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Donald is golfing and visiting in fly in fly out appearances. Maybe it helps with morale. The orders to do the useful stuff come from other people. Donald is not a very hands on sort of guy. He spends his time tweeting and making inane comments in speeches on Television and the radio and alienating his cabinet and the congressional Republicans.
 

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Donald is golfing and visiting in fly in fly out appearances. Maybe it helps with morale.

I think it is true that the president plays golf, just as most of the recent presidents have done.

He doesnt play as much as Barry did (if we are supposed to be calling presidents by their first names here?). Obama played 333 rounds of golf--or 306 depending on whose report you trust the more--while Trump has played 29 as of this month. But because he owns several golf courses, it is a fact that he has used them as meeting places to conduct presidential business, consult with people, conduct interviews, etc. out of the range of the media. And Obama often took lengthy vacations in order to play golf, which Trump does not do.

The more important thing is that he is fairly called a workaholic when it comes to his job as president. There has been no president in my lifetime who worked more hours every day at the duties of the presidency than the current one...and that's irrespective of whether we favor or oppose his policies.

(As a matter of fact, that's a major reason why he beat Hillary in 2016. While she was off the campaign trail for days at a time, Donald Trump was holding rallies and giving speeches in three or four different states in a single day. I don't remember many candidates doing that in prior years.)
 
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Donald plays golf way more than any predecessor did. Besides he has a lot of time on his hands, he said. So he has to fill it with something he enjoys; like golf. Other competent people can handle the duties of the presidency.
 

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Donald plays golf way more than any predecessor did. Besides he has a lot of time on his hands, he said. So he has to fill it with something he enjoys; like golf. .
Stick to the jabs that could be considered to be at least half-truths. :wink:
 

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I like Donald when he is tweeting and playing golf; at least at those times he can't start a nuclear war (note it is nuclear not nucular). The congress needs to get on with his impeachment. He's a bad president. Even Michael Pence may be better in that role.
 

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I'm sure that you'll be writing the same things about 'Michael' if he should somehow become president.
 

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His name is Michael, you know.

:smirk:

Michael Richard Pence.

But I do have doubts about him in the role of president.
 

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Yeh, I know.

That's why you refer to the current pope as "Jorge" on these forums. (You do, don't you?)
 

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I rarely refer to the pope. But he took a new name as pope. Francis I think. Just like his predecessor took Benedict XVI as a new name. Of course one has to be in the know to understand that, right?

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That's right. It is not his birth certificate name. It's his name now however. But you know that, right? Being a historian and all.
 

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Then its agreed. It is not his birth certificate, i.e. real, name. Just as I said.

You don't object if I call him Jorge, do you?
 

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Then its agreed. It is not his birth certificate, i.e. real, name. Just as I said.

Have you heard of changing one's name by deed poll? Evidently not. Check it up - it'll be an eye opener for you. Legal instruments for a change of name are fairly common, even in the USA.

Popes take a papal name upon their accession to office; for example, Jorge M. Bergoglio adopted the name Francis.
 

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I'll put it this way, MC--

It's not a very strong argument when you say to me, in effect: "It's not right to do if it happens to be MY ox (the pope) who's being gored"



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I'll put it this way--

"It's not right to do if it happens to be MY ox that's being gored" isn't a very strong argument.

So you think of Michael Richard Pence as your ox? I bet you don't really mean that. You're trying to use an analogy, right?

:smirk:
 
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