Obama’s Golf Simulator Wasn’t Sophisticated Enough For Trump. So He Upgraded

U.S. President Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resortduring the U.S. President's first official visit to the United Kingdom on July 15, 2018 in Turnberry, Scotland. The President of the United States and First Lady, Melania Trump on their first official visit to the UK after yesterday's meetings with the Prime Minister and the Queen is in Scotland for private weekend stay at his Turnberry.
TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND - JULY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resort during the U.S. President's first official visit to the United Kingdom on July 15, 2018 in... TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND - JULY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resort during the U.S. President's first official visit to the United Kingdom on July 15, 2018 in Turnberry, Scotland. The President of the United States and First Lady, Melania Trump on their first official visit to the UK after yesterday's meetings with the Prime Minister and the Queen is in Scotland for private weekend stay at his Turnberry. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Thanks to Axios, we now know that President Trump spends most of his work day in executive time, tending to his Twitter account, talking on the phone and watching TV.

Now, add hitting the virtual links to that list.

According to a new report from The Washington Post, President Trump paid out of his own pocket to replace the golf simulator that President Obama installed at the White House with a more “sophisticated” system, in the Post’s words. The simulator takes up an entire room and allows him to play virtual golf at courses across the globe.

The system cost about $50,000 and was set up in his personal quarters. While a White House official told the Post that Trump doesn’t use the simulator during his executive time, the President spends the majority of his morning in his personal residence. Trump doesn’t generally report to the Oval Office until 11 a.m., according to Axios.

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  1. Avatar for spin spin says:

    “Nancy” the other day pointed out that Trump is always “projecting” and this is just another example of this. Here is a list of the 27 times he attacked Obama for playing golf https://www.sbnation.com/golf/2017/3/27/15073086/donald-trump-tweets-barack-obama-golf

    Also video I am sure if I looked.

    He accused everyone else of being lazy, low energy, playing golf. Yet, the truth is that Trump is a lazy fat ass, who spends his day watching TV during “executive time” eating fatty food, and then riding around on a golf cart as he cheats at his scores to make his loser ass look like he is good at something.

    Trump is just a pathetic loser, who (with a lot of help from Jill Stein, Bernie-bros, the Russians, James Comey, the NYT, media “both-sider-ism” and Hillary’s incompetence) managed to con enough people who are dumber than him, in the right places, to get into office.

  2. You could have stopped at ‘It was Obama’s’…that’s enough to trigger the orange dipshit. And let’s be realistic…he couldn’t tell “sophisticated enough” from a hole in the wall.

  3. Well, this is what’s important to him, isn’t it? Playing alone upstairs with his expensive toys, like the spoiled child he is. Pathetic.

  4. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Mystery solved. Many wondered how he went for a month and a half (ish) without going to play golf at one of his courses. Instead he brooded and rage tweeted - a lot.

    So now he can play golf any time and pretend he is at even better courses than his own - all in the privacy of his cloistered, self-indulgent “executive time.”

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