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Miles Archer

(21,180 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:29 AM Friday

Trump's "THANKSGIVING CALL" to U.S. Troops: "I know a lot about golf. I've won 38 club championships..."

In a livestreamed call Thursday with troops from bases around the world, Trump was asked his true golf handicap and if he and former President Joe Biden are ever going to play a match.

Trump claimed he had invited Biden, but he never showed up, but dodged the question about his own golf handicap except to suggest it was far better than his predecessor’s. In an extended brag, he also insisted that his dozens of tournament wins were all “legitimate.”

Trump has gone golfing on nearly 25 percent of the days he’s been back in office, according to a website that tracks his time on the green.

“I know a lot about golf. I’ve won 38 club championships, and I don’t get to practice much. I won one last year,” he said. “I won a club championship at a big club, beating a 27-year-old kid. I said, ‘You know, I’m decades older than you.’ But I said, ‘The fairway doesn’t know how old you are as you walk up the middle and he’s in the rough.’ And, uh, I’ve been a good golfer over the years.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-derails-troop-call-with-bonkers-rant-about-his-golf-record/

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Trump's "THANKSGIVING CALL" to U.S. Troops: "I know a lot about golf. I've won 38 club championships..." (Original Post) Miles Archer Friday OP
Off the rails doesn't even describe it. democrank Friday #1
He likes to tell people how great he is. He suffers from Braggart Syndrome. Emile Friday #2
Trump is a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. And a psychopath. Irish_Dem Friday #3
The risk level is quite high for him to commit dangerous acts. That's scary, Emile Friday #4
Trump was furious last time in WH, because he was stopped from doing dangerous stuff. Irish_Dem Friday #5
Yep. One more Trump Myth that is perpetuated by the media. Miles Archer Friday #6
Trump is a long time adderall abuser. Irish_Dem Friday #7
He is still trying to prove his worth to the father who would never be pleased Attilatheblond Friday #15
I also know a lot about draft dodging and bonespurs malaise Friday #8
His comment on not paying taxes was the litmus test for every other rotten deed in his life Miles Archer Friday #10
100% correct malaise Friday #11
Agree malaise Friday #25
How many club championships at clubs you don't own, Donny? tanyev Friday #9
I've been meaning to tell the DU community: PCIntern Friday #12
Holy shit why doesn't he just fucking die already? Orrex Friday #13
It surprises me that none of his golfing compadres ever beat him with a rurallib Friday #20
In addition to being a dented idiot, It's no secret he cheats surfered Friday #14
In The Worst Way ProfessorGAC Friday #17
Winter rules! Kingofalldems Friday #19
Golfers always pride themselves on the civility and honor of the game. travelingthrulife Friday #22
I'm Not Sure "Adore" Is Right ProfessorGAC Friday #24
Trump kicks the ball so much, he is nicknamed Pele. Norrrm Friday #16
NEXT: Trump tells soccer moms he defeated Pele and won 'soccer world championship' dalton99a Friday #18
He has no class, no grace, no charm Johonny Friday #21
Trump cheats. At everything. LetMyPeopleVote Friday #23
He wins at "championships" where he owns the club, and even then he cheats. Ocelot II Friday #26
He is such a bad bullshitter johnnyfins Friday #27
Just fuck that fatass piece of shit criminal rapist pedophile Blue Owl Friday #28

democrank

(12,014 posts)
1. Off the rails doesn't even describe it.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:39 AM
Friday

Trump’s self-centeredness is evident in every communication. Remember…..he can stare straight ahead when someone falls to the floor right next to him.

Irish_Dem

(78,501 posts)
3. Trump is a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. And a psychopath.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:54 AM
Friday

He is seriously mentally ill.

Also a long time drug addict who now has dementia.

The risk level is quite high for him to commit dangerous acts.

Emile

(39,619 posts)
4. The risk level is quite high for him to commit dangerous acts. That's scary,
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:59 AM
Friday

considering the ass kissing idiots he has in his administration. Who in hell will stop him?

Irish_Dem

(78,501 posts)
5. Trump was furious last time in WH, because he was stopped from doing dangerous stuff.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 07:01 AM
Friday

Now there is no one.

Miles Archer

(21,180 posts)
6. Yep. One more Trump Myth that is perpetuated by the media.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 07:03 AM
Friday

"Oh, Donald was SO SHAKEN by the death of his BROTHER that he has NEVER TOUCHED drugs or alcohol."

Side Effects of Adderall

Irish_Dem

(78,501 posts)
7. Trump is a long time adderall abuser.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 07:16 AM
Friday

It is said he snorts it like cocaine.

And people who worked with Trump on his reality TV show said he was a regular cocaine user.
This is what caused his fecal incontinence.

We can see he acts manic much of the time.
He looks high. His decorations in the Oval Office are classic Bipolar or drug high stuff.

Attilatheblond

(7,951 posts)
15. He is still trying to prove his worth to the father who would never be pleased
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:51 AM
Friday

And so he has to constantly tell himself he's 'the best' but deep inside, he knows he is a worthless chump.

malaise

(291,605 posts)
8. I also know a lot about draft dodging and bonespurs
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 07:39 AM
Friday

and no one heats at golf better than me.
That is all

Miles Archer

(21,180 posts)
10. His comment on not paying taxes was the litmus test for every other rotten deed in his life
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:16 AM
Friday

He's convinced that "rules" and the concept of "illegal" versus "legal" is there for everyone else. Having a daddy who paid a doctor for a false bone spurs diagnosis to keep Richie Rich out of Vietnam also made him "smart."

Trump: ‘I’m smart’ for not paying taxes

By Daniella Diaz, CNN

Updated 12:39 PM EDT, Tue September 27, 2016

Clinton was pressing Trump for not releasing his tax returns for public scrutiny. Trump has said he won’t release his tax returns until a routine audit is complete, though every major party presidential candidate over the past 40 years have released tax returns.

“There is something he is hiding,” Clinton said of Trump during the debate.

“Or maybe he doesn’t want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he’s paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody’s ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn’t pay any federal income tax,” she said.

“That makes me smart,” Trump said.

PCIntern

(27,872 posts)
12. I've been meaning to tell the DU community:
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:20 AM
Friday

I have won 12 Olympic Gold Medals and 8 Silver. In many sports…the officials said that they had never seen such a natural athlete. One judge in gymnastics came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, “Sir, your Iron Cross was a solid 10. We were debating as to whether we should have given you an 11 because we had never seen anything like that.”

Then I left for the discus and shotput finals followed by the Marathon which I won by 12 minutes over that guy from that shit hole country.

rurallib

(64,466 posts)
20. It surprises me that none of his golfing compadres ever beat him with a
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 10:06 AM
Friday

mashie niblick or possibly a brassy

ProfessorGAC

(75,477 posts)
17. In The Worst Way
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:57 AM
Friday

People talk about forecaddies moving his ball, him moving others' to a disadvantageous spot, taking the ball out of bumkers...
But, it's worse. He shaves strokes!
Second shot in the water. Takes drop. Hits ball onto green. 15' from the hole, he picks up, calling it good.
Calls that a 4 when it's a 6.
Do that 6 times a round and an 87 becomes a 75.
Of course, he puts the 87 in the handicap computer so he's got 14 handicap. He's net is 61. Club players are not going to shoot net 61.
I just remember the quote of an unnamed touring pro that played with him when told Trump said he shot 73.
"Yes, he shot a 73 but I can't say whether that was after 12 or 13 holes."

travelingthrulife

(4,026 posts)
22. Golfers always pride themselves on the civility and honor of the game.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 10:26 AM
Friday

One would think they would despise someone who lies about his game all the time. Yet they adore him.

ProfessorGAC

(75,477 posts)
24. I'm Not Sure "Adore" Is Right
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 10:52 AM
Friday

Perhaps tolerate. They get treated like kings on a world-class golf course for free, so can hobnob with real world-class golfers.
Merely transactional.

Norrrm

(3,623 posts)
16. Trump kicks the ball so much, he is nicknamed Pele.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:54 AM
Friday

Trump's Golf Game Goes Viral: Caddie Caught Dropping Ball!

dalton99a

(91,440 posts)
18. NEXT: Trump tells soccer moms he defeated Pele and won 'soccer world championship'
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 09:48 AM
Friday

right after he won his Super Bowl MVP

Ocelot II

(128,533 posts)
26. He wins at "championships" where he owns the club, and even then he cheats.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 12:20 PM
Friday

He even won a tournament he never played in. https://sports.yahoo.com/president-trump-somehow-won-a-golf-tournament-without-even-playing-in-it-221538855.html

He also pitched a no-hitter to win some World Series at some point.

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