By Like most white men with too much time and money, Donald Trump is absolutely obsessed with golf. Now, though, he's found a way to avoid the reproach of anyone sceptical about how much time, money and legally questionable emoluments the game has sucked from the White House.
According to the Washington Post, a White House official has confirmed that Trump has had a $50,000 golf simulator installed in his private residence which allows him to pretend he's playing on courses all over the world.
It takes up an entire room and replaces an older model Barack Obama had installed which Trump apparently didn't use. That's quite surprising, seeing as since he started playing as a college student at the University of Pennsylvania, Trump has been a noted golf zealot. The Post estimates he's played at least 139 times as president, though it's impossible to say for sure because he never actually admits to it. The Trump Golf Tracker website puts the number as high as 156.
Back in 2005, the book The Best Golf Advice I Have Ever Received came out under Trump's name, though his pearls of wisdom extended to 153 words of introduction (including a hefty plug for Trump's own courses: "Among the best in the world... we have contributed to the joys of golf for millions of people") before a 320-page smash-and-grab copy-paste job of pros relaying the best advice they'd received. So, more accurately, it's The Best Golf Advice Other, Better Golfers Have Ever Received, Plus A Short Irrelevant Introduction.
