We’ve really turned a corner, folks: Presidents hanging out at golf clubs is wrong again.
“White House aides advised the president against golfing so soon after the tragedy, so Trump spent much of the holiday weekend watching cable television news and grousing to club members and advisers.” https://t.co/QXApCb6tNF
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 19, 2018
Per pool, Trump has arrived at Trump International Golf Club.
This is Trump’s 98th day at a golf club as president.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 19, 2018
Author and political correspondent Jared Yates Sexton can’t believe it:
They had to tell him it was in poor taste to golf after a school massacre. The President. Of the United States. https://t.co/G3agUQ5m6z
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 19, 2018
And Media Matters’ Simon Maloy is just disgusted:
the_victims_respecter has logged off https://t.co/14daL7FBUc
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) February 19, 2018
imagine being so emotionally deficient that you attempt a purely symbolic "sacrifice" and fail because you're too selfish to quit golf for a weekend
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) February 19, 2018
Yeah. Can you imagine?
Yeah… the nerve pic.twitter.com/eSig5FOddU
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/965631916333441024
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/965629376678256640
Maybe — just maybe — the optics weren’t great when Obama did it, either.
How about this?
They’re both bad
— Sean Fitzgerald (@SeanBFitzgerald) February 19, 2018
There. Was that so difficult?
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