Now watch this drive
by digby
He didn’t have to do this. It would have been an easy PR gesture to cancel his appearance at this thing and say he’s too busy with the hurricane response.
He won’t because he has said everything’s going perfectly. And it’s obviously the highlight of his week:
President Donald Trump will attend the Presidents Cup golf tournament, where he is set to participate in the trophy presentation on Sunday, according to the White House.
The trip comes a day after the president was criticized for golfing and tweeting Saturday while Puerto Rico continued to grapple with the response to Hurricane Maria, which has devastated the U.S. territory.
This is yet another way that he is telling his critics to go fuck themselves.
You can’t make this stuff up:
In Florida, Trump encourages a supporter to say this for the cameras: “Where was Obama on the last hurricane? He was playing golf!” pic.twitter.com/PAFG3NjwHx— Jonah Green (@jonah_green) September 14, 2017
Update:
You won’t believe it. He dedicated the gold trophy to the victims of the hurricanes.
“On behalf of all of the people of Texas, and all of the people — if you look today and see what is happening, how horrible it is but we have it under really great control — Puerto Rico and the people of Florida who have really suffered over this last short period of time with the hurricanes, I want to just remember them,” the president said.
“And we’re going to dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through so much that we love — a part of our great state, really part of our great nation,