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Trump Needs a New Hobby
President Trump (how strange it still is to type that) is an avid golfer, which does seem fitting as practically every president in the last 30 years has also been a golfer. Of course we beat constantly on Obama for golfing, and GW Bush was mocked for the same, even though he soon stopped as he felt it dishonorable for president at war taking leisure on the greens (not that the media gave him one iota of credit for this).
Clinton had a rumored reputation of being a horrible cheater on the fairways (no surprise as he was a cheater in other matters too), and now The Donald is taking media flak for golfing. Apparently one of the latest attacks has been on his committing the faux pas of driving his cart on the greens.
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/877880160242028550
Whatever. My rare golf games usually involve watching the other sort of embarrassing faux pas – that of inebriated relatives hitting on the girls driving the mobile refreshment carts, or losing an entire box of balls on the front 9 to water hazards and swimming pools (sidebar: who would want a house built right next to fairway?). But golf is respectable. Golf is intellectual. Golf is…. presidential! This is why I say President Trump needs to find a new hobby. He should take up shooting. I’d settle for trap or skeet shooting, I mean he doesn’t need to go full Ted Nugent and use a full-auto (legally registered) M-16 and nail wild boars from a chopper (and I don’t think he could pull it off anyway) but he should have a more… well… Red-State hobby than golf, and that should be shooting. It would also one-up Vlad the Putin.
Vlad is a Judo champ. Vlad likes to ride horses while bare-chested. These are sooo European. They’re cultured. They’re refined. But Trump with a gun would be Indiana Jones in the Cairo market, tired, ticked off, and just ready to shoot the show off. What could be more red-blooded American than Trump maybe trying his hand at an IDPA match? Or bagging turkeys? John Kerry tried that one and he just didn’t look the part, but Trump could look the part. Well, assuming he doesn’t insist on gold-plating his Mossberg, which I suppose I shouldn’t put past him.
Still, I confidently predict that if Trump takes up shooting, and ditches the golf, he’d already have a lock on 2020. It’s Red-State to the core, it would give him solid ground for tweeting nasty things about New York gun laws, and dang it but it’s just a lot more fun! So President Trump, I implore you, sir, to throw your custom clubs in the closet, grab your MAGA hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses, and join us at the range. It’s the best.
And we won’t mind if you start tweeting unbelievable hunting stories, it’s just part of the game.
All the more reason to do it. They hate us, I say we should own that good and hard.
He would still get it gold plated.
I’d pay good money to watch Melania and Ivanka emptying a few dozen clips. Fully automatic, of course. The President can authorize that, you know.
Melania could use one of those cute little Ingrams, maybe a MAC-10, but I want to see Ivanka with something that would cut a tree in half.
I believe I read somewhere that the Secret Service has their own range in, under, or near the White House. Would you like to bet how they would enjoy one of their arms masters training Trump? Probably pay for tickets to watch.
Okaaay, Skip, if you say so…
There are precedents.
Ooo… Ivanka posing with gun…
My wife would blind me for my own safety…
Yes. And he’s already expressed an interest, and indicated a potential aptitude, along with no political downside . . .
As long as he shoots only the best people.
Personal artillery
Love it!!
I loved the image too. Talk about cool! And that’s the beauty of it too, it’s just so gosh darn American!
I think I saw it in A Woman Called Golda (TV movie 1982) that Golda Meir made jam. Picking, peeling, pureeing. Proper presidential pastime. It’s so wholesome!
No, I can’t imagine it either. But I would love to see him do something so wholly unexpected and good that would render Nancy Pelosi’s ever-wagging jaw look like it was glued to the floor.
There is nothing more enticing or captivating than a beautiful lady adroitly proficient with a piece of art. Could be a violin, or…
I know what I’m saying next time some potential employer asks about my hobbies.
Why not fishing?
If he shot some journalists, millions of Americans would demand that he be named Emperor For Life.
Can you imagine the brilliance of the video in which Trump engages the target with his M4, clicks dry, and transitions to sidearm?
My goodness. Heads would explode.
As a gentle reminder, Trump is an effete New York billionaire who has admitted to cheating on his own spouse and fornicating with the wives of other men in print. He is a draft dodger and a liar. I hope you are proud of your ongoing support for this truly immoral person @skipsul.
Better watch the recoil if that thing goes off.
As another gentle reminder, many of us are sick of these kinds of gentle reminders.
A gentle reminder that NYLibertarianGuy voted for a guy who treated his ex-wife terribly (the woman he cheated on her with and his current woman were not persuaded to marry him) and would have gotten it more prominently into print if he’d been able to get into print more. NYLibertarianGuy has been happy to vote for a liar, a drug addict with many other personal flaws.
I don’t know if he’s proud of his ongoing support for this truly immoral person, but I feel like it’s eccentric for him to throw stones.
‘Fraid Ole Vlad already has Dandy Don out-badassed in the personal-arms arena. Note the calm, deadly assurance with the handgun.
And yea, Trump would only go with one of those canned hunts, with a $60,000 gun, for the only 32-point elk in existence.
Your only hope is Betty Lou.
As an ungentle reminder:
You have zero sense of humor and are a scold.
And now an ungentle warning: Those who comments on posts just to thumb their noses and hurl insults at post authors tend to find themselves suspended.
What about telling people like that to suck eggs? Suspended? Just curious, for research.
See? Even the Queen looks hot in that picture. I’d do her.
Such an outcome would be a shame, because then we would miss out on replies like the one from @JamesofEngland
Geez! Lighten up.
I bet he’d use only the best gear.