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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