November 24, 2017: Today and Every Day is "Hypocritegate"

 

11/24/17: Trump wants us to understand he’s hard at work the day after Thanksgiving. His first tweet Friday is a complaint aimed at NFL players who dare protest during the playing of the National Anthem. “Can you believe that the disrespect for our Country, our Flag, our Anthem continues without penalty to the players,” he asks. One player who particularly irks Trump is Marshawn Lynch, who was targeted for a special Trump tweet attack earlier in the week. 

And what is Lynch protesting against? 

See if you can guess from this t-shirt Lynch is regularly seen wearing. Then see if you can guess what amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right of players to protest without penalty. 

 

Sixteen minutes later, in a second tweet, Trump says he plans to talk to the leader of Turkey and clean up the “mess I inherited in the Middle East.” 

Other presidents who might have squealed about problems they inherited (assuming they had had the maturity of five-year-olds): James K. Polk (inherited messes on the Mexican and Canadian borders) and Abraham Lincoln (mess at Fort Sumter). Also inheriting messes: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman (Great Depression; World War II), Dwight D. Eisenhower (Korean War), a whole string of presidents (Vietnam War), Obama (Great Recession) and every occupant of the Oval Office since 1967 (the same Middle East mess that Trump is whining about now). 

Obama inherited two wars.

 

At any rate, the job of running America is so difficult Trump decides he needs time for himself and hits the links. “After Turkey call,” he admits in another tweet, “I will be heading over to Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, to play golf (quickly) with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson.” 

Trump, who once lambasted his predecessor for playing what he said was way too much golf, has, for those keeping score, been playing way more golf.  

(Quickly.)  

According to Golf News Net, Trump has already spent at least 79 days since taking office at his golf courses. 

Perhaps you’ve forgotten; but Citizen Trump frequently attacked President Obama for coming from Kenya, stealing the presidency, and hitting the links instead of working hard for the American people. It turns out the pace at which his predecessor played golf was half of Hypocrite-in-Chief Donald J. Trump’s.  

Also: Trump eventually had to admit what every sane American knew. Obama was born in America.

 

 

Hypocrites on the right, with more than a hint of racism. 

You remember those days: When hypocrites on the right, including Trump himself, accused the black guy of being lazy (an old-fashioned racist trope) and always jetting off to vacation and play golf. 

Or, as Fox News pundit Greg Guttfield angrily reported in the fall of 2014, “As the virus struts, the president putts.” 

Also, we fondly remember when Obama put Dijon mustard on his burger! Boy, that made the haters at Fox News hate. 

And there was Tansuitgate.

Right-wingers were outraged when Obama wore a tan suit.

 

And Vacationgate! 

And Golfgate, a variant of Vacationgate!! 

And Fist-Bumpgate? 

And there was the “weakness” shown by Obama when he wore a bicycle helmet while riding a bike? Yes, Helmetgate!

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LET’S BE HONEST. For Donald J. Trump, every day is Hypocritegate. The man in incapable of shame.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE (2/15/2021): We know now that Trump played almost as many rounds of golf in one term, as Obama played in two. As for Greg Guttfield’s angry comment in 2014, that one didn’t age well at all.  “As the virus struts, the president putts,” could have been the story of Trump’s approach to the COVID-19 catastrophe.