# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/61 "2019-05-17T19:59:25Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > He is claiming he shot a 68 last month . > > [https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/donald-trump-golf/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/donald-trump-golf/index.html) Hell, I shot a 68. But on the second hole. . . ---
**Author:** ![Kelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/62 "2019-05-17T20:57:06Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > He is claiming he shot a 68 last month . > > [https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/donald-trump-golf/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/donald-trump-golf/index.html) Ridiculous lie. Ridiculous human being. Our president. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/63 "2019-05-17T22:33:21Z")
Finished the book just the other day. Didn’t really tell me anything I didn’t already know about the Mango Menace’s complete and utter lack of character. But Rick Reilly’s writing made it at least somewhat amusing (at times). ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/64 "2019-05-18T00:29:50Z")
> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > Clinton also believed that golf rules were flexible when he was involved. Rick Reilly, a man who is serious about golf, doesn’t like Clinton’s cheating either. But, based on what Reilly wrote, Clinton’s cheating doesn’t bother me. – Bill Clinton does not claim to have won eighteen (or any) club championships. – Clinton cheats, or cheated, openly. – Clinton cheats to gleefully help himself, not to hurt others. Bill doesn’t race ahead in his double-speed golf cart, then throwing an opponent’s ball in the rough, as does my current President. – Bill Clinton does not refuse to pay people who joined his clubs before he purchased them, and then resigned from the club, the contractually refundable portion of their original initiation fee. Admittedly, a big reason for this is that Bill Clinton doesn’t own any golf clubs. But, if he did, I suspect they would be legitimate businesses rather than a near-Ponzi-scheme to fleece the people who joined the clubs before Trump bought them (read the book). – Bill Clinton does not recruit the Secret Service to cheat for him. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/65 "2019-05-20T01:23:25Z")
[Someone](https://www.npr.org/2019/05/19/724796572/president-trumps-golf-scores-hacked-on-u-s-golf-association-account) has apparently hacked into 45’s USGA account and posted a bunch of very high scores. Ha ha, isn’t that funny. Worse than a waste of time and effort, it makes him look like a victim instead of the asshole that he is. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/66 "2019-05-20T02:12:56Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > [Someone](https://www.npr.org/2019/05/19/724796572/president-trumps-golf-scores-hacked-on-u-s-golf-association-account) has apparently hacked into 45’s USGA account and posted a bunch of very high scores. Ha ha, isn’t that funny. Worse than a waste of time and effort, it makes him look like a victim instead of the asshole that he is. Works for _him_, though, since he’s **always** trying to come off like he’s the victim of _some_thing. What an effing doorknob. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926/67 "2019-05-20T03:38:09Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Trump. Charity. Now THAT’S a side-splitter! Well to be fair Trump has donated his presidential salary to if not charities, at least government agencies. I’m sure he had donated some small amounts to charities, however begrudgingly, over the years. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-obama-salary-donations/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-obama-salary-donations/) > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > [Someone](https://www.npr.org/2019/05/19/724796572/president-trumps-golf-scores-hacked-on-u-s-golf-association-account) has apparently hacked into 45’s USGA account and posted a bunch of very high scores. Ha ha, isn’t that funny. Worse than a waste of time and effort, it makes him look like a victim instead of the asshole that he is. It appears that the information they have posted is not accurate, I’m not sure if that means just some of the information is inaccurate or all of it but they have scores for him for days when it has been verified he didn’t even play. [https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/05/19/trumps-golf-scores-may-have-been-hacked-report/amp/](https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/05/19/trumps-golf-scores-may-have-been-hacked-report/amp/) > [@](#): > > Scores of 101, 100, 108 and 102 were posted under the commander-in-chief’s name on the USGA’s handicap service Friday — but Trump was traveling from New York to DC those days and did not hit the links. Carry on… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-on-trumps-golf-cheating/831926.md?page=3)