it's not the biggest trump scandal obviously but lack of media curiosity about trump's obviously fake golf victories is a microcosm of how journalists have treated him for the past decade - ThreadSky

keptsimple.bsky.social • 2 days ago

it's not the biggest trump scandal obviously but lack of media curiosity about trump's obviously fake golf victories is a microcosm of how journalists have treated him for the past decade

Reposted from Jonathan Cohn

Sabotages the global economy and then spends the weekend at a self-rigged golf tournament.

Trump always winning his own golf tournaments just feels like a 5-year-old always winning at board games.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-has-an...

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danafrench.bsky.social•2 days ago

The media as a whole was obeying in advance before we started using that phrase. Trump coverage meant ratings, clicks and print sales (back when that mattered). One of the early steps of breaking a democracy - intimidate the media. Trump 2.0 has taken intimidation to whole new levels of everything.

colonialoneship.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm curious if he knows they are rigged or he buys into the delusion

dankeevy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Remember when we mocked Kim Sung Il for exactly the same thing? Like all the Chicago Bulls jokes, and him being the best Director and shit? Oh how the turn tables.

edrobot.bsky.social•2 days ago

I was willing to belive that he was okay at golf but now I'm starting to doubt he even knows how to play.

keptsimple.bsky.social•2 days ago

like there is just no drive to look into anything this guy is doing at all? it's really strange. there are of course many trump scandals but they are all committed in the open, handed to media on silver platter by a whistleblower, or revealed by a non traditional news source

jables.bsky.social•2 days ago

He does so many crimes and weird things, every single niche publication could have a viable angle for coming at him.

louisevans.bsky.social•2 days ago

cf Gamer Elon's trajectory

leftyvegan.bsky.social•2 days ago

I hear he's also pretty awesome at Path of Exile 2.

cingraham.bsky.social•2 days ago

Golf dot com running laps around the NYT on this https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/

chris-begley.bsky.social•2 days ago

Rick Reilly also literally wrote a book on it:
https://www.amazon.com/Commander-Cheat-Golf-Explains-Trump/dp/0316528080

neetsbluesky.bsky.social•2 days ago

WaPo ran a story back in 2015, but it was in the Style section

hammbear2024.bsky.social•2 days ago

Golf media, on the whole, has been really bad on many Trump related issues, however.

madmonkeyxxi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Entre lui et Musk qui triche pour avoir des hauts scores aux jeux vidéo les américains sont vraiment dirigés par des enfants de 8 ans immatures.

pja.bsky.social•2 days ago

Past six decades but yeah

brandonjitsu.bsky.social•2 days ago

Interesting that Musk and Trump both share this exact same pathology. Literally only the worst people you've ever met do this kind of thing!

reedonly.bsky.social•2 days ago

It could be that most people don't have a good measure for what sucking at golf looks like. If he was playing basketball or walking briskly, it would be more obvious

vcdevaraj.bsky.social•2 days ago

There’s a whole book about it: https://books.google.com/books/about/Commander_in_Cheat.html?id=kEFtDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description

russ741.bsky.social•2 days ago

Watching him radicalize Rick Goddamned Reilly was truly a thing to behold.

ghengiz.bsky.social•2 days ago

#GreatLeapBackward

expiredcaviar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Vaguely recalling a golf magazine article about this

saudades.bsky.social•2 days ago

its so ricky gervais office-coded.

nooilfpl.bsky.social•2 days ago

There’s a good book about it called Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.

ploehmann.bsky.social•1 day ago

There must be someone who has used how different presidents approached and played golf as a way to describe how they were presidents? Obama was apparently a super slow player who would take far too long over decisions, for instance; Trump outrightly just cheats in a game predicated on gentlemanship.

timprice.bsky.social•2 days ago

This reminds me of one of my favorite lesser Trump bits that did get some attention: the fake Time Magazine cover that he had printed and hung up in his golf clubs https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-time-magazine-with-trump-on-the-cover-hangs-in-his-golf-clubs-its-fake/2017/06/27/0adf96de-5850-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html

timprice.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump is hitting on all fronts… even TV!

kmmickvega.bsky.social•2 days ago

I seriously think that one sneaky way to damage Trump would be to pay someone to not fake-lose to him and actually beat him. The psychic damage to Trump might put him out of our misery.

dceiver.bsky.social•2 days ago

yeah it's a fucking joke how many nominally smart people are trying to crack the tariff code like he's playing 12th dimensional chess when the truth is "senile asshole pooped his diaper"

jhackmeister.bsky.social•2 days ago

He has to keep up with his mentor, have you seen Putin's hockey "games"?

seapeaare.bsky.social•2 days ago

Had a buddy bring up his golf wins as proof of his virility last fall. "He cant just lie on those. Other people would have to let him cheat" was the reasoning...

doctoracularf.bsky.social•2 days ago

Remember during one of the 2016 primaries when he claimed he brought a bunch off "Trump steaks" for the press, and you could see the name of the actual deli where they got them from on the wrappers

guydebored.bsky.social•2 days ago

Definitely up there with his most pathetic boondoggles

mattptaylor.bsky.social•2 days ago

I vaguely remember Golf Digest or someone doing a story on this during Trump’s first term and him freaking out and threatening to shut them down.

chadmasterclass.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's not only pathetic to be newsworthy, it's pathetic enough to get clicks, and it's still not enough for them.

It's same phenomenon as with Biden: somehow becoming too stupid to act in your own interests. Irrational as a baseline.

ginamarie295.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup.

atrapter.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Kim Jong Il lies about his golf scores and the korean people believe it" was the number one example in US media for decades about how north korea was a dystopian hellscape where everyone has been brainwashed into become mindless zombies

daveawayfromhome.bsky.social•2 days ago

Again and again and again: the Myth of the Liberal Media is the Right’s most successful Big Lie. All the other lies depend heavily, if not entirely, upon it.

neilmctee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Similarly the media seems completely uninterested in how the president is barely literate.

It's like they have nothing to say abou it. It's simply not worth mentioning that the guy with the nuclear codes writes like, at best, a 12 year old.

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