# Book on Trump's golf cheating **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 2, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926 "2019-04-02T15:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/1 "2019-04-02T15:26:45Z")
Not only does he move his own ball against the rules but he also moves the balls of other people to win. He once “won” a tournament when he was in another state. > **[Rick Reilly on How Trump Cheated a Teenage Boy to Win a Golf Championship](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rick-reilly-trump-golf-816324/)** > > A conversation about the president and his favorite sport with the author of Commander in Cheat ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/2 "2019-04-02T15:45:10Z")
Thank you but I didn’t need a book to come out about it to tell me that the Mango Mistake is a con man and a CHEAT (among many other undesirable things). ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/3 "2019-04-02T16:14:40Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Not only does he move his own ball against the rules but he also moves the balls of other people to win. … You know what’s weird? I’ve never seen a picture of that joker with a black eye or a broken nose. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/4 "2019-04-02T16:22:15Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > You know what’s weird? I’ve never seen a picture of that joker with a black eye or a broken nose. Weird. He has all the attributes of someone who would have sported black eyes and a broken nose often in the neighborhood I grew up in: he’s a big-mouth, bully, and a coward. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/5 "2019-04-02T16:22:29Z")
This is just the break that the Hillary campaign has been waiting for! ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/6 "2019-04-02T16:28:49Z")
He still can’t beat Kim Jong Il’s record. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/7 "2019-04-02T16:48:21Z")
Worth noting that Trump is apparently genuinely a good golfer (which I guess is unsurprising given how much he plays). He just wants to be known as an amazing one. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/8 "2019-04-02T16:50:08Z")
Heh. I lunched with a bunch of golfers yesterday and they were talking about this. Given that the linked article was published afterwards (I’m in the UK) I expect they had found an earlier article elsewhere. And they confirmed the veracity of some of his ‘techniques’. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/9 "2019-04-02T16:57:01Z")
What this book will do is convince Republicans that Trump will do what it takes to win, and that is the only thing that matters to them. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/10 "2019-04-02T20:04:22Z")
also today Trump birthered his father - said his father was born in Germany when in was born in NYC. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/11 "2019-04-02T20:42:37Z")
A businessman who cheats at golf??? Well, I never. . . ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/12 "2019-04-02T20:57:04Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > This is just the break that the Hillary campaign has been waiting for! A joke that never gets old. Like a stillborn infant, but not quite as funny. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/13 "2019-04-02T21:49:36Z")
Heard some guy talking about how often Trump will kick his golf ball out of the ruff and onto the fairway. He was nicknamed “Pele” by people who golf with him. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/14 "2019-04-02T22:09:42Z")
The more interesting question is whether there’s a verifiable instance that anyone can cite where Trump has – at any time in his life – ever demonstrated any integrity whatsoever. For example, has there ever been a verified instance where he actually told the truth when a lie would have sounded better? I don’t know of even any trivial example of Trump showing integrity and I doubt that any exist. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/15 "2019-04-02T22:16:44Z")
his friend “John Miller” used to tell the truth when he called into radio shows ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/16 "2019-04-02T22:45:59Z")
Yeah, that John Miller guy really liked Trump a lot! 😃 However, Trump has settled this matter with all the sterling integrity of someone fishing a golf ball out of his pocket when no one is looking and discreetly placing it on the green twelve inches from the hole: “It was not me on the phone,” Trump told NBC’s “Today” show when the recording was played for him during a live interview. “And it doesn’t sound like me on the phone, I’ll tell you that, and it was not me on the phone.” > **[Donald Trump on recording: Not me | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/13/politics/donald-trump-recording-john-miller-barron-fake-press/index.html)** > > Donald Trump said Friday that a newly resurfaced recording of a man who sounds like Trump posing as his spokesman isn't him — even though he has admitted in the past to posing as his own publicist under a pseudonym. Coming from such an unimpeachable source (who may soon be impeached) I guess that settles it! Trump not only confirmed that it was not him on the phone, he said it twice. John Miller had a habit of repeating himself like that, too. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/17 "2019-04-02T23:07:19Z")
Never be repetitious and redundant. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/18 "2019-04-02T23:16:02Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Heh. I lunched with a bunch of golfers yesterday and they were talking about this. Given that the linked article was published afterwards (I’m in the UK) I expect they had found an earlier article elsewhere. And they confirmed the veracity of some of his ‘techniques’. Yeah, I remember reading at least one article during the 2016 campaign in which the writer had talked with a number of people who had played with Trump, and gave similar stories of frequent and unabashed cheating. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/19 "2019-04-02T23:48:40Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > A joke that never gets old. Like a stillborn infant, but not quite as funny. This is just the joke Andrew “Dice” Clay’s career has been waiting for! ---
**Author:** ![Dacien](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dacien/32/5663_2.png) [@Dacien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dacien)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/20 "2019-04-03T03:13:23Z")
I feel like this sort of thing hits both ways. It fires up the anti-Trump base, but at the same time appears extremely petty to the unfaithful. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926.md?page=2)