This bio of Trump would be either very funny or sad depending on your viewpoint, if it were not that he wields tremendous power. The sports reporter and avid golfer documents how Trump sees almost everything from international relations to day-to-day life through the lens of golf and how it impacts his game that he excels at cheating in.
He sees no contradiction in calling climate change a hoax while building a tall 800 meter wall to protect his Irish golf course from rising sea levels to the devastation of local farmers.
The recurring theme in all of Trump’s boasts about his 18 golf courses is his use of superlatives to describe them, his cheating whether or not he is caught and his latent lies about his scores. The author traces this back to his childhood and the imperative of always being first. His financial dealings also come under fire as he blatantly lies about their exclusivity. Even his relationship with women is tied into the world of golf as he arranges to have only beautiful young women working at his resorts and clubhouses.
Stiffing almost every contractor he ever employed, it seems ironic that he may finally meet justice for actually paying for a service that was provided at his Florida course, that of Stormy Daniels.
“ ‘ Discrete’ and Trump go together like ‘gasoline’ and ‘soup’.”
The Trump on display is an egocentric, amoral, totally self-centred psychopath. It would be easy to ignore such individuals except that he also wields unprecedented power. It is hard for me to understand why millions of otherwise rational U.S. voters cannot understand that, to the peril of all of us.
7.5/10.
Thanks, Janet.
The Passionate Reader 