“It’s hard to see how July could have gone much worse for President Trump.
It was revealed that, contrary to his repeated insistence, his son had been tipped off about Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election — and had embraced those efforts with open arms. Trump signed no new legislation, and saw his main policy focus, health care, collapse yet again on Capitol Hill. He lost his press secretary after hiring a controversial new communications director, and then enjoyed the spectacle of that new hire giving a remarkably vulgar on-record interview to a reporter about his chief of staff, who resigned the next day. Trump traveled to Europe to meet with other world leaders, and returned home to unflattering reviews of his conversation with Vladimir Putin. The one that the White House told reporters about, that is.
But the month wasn’t a total wash! Trump managed to squeeze in at least eight rounds of golf over the course of July and, with the exception of one Saturday he was stuck flying back from Europe, hit up one of his personal businesses on every single weekend day.”
“As of July 31, Trump’s visited his own properties on 57 of the 193 days he’s been president, a rate of once every 3.4 days. He’s played golf once every 5.7 days ….”
— “Trump had a terrible July, but at least he played a lot of golf,” Philip Bump, Washington Post
See the chart here
Related:
“First Golfer: Donald Trump’s relationship with golf has never been more complicated,” Alan Shipnuck, Golf
“Commander in cheat: Trump regularly breaks the rules of golf, exaggerates his handicap,” Taylor Link, Salon
“Does Trump Suck At Golf? An Impartial Investigation,” Erin Gloria Ryan, Daily Beast
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