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Donald Trump’s relationship with golf is longstanding. Symbolically, his «headquarters» is located at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. It is, of course, not the only one he owns. It is well known that the current President of the United States is the «director» of a network of some twenty courses, all of the highest luxury and quality, in the United States and also in places like Ireland, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico.

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He has occasionally suffered setbacks in his attempts to expand his empire, such as the popular uprising in Balmedie, Scotland, but, as usual, he refuses to acknowledge any setbacks, aside from calling his critics «losers.» He referred to the Beatles as such last week.

The fact is that, in addition to being a businessman, Trump is also an accomplished golfer. In this regard, a parallel could be drawn with President Eisenhower, also a great golfer: he won World War II in Europe, and Trump has repeatedly proclaimed his victory in the current war—undeclared but effective—with Iran, but that is not the matter at hand.

The fact is that this weekend Donald added two new trophies to his record: the tournament at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and the club’s veterans’ tournament. In the first, at 80 years old, he recorded a spectacular score of 70 strokes. This is not surprising, however, because it is his second consecutive victory, and the White House announced in 2015 that he had achieved a score of 69 strokes that year.

No one denies that Donald Trump is a good golfer. However, many point out that, aside from the fact that he himself overestimates his abilities, he has no qualms about cheating. That’s the thesis of golf expert Rick Reilly, who in 2019 published the book ‘Commander in Cheat: How golf explains Trump’. Reilly points out that «when it comes to cheating, [Trump] is an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10.»