diversion. And the problem isn’t that presidential golf costs more than golf by anybody else, because of course security and other considerations make it so by necessity.

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The president is not a potentate. The presidency does not carry with it the right to self-absorbed excess. If any other public official — the speaker of the House, for example, or the chief justice of the United States — were billing taxpayers to pay for him to fly across the country, frequently, on a whim, to play golf at some exotic locale, there would be official investigations into potentially criminal misuse of government funds.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; fakenews; golf; golferinchief; mediabias; moron; opinion; quinhillyer; rino; tds; trump; whitehouse
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To: 43north

Trump loves America and that is why he stepped up to serve his country. If he wanted to play golf for the rest of his life he could have. The presidency is a calling.God Bless PDJT. And thank you.


61 posted on 05/25/2019 5:14:59 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Oscar in Batangas

I never begrudged Pres. OBama his golf...ever. The number of vacation trips and places ? yeah....but not the golf part.

Pres. Trump goes “home” and plays golf. He does have homes in places where the Obamas would vacation so the comparison isn’t fair.
He goes home and also works on his days off.

God doesn’t subtract from your time on earth, the time spent on the golf course, so by all means...one and all...go play golf.


62 posted on 05/25/2019 5:31:08 AM PDT by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

I can recall the left bashing Bush over golf. Then the right over Obama.

Honestly, the job is stressful and a lot of work is performed while playing golf. I have no problem with it, regardless of which party the POTUS is from.


63 posted on 05/25/2019 5:41:50 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: 43north

Actually, it was preferred by me anyway. The less that man was in the Oval Office the better.


64 posted on 05/25/2019 5:42:45 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

“All Americans should resent Trump’s excessive golf costs”

I hear that in Venezuela they are free. Move there you commie.


65 posted on 05/25/2019 5:46:22 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: onyx

If you have an email address for this moron, please post it.


66 posted on 05/25/2019 5:49:17 AM PDT by democratsaremyenemy (Streepisacreep)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

#FakeNews


67 posted on 05/25/2019 5:55:10 AM PDT by Lopeover (We Are #TRUMPSTRONG)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

All Americans should resent the absurd, petty, relentless sniping at the president from the media.


68 posted on 05/25/2019 5:57:47 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Woodrow Wilson, who played an estimated, 1,200 rounds of golf while in office from 1913-21.


Probably didn’t play too many rounds from 1919–21, during Edith Wilson’s Presidency.


69 posted on 05/25/2019 6:03:12 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: conservative98

quin is a nutjob loser. I bet his cats use him as a litter box while he sleeps. This nitwit is beyond contempt with his idiocy. He conveniently overlooks the fact that President Trump takes no salary. President Trump is working harder than any President in my lifetime...70+ years. President Trump is accomplishing so much while being constantly attacked by every idiot wretch who can type on the internet, LIB losers, DIMwits...and many in his own party. Let it rest, quin...you ARE an idiot.


70 posted on 05/25/2019 6:24:15 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: conservative98

Oh a poofer? Will the malignant faggotry ever end?


71 posted on 05/25/2019 6:30:11 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: conservative98

Yup.


72 posted on 05/25/2019 7:02:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Trump owns the golf course.

How much was spent on Barry’s daily golf outings? How much did Mr. Quim write about it?


73 posted on 05/25/2019 7:10:19 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: euram

And don’t forget that time (or was it times?) that they flew the presidential family DOG to Massachusetts on its own plane

on OUR own dime!


74 posted on 05/25/2019 7:30:20 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (Jan. 20, 2017, 12:00 PM: The End of an ERROR)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

So this may not be popular here but the government overall spends too much money. We should determine a budget for suc( things and make the government officials (including Trump’s staff) determine how to maximize its use. Go over budget, need to request a variance and the money has to come from somewhere else.


75 posted on 05/25/2019 7:30:27 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Quin Hillyer: Sessions puts a stop to Department of Justice’s bullish abuse of power
76 posted on 05/25/2019 7:43:52 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: Innovative

Did this doofus complain about all the golf Obama played? If not, shut up!


77 posted on 05/25/2019 7:47:40 AM PDT by rcofdayton
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To: Oscar in Batangas
What? You dont like golf?


78 posted on 05/25/2019 8:01:20 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

F Mr. Quin, what exactly has he done for America? Nothing as far as I can tell because I’ve never heard of him before. I can’t remember reading his complaints about all of Obama’s golf outings.


79 posted on 05/25/2019 12:31:23 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: wita
On target as always, wita!
80 posted on 05/25/2019 3:32:30 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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