Posted on 09/12/2026 2:19:52 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
President Trump has arrived at Áras an Uachtaráin in Phoenix Park, Dublin for a bilateral meeting! 🇺🇸🇮🇪
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2 trips to Dallas for GOP Convention; 9/11 ceremonies in DC, swiftly followed by trip to Ireland.
Trump needs to get the Shia Islamists to take up golf.
Will that happen in Ireland this year?
Did you know the origins of golf was war?
They didn’t have slingshot, so they used long sticks to lob their stones.
False.The claim that golf originated as a form of warfare—specifically that people used long sticks to lob stones because they lacked slingshots—is a myth with no supporting historical evidence.
britannica.com
Golf's true origins are debated and somewhat obscure. Stick-and-ball games existed in various cultures long before the modern game:Ancient Roman paganica (hitting a stuffed ball with a bent stick).
Chinese chuiwan (“hit ball”) from at least the Song/Ming eras, involving clubs and targets/holes.
Dutch/Low Countries games like kolf/colf (documented as early as the late 13th century in some accounts), which involved striking a ball toward a target.
history.com
What we recognize as modern golf (hitting a ball over open ground toward a hole in the ground, eventually standardized around 18 holes) developed in Scotland from the Middle Ages onward. The earliest clear written reference is a 1457 Scottish parliamentary act under King James II that banned golf (along with football) because it distracted people from mandatory archery practice needed for military defense against England. Later bans reinforced this. The game was already popular enough to be seen as a problem for readiness in war—not a product of it.
history.com
Early Scottish play often involved hitting pebbles or balls with sticks/clubs over dunes or rough ground (sometimes linked to shepherds passing time). There is no credible historical account of soldiers inventing or using golf as a battlefield technique of lobbing stones with sticks as a slingshot substitute. Slingshots and other projectile weapons existed independently for millennia.In short, golf has incidental historical ties to military concerns (it competed with training), and various cultures played similar recreational games, but the specific “origins in war / sticks instead of slingshots” story is not true.
Well, you know Grok. Bad programming in and bad programming out.
My Dublin born grandmother played in that park as a girl.
Watching Trump live in Dublin and you’d think he was doing stand-up comedy as there is a laugh track after most of Trump’s remarks. Never heard this before from any Trump rally or address. More laughs than the Correspondant dinner even though that it meant as a light hearted dinner with jokes intentionally written.
He has gone there to negotiate an send to the golf war.
golf war. Good one haha. I did see at the end of his speech, once the Village People YMCA song was starting he did do the “air golf swing” which also drew laughter from the crowd.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/12/politics/president-donald-trump-arrives-ireland
Agenda: (officially) trade, foreign policy, reaffirming economic and cultural ties, controversial remarks on Irish reunification. (unofficially) Working vacation.
Of course the UK / Irish media went absolutely nuts on the comment on Irish unification: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0zvx15rywo
He hit a soft spot there, not really, but he gave the media an opportunity.
The greater spirit in which it was meant “can't we all get along.”
I'm sure no one really misunderstood, except the media looking for controversy. Surely there may be a few idiots that get excited about this. He's taking his family and going to his golf club. That's called a vacation.
Ireland has a 3.2% tariff (among the lowest). That alone should tell you where the US - Irish relations are: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypxnnyg7jo or https://www.kcra.com/article/trump-announces-10-125-tariffs-60-us-trade-partners-list-countries/73257095
The US and Ireland are on “excellent” terms (security, trade, political, culture). The petty controversy is media generated.
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