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of the two golf courses upgrading infrastructure expanding the pool complex building a very nice indoor tennis center and expanding the grill and outdoor patio but it all had to be done his way for instance he spent a large sum adding an enormous waterfall to the 18th hole waterfalls are one of the signatures of his golf courses if he built one on mars he d insist it have a waterfall of some sort this particular waterfall however didn t have much volume when it was turned on it was more like a trickle with water burbling over the edge members were then instructed that it was not a waterfall but a water sculpture trump also introduced us early on to fake news when the course renovation was completed members found a curious addition on the potomac river at the far east end of the property between the green for what is now the par 3 thirteenth hole of the championship course and the tee box to the fourteenth hole there trump had erected a huge flagpole for one of his signature ginormous american flags for the false patriotism of a family that has never had anyone serve in our military at the base of the flagpole we found a plaque titled river of blood which commemorates a civil war battle so intense that the water in the potomac river would turn red from the casualties trump proclaimed it his great honor to have preserved this historic section of the potomac preserved by purchasing an existing private golf course with no public access members were mildly amused unlike most civil war plaques in history centric virginia this one had no date for the battle and listed no commanding officers of the opposing forces most members knew that no such battle was fought there i certainly knew one member circulated an email showing that the only civil war activity anywhere near there was a nighttime cavalry crossing by famed confederate general j e b stuart on his way to gettysburg for which there is a legitimate plaque in a nearby public park when a member asked trump about the plaque a couple years later during a tour of the course he admitted that he had made it up but when the new york times did a story about the fake monument during his presidential campaign trump insisted that some historian had told him it was true this plaque simply encapsulates the entire ridiculousness of donald trump even after the nyt story the plaque remains trump also added a couple of rolex clocks installed an ugly fountain at the club entrance changed the color scheme to his signature gold and black and installed granite curbstones along the cart paths he installed a stone bridge across a creek which has a large t in the middle its arch but he also insisted on putting in a couple other little bridges and waterfalls in the creek we rarely had a problem with that creek before but now when it rains these restrictions cause the creek to back up overflow flood portions of the course and then severely erode when it finally drains out this is another trait typical of donald trump he knows more than the experts i know more about isis than the generals any engineer would have told him not to dam up the creek he also insisted that a light colored concrete cart path should be replaced with a black asphalt cart path because it looks better but in the summer sun of washington that hot black asphalt kills the adjoining grass trust me a light colored path with green grass looks a lot better than a black path with dead grass trump is also no nature lover the club has approximately a mile of frontage on the potomac river when he purchased the club the river while visible was partially obscured by hundreds of trees on the riverbank well trump took care of that he had crews come in and take down every tree well all but one literally hundreds of trees were cut down over the course of one winter i remember seeing the trees disappear as we played occasional winter rounds when the washington post ran an article about it he had the then soon to be fired club manager take the fall saying it was his decision and that the trees had been removed because they were diseased and hurting the riverbank when the next big potomac flood comes along i hope it takes the entire riverbank minus all those diseased trees with it along with about six golf holes he also removed hundreds of other trees around the golf course to open up sightlines nonetheless for awhile the members had access to two very good golf courses that were well maintained but that wasn t enough for trump because he had a vanity project in mind his goal all along was to get the club to host a significant professional golf tournament after the initial renovation of the one golf course the championship course he invited pga officials to evaluate it for tournament use their conclusion the greens were too flat and easy and the layout was not conducive to the logistics of a big tournament so trump decided to undertake another renovation this one created a superb golf course on the river and a decidedly mediocre mishmash of a leftover golf course on the interior affectionately called trump municipal by members as part of the renovation trump used portions of both golf courses to create a new 18 hole championship course along the full riverfront he added some new holes and re did all the greens to give them more undulation as requested by the pga they still don t have that much undulation it will be interesting to see how the pros play it this weekend along the way he made an impetuous decision before finishing the final routing of the new course to add an island green par 3 hole in place of a short par 4 that he had never liked construction on the new hole started immediately after he made the decision but guess what the new hole did not fit into the final routing of the new course nor did it fit into the leftover course somewhere he would have to get rid of a hole because there were now 37 instead of 36 ultimately he combined the new par 3 with an old par 4 to make a new par 5 hole that makes absolutely no sense and is uniformly hated by all members shortly after the new hole opened trump was at the club and spotted one of the best lady members of the club on that hole he asked her what she thought she very diplomatically said something along the lines of well mr trump it is a very interesting hole i just wish there was a larger landing area to the right along the water for players who need to lay up trump turned red and said if you don t like it you can join another club then stormed off this was pretty typical of his response to any member who did not lavish praise on his decisions in any event the new championship course is indeed tournament worthy it is nearly 8000 yards long with great views of the potomac river and some very challenging holes it is also about an 8 mile walk which is quite long especially in the summer heat with virtually no trees for shade but the other course the riverview is as trump would say about something for which he wasn t responsible a disaster the riverview has three different types of greens it has seven holes on one side of the property with the remaining 11 holes about a quarter mile cart ride away on the other side of the property it is the product of three golf course designers tom fazio for the first seven arthur hills for the 10 of the other 11 and donald trump for the infamous par 5 the starting hole is not near the clubhouse nor is it close to the practice range it is in a word the forgotten course trump doesn t play it it won t host tournaments he just doesn t care kind of like people who rely on obamacare to keep themselves alive trump is quite a character members and caddies have plenty of stories about his cheating on the golf course he is a good golfer but not as good as he would have you believe as he takes any decent length putt and has a vanity handicap no one wants to cross him so he is not called out on his conduct once in the middle of a two day tournament he tried to get the format for the second day changed because he did not think it favored him if he were just the colorful quirky dictatorial owner of a private golf club trump s idiosyncrasies would not be a big deal but he s not now he is president of the united states and he is dangerously delusional i maintain that there is a reason we generally elect people to public office up a chain from local to state to national office it is because we then get a measure of them as they take on more responsibility if trump were running for local office in a small town he would never get elected because voters would see his flaws or if elected he would not retain office for long indeed most of the membership at the club are republicans but very few supported trump s candidacy during the primary campaign and many could not even bear to vote for him in the general election despite their contempt for hillary clinton that is because they know him they d seen him in action and they knew better i m glad to be out of the club i had many great friendships there which i miss and on the occasion of the sr pga tournament at the club i wish all the best to my friends who are still there many of whom are selflessly volunteering countless hours to make the tournament a success i also hope that one day very soon donald trump will return to his role as a colorful quirky private citizen posted by x curmudgeon at 12 50 pm 2 comments friday may 19 2017 how the russia scandal will go down for trump now that an independent prosecutor has been appointed to investigate the trump campaign s ties to russia we can hope to get to the bottom of this in due course it won t happen overnight most likely the probe will take at least a year republicans should welcome the probe if an independent prosecutor clears the trump campaign they re all good if mueller instead finds wrongdoing they can get rid of trump and have pence as president which would be much better for them all around trump would also welcome the appointment of an independent prosecutor if he and his campaign did nothing wrong indeed one of his big problems so far has been the refusal to say he would welcome an investigation that would clear his campaign of wrongdoing in any event where there s smoke there s fire and in the case of trump s campaign there is plenty of smoke i believe the investigation will show that trump s campaign did indeed coordinate with russia and that the coordination began early on during the republican primaries if true that it started during the primaries republicans will be much more willing to dump trump the key player is michael flynn most likely flynn offered to use his contacts with russians to help leverage the trump campaign paul manafort was also undoubtedly involved and it wouldn t be surprising if some of the other clowns in trump s camp roger stone rudy guiliani played a role but flynn is the main man we already know that he had many contacts with the russians the question becomes who those russians were and what they offered to do and also what trump knew trump of course will deny that he knew anything in any scheme like this it is important to protect the boss plausible deniability that was the key in watergate it wasn t bugging dnc hq per se that was the problem but rather whether pres nixon knew about it trump has already hedged his bets stating yesterday that his campaign or at least he himself did not coordinate with the russians note however that trump made flynn his national security adviser despite numerous warnings not to it seems a promise was made or maybe flynn knew too much so in the end it will come down to flynn eventually he will be given immunity in exchange for his testimony about what trump knew i expect that he will then testify that yes of course the boss knew but he didn t want to be informed of any of the details then maybe we can get a serious president posted by x curmudgeon at 4 12 pm 1 comment friday october 21 2016 the early election signs point to hillary many people tend to overlook that these days voting begins several weeks before election day according to data compiled by political scientist michael mcdonald at electproject org nearly 40 of votes in the 2012 presidential election were cast before election day that total could be eclipsed this year although some states have curtailed early voting for political reasons as of this morning according to mcdonald s data more than 4 million people have already voted in this election with early in person voting starting in more and more states that figure will go up rapidly over the next few days states vary widely in the data they report from the early ballots no state of course reports on who the early voters cast their ballots for but some do provide useful demographic information some interesting tidbits from the data so far iowa is a state where donald trump has consistently polled favorably he holds a 3 7 lead over hillary in the polling average for that state but iowans have been voting now for quite a few days and the tilt is heavily democratic so far 235 000 votes have been cast in iowa there were 1 5 million total in the state in 2012 of those 49 are from registered democrats and 32 from republicans in contrast in 2012 42 of absentee ballots were from dems and 32 from republicans of course that doesn t mean hillary is winning or trump is losing the data could and likely will change as additional ballots come in also it may be that traditional blue collar white democrats in iowa are voting for trump so we won t get too excited about the data so far but if i was trump i d be worried if he loses iowa he is likely to go down to a landslide defeat nationally north carolina and georgia provide a demographic breakdown of their early voting data what s interesting here is the gender divide in georgia 433 000 votes have been cast 3 9 million total votes in 2012 of those 56 are from women and 42 from men nationally women make up about 53 of all voters in nc 221 000 ballots have been cast of which 55 are from women and 43 men of course this could just be that women are voting early and men will catch up at some point and it doesn t tell you who they are voting for finally in virginia it is noteworthy that early balloting in democratically strong northern virginia is up 56 over 2012 virginia is probably a lost cause for trump anyway polling has consistently shown a race their that is not close at all posted by x curmudgeon at 10 30 am 1 comment trump lost the election the day he announced his candidacy the election is almost here and barring something very unexpected hillary clinton will be our next president that is pretty surprising given that at the outset of the nomination process a year and a half ago a generic republican easily beat hillary in a hypothetical match up but then donald trump threw his hat in the ring the very day that trump made his campaign announcement he both won the gop nomination and lost the general election as soon as trump made 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