September 8, 2019: Golfing Amid Gore

 

9/8/19: For the love of god, how often does this president play golf! Once again, Trump spends Sunday on the links. This follows on the heels of his last round of golf, way back on…Saturday. 

He’s a golfing machine.

 

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Trump would be the hero of his plan

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Also, a deal-making machine! Trump hatched another great deal which he was planning to close over the weekend. Here was his plan. He would invite representatives of the Taliban to Camp David for peace talks. (You’d think he might want them to stay at one of his plush clubs – like everyone else he meets – but no.) If all went well, he would close the deal with the killers who made it possible for Osama bin Laden to wreak havoc on our nation eighteen years ago. 

Most importantly, Trump would be the hero of his plan. Trump would end a long, expensive war. Trump would brag about ending a long, expensive war. Especially, the expensive part. 

Trump has no empathy for the dead or maimed. 

Best of all, there would be reporters and cameras. Those reporters and cameras would focus on Trump. Trump would love watching “President Trump” close the deal. 

And, lo, it came to pass. Trump invited the Taliban to come to Camp David and sit down, hands still crimson with innocent blood, three days before the eighteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Sgt. First Class Elias A. Barreto-Ortiz

 

There was one giant, gory fly in the soup of Trump’s plan. The Taliban could not resist doing what the Taliban does. The Taliban kept on blowing innocent human beings to bits. In August they sent a suicide bomber to a wedding and he or she blew him- or herself up, killing 63, injuring 182. In July, they bombed the University of Kabul, killing 10 students and maiming 33. Another bombing killed an American, Sgt. First Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz, the third American to die in Afghanistan in a week. The Art of the Deal president was stumped. 

With that, the secret meeting was canceled. Trump headed for the links, instead, and squeezed in another round of golf.