{"id":37815,"date":"2019-07-07T01:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T01:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37815"},"modified":"2019-07-07T01:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T01:44:55","slug":"potus-is-teeing-it-up-again-and-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37815","title":{"rendered":"POTUS is teeing it up … again, and again, and again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I follow Robert Reich on Facebook partly because I agree with his political world view, but also partly because he thinks the same way I do about certain politicians \u2026 such as Donald John Trump, just to cite the obvious example.<\/p>\n

Here is what the former Clinton administration labor secretary wrote today about the current president:<\/p>\n

Trump’s golf trips have now cost taxpayers an estimated $108 million dollars. One of the major expenses is his use of military helicopters to fly short distances to his resorts in Northern Virginia and New Jersey.<\/em><\/p>\n

Remember, this is the same man who railed against Barack Obama, and vowed “he wouldn’t have time to golf” as president. Meanwhile, he is draining the treasury to fund his hobby while cutting programs for low-income and middle-class Americans. Shameful.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ignore that Reich wrote “dollars” while using the dollar symbol. His point is spot on.<\/p>\n

Trump’s hideous criticism of Barack Obama’s golf outings missed the point by a mile. The point, which I have sought to make on this blog, is that president’s are never “off the clock.” I didn’t begrudge Obama’s golf outings when he served as president and, truthfully, I don’t begrudge Trump’s golf excursions now.<\/p>\n

Except that Trump made such an a** of himself criticizing President Obama that he now exposes himself to criticism from those who like to point that he “lied” about having “no time for golf” once he became president. Trump told he would be just too damn busy “making America great again.”<\/p>\n

America is just as great now as it was when Trump took office — at least I think<\/em> it is.<\/p>\n

If only the president had kept his pie hole shut while campaigning for the office. He wouldn’t have exposed himself to be the lying hypocrite that he is.<\/p>\n

However, do the legions of Trumpkins out there care that they are lining up behind an unreconstructed liar? Hardly!<\/p>\n\n

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