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red dog 1

(32,346 posts)
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 04:40 PM Nov 9

Adam Schiff on ABC today: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.'

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-11-09T15:03:03.154Z
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Adam Schiff on ABC today: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' (Original Post) red dog 1 Nov 9 OP
We can't be shocked any more at anything Trump does. He doesn't care about us. CTyankee Nov 9 #1
He's a psychopath who just wants to watch the world burn. Initech Nov 9 #5
His golfing costs could feed a lot of people but that would be a big imposition for him, so no, he golfs Deuxcents Nov 9 #2
To Be Fair... ProfessorGAC Nov 9 #3
"The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.'" J_William_Ryan Nov 9 #4

Deuxcents

(25,348 posts)
2. His golfing costs could feed a lot of people but that would be a big imposition for him, so no, he golfs
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 05:04 PM
Nov 9

ProfessorGAC

(75,682 posts)
3. To Be Fair...
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 05:12 PM
Nov 9

...the costs are sunk. Could those secret service & administrative people be put to better use? Absolutely. But, his golfing doesn't cut costs. Even when he profits from expensive hotel rooms for those people at his resort, it's still sunk. POTUS doesn't have the authority to move money earmarked for administrative costs for something else. Nit that he cares about rules.
It's more the appearance of cruelty that golf is more important than people being hungry and "winning" over the dems is the goal, not helping hungey people.
That is, alas, completely predictable.
Obama & Biden would not have gone to recreate during a protracted shutdown, simply because that would be wrong. Doing bad things is not an impediment for Trump.

J_William_Ryan

(3,280 posts)
4. "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.'"
Sun Nov 9, 2025, 05:15 PM
Nov 9

Nobody cares.

Yes, Trump is a reprehensible treasonous insurrectionist, criminal, convicted felon, and sex offender, completely unfit to be president or hold any public office.

Yes, Trump is selfish and self-centered – he cares nothing about the American people, nothing about their suffering and needs.

And yes, the voters knew this and more from Trump’s first failed, disastrous term – but they don’t care; complaining about Trump playing golf while millions of Americans suffer and struggle is pointless.

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