Did Trump Just Cheat On Camera?

Watch this. This is out of context but it comes from a highly reliable source, Ron Filipkowski, who has never posted anything fake that I am aware of and I live in his thread. Was this something done during a practice session? And if so, why? Why not just leave the ball where it is? Or, was this done during a tournament, one of the many that Donald Trump claims to have won? Not that him doing this is anything new, as you’ll read below. The man always cheats and is renowned for same in the golf world.

This is how you shoot 67 to win your 21st consecutive club championship. pic.twitter.com/RYnRGliP6P

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 13, 2023

As you see, the others are just walking by, oblivious. I daresay that’s how they’re paid to be. If you work for Trump and you see him cheating at golf, that’s a bit like working for McDonald’s and noticing when somebody flips a burger. That’s background imagery and noise, you zone it out. I speculate that watching Trump cheat soon becomes the same thing.

And the 215 pound athlete is wearing very svelte clothes. High-waisted pants are all the rage, I hear. Expect Trump to start selling his own clothing line next, or maybe Ivanka will help him. Oh wait, they’re not speaking. Darn.

You’ve seen Trump’s exertion for the day, he bent down to pick up his golf ball. I can hear him on the phone, “I just need you to find me 67 strokes,” and then of course he’ll win the game. Hell, I don’t even play golf (two lessons once, in my entire life) but if you’ll find me 67 strokes, I can win a championship, too, of that I have no doubt.

Read this from Golf.com. It’s from a book called Commander In Cheat, by Rick Reilly.

I used to have this coach who told us, “How you do one thing is how you do everything. You loaf in practice, you’re gonna loaf in the game. You cheat on your tests, you’re gonna cheat on your wife.”

I’ve found that to be true with golf. The guy who plays slowly on the course is going to be molasses in meetings. The guy who’s generous with compliments on the course is going to do the same at dinner. And the guy who cheats on the course is going to cheat in business, or on his taxes or, say, in politics.

Jack O’Donnell worked with Donald Trump for four years as vice president of Trump Plaza Casino in Atlantic City. O’Donnell’s dad was one of the founders of Sawgrass, the iconic Pete Dye golf course near Jacksonville, Fla. “My dad always told us to respect the game,” O’Donnell says. “That’s the one part of the game that tells me what kind of person you are. You play the ball where it lies.” So when O’Donnell’s office colleague, the late Mark Eddis, came back after his first round with Trump, O’Donnell couldn’t resist asking.

“So, does he improve his lie?”

Eddis looked at him and threw his head back in laughter. “Every shot but the tee shot.”

Trump doesn’t just cheat at golf. He cheats like a three-card Monte dealer. He throws it, boots it, and moves it. He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: “Pele.”

“I played with him once,” says Bryan Marsal, longtime Winged Foot member and chair of the coming 2020 Men’s U.S. Open. “It was a Saturday morning game. We go to the first tee and he couldn’t have been nicer. But then he said, ‘You see those two guys? They cheat. See me? I cheat. And I expect you to cheat because we’re going to beat those two guys today.’… So, yes, it’s true, he’s going to cheat you. But I think Donald, in his heart of hearts, believes that you’re gonna cheat him, too. So if it’s the same, if everybody’s cheating, he doesn’t see it as really cheating.”

This is insightful. This is Trump’s worldview. He believes everybody is cheating. He views life through the dark glass of a smashed moral compass. He knows he’s cheating but whitewashes it because the other guy is doing it too. He’s the ultimate both sider.

And he sabotages other golfers as well. Read the entire article linked to. It describes a golfer named Tirico who hit a hell of a shot and then when he got to it the ball wasn’t where it should have been.

“Lousy break,” Trump said to Tirico, who checked the marking on the ball to be sure it was his. It was. Befuddled, it took Tirico two swipes to escape the bunker on the way to a 7.

“Afterwards,” Tirico remembers, “Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5? It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it into the bunker. I watched him do it.’”

What did Tirico do? He laughed, shook his head, went inside, and paid Trump his money. When it comes to golf, Trump is the tornado and you are the trailer.

In the world of golf, the article says, everybody knows Trump cheats and it’s just a fact of life. Because it’s a game, they can afford to blow it off. But government is not a game. A mentality like the one he’s got is a complete menace to our way of life and it’s nothing short of horrifying that he is purportedly in a scoring position to win a second term.

But the good news is that it’s a long way to November 5, 2024 and at the rate things are moving, a lot can happen. This is one presidential race where Trump’s candidacy can turn on a dime. And our survival may depend upon just that.