'Obama better get off the golf course!' CNN tees off with supercut as Trump works on swing
CNN unloaded a devastating supercut of clips of Donald Trump declaring on the campaign trail he'd never golf because he'd be so busy — as the president once again leaves Washington, D.C., to hit the links.
As markets continued nosediving due to his steep tariffs, Trump departed the nation's capital and arrived at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday morning. The president planned to attend a $1 million-a-plate fundraising dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate Friday evening and host a LIV Golf tournament at his Doral property over the weekend.
According to TrumpGolfTrack.com, Trump spent 19 days golfing over his first 74 days in office, accounting for 25% of his second term.
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But CNN noted that during his candidacy for the 2016 election, the president repeatedly attacked former President Barrack Obama for hitting the greens.
Abby Phillip, anchor of CNN's "NewsNight," led off her show by repeating a quote from a White House official that "Donald Trump doesn't give a f---" about the spiraling markets.
"And it appears to be true," she continued. "As 401(k)s and companies suffered today, Trump and his allies, including many of whom cheered him on in the Rose Garden event, were MIA. The House is in recess, and as for Trump himself, he spent the day working on his golf swing."
Philip called the juxtaposition "interesting considering what he's said about Democratic presidents."
The network then played a supercut of Trump repeatedly bashing Obama for golfing while in the White House.
"Obama, it was reported today, played 250 rounds of golf," Trump rails at a December 2015 speech.
"Everything's executive order," Trump said in an October 2016 clip. "Because he doesn't have enough time because he's playing so much golf."
"Obama better get off the golf course and get down there," Trump demands in an August 2016 clip of a Trump rally.
In another clip that month, Trump declared, "I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf."
After several similar clips, CNN played a February 2016 clip of Trump saying, "If I were in the White House, I don't think I'd ever see Turnberry again. I don't think I'd ever see Doral again."
That same month, he insisted he would "not be playing much golf" if he won the election. The Washington Post reported, however, that Trump likely played 261 rounds of golf during his first term as president.
"This is just an estimate because, unlike Obama, his team often wouldn’t report whether he was playing golf at his properties. If accurate, though, that’s a round every 5.6 days. By contrast, Obama played 333 rounds of golf — over twice as many years. That’s about once every 8.8 days," the Post analysis found.