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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.
He’ll murderize him!
If that’s the case, then why bring up Bill Clinton’s infidelities? Didn’t the American voters similarly “brush[] aside” his known indiscretions twice as well?
Hobbies?!
The purpose of bringing up Bill Clinton’s infidelities was to draw attention away from his abuses of power, obstructions of justice, and other crimes. A lot of Republicans fell for it, too. Sometimes it works.
Well, I suppose scoring with interns could be considered a hobby?
Obama likes judo!
Oops, I wrote that wrong. I meant, Obama likes to wince like a little girl and hide behind his woman when he sees real men sparring in judo.
I’ve been known to enjoy derailing threads from time to time, but I think this one needs to be put back on the rails, and I am not at all equipped for that.
FALSE. There are no pro-Trump moderators on Ricochet and you’re hearing it from the most Pro-Trump SOB on Ricochet. I’ve cussed skipsul many times (under my breath, never in print) because of how totally wrong he is about Trump. I remain hopeful they’ll all come around to my way of thinking some day, but in no way does this funny article raise my hopes, even a little.
Arguably, in 1992 it could be said that mass media had so successfully covered for Bill Clinton that most voters could discount those allegations. By 1996, it was known that he was a rat, but the women voted for him anyway; he was so charming, and media made Bob Dole look stiff and menacing. (Dole won among men, but Clinton had a greater majority among women.)
The reason to bring up Bill Clinton’s old infidelities was to demonstrate the hypocrisies of Team Hillary and Leftist mass media. They were pounding on Trump over bad treatment of women, and it was legitimate to point out that they had covered up Bill Clinton’s worse treatment of women. They had no actual concern for the women; they were using the issue strictly for partisan advantage.
You must not be aware of some of the pieces I wrote for the election:
http://ricochet.com/archives/vote-trump-its-fantastic/
http://ricochet.com/archives/ulysses-s-trump/
^This one even had a shout-out by none other than Peter Robinson.
JamesOfEngland did campaign work for Trump, though he’s not a US citizen.
Midge lives in Illinois, so her vote was basically a throwaway.
I was on the record of being willing to vote for any Republican nominee (except for Christie or ¡Jeb!) as early as August of 2015.
Yeah, but Skip, you’re not pro-Trump enough.
Although from my perspective, being cursed out by both sides for being too much in the other camp means you’re doing a good job as moderator, so keep it up.
I’m an equal opportunity offender.
Stop trying to change my mind! :)