We’re guessing that The First Duffer will be at the Virginia Trump National golf course Sunday since he made a thoroughly strange commencement speech at Liberty U.
Unlike those who have taken to vandalizing Trump golf course property, a new tactic is to organize flash mobs.
Hundreds of demonstrators spelled out the word “RESIST!” at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California on Saturday, as a protest against President Trump.
Trump spent last weekend at his Bedminster golf club, where he was said to have made phone calls and held meetings while making no public appearances. He said it was cheaper for taxpayers for him to spend the weekend in New Jersey than at Trump Tower in New York City
Will summer White House be in N.J.?
With temperatures in Palm Beach already in the mid-80s, officials in Somerset County NJ are bracing for the possibility Donald Trump with switch his weekend White House northward.
...Trump may have politicised golf, but the sport has always been culturally contentious. Its associations with whiteness and gender-exclusive clubhouses are long-standing; the recent Oscar-winning documentary OJ: Made in America reveals how some members of the private Riviera golf club in Los Angeles balked when OJ Simpson, even with all his money and status, joined the club, long before his fall from grace...
...Putting aside the issue of hypocrisy (Trump is entitled to downtime; the issue is duplicity; last year he told voters that, if elected, he wouldn’t visit his golf courses again, instead remaining in the White House to “work my ass off”), why golf? Despite the inelegance of the word in the mouth – like gulping down a fly (“gol…”) before gearing up for a lingering expletive (“ffff”) – golf, with its associations of wealth and exclusivity, is the preferred sport of the business executive. As games go, it’s on-brand for brand Trump. Small wonder he owns 17 courses.
But there are also reasons to do with game design as to why golf is the preferred sport of older men. There is no great need for athleticism (“golf is a good walk spoiled”, so the old quip goes). A wag might say that it’s the ideal sport for guys who have spent their lives trying to fit things into holes. Then there’s the downtime between those percussive bursts of activity – space for socialising or deal-making.
Jenova Chen, the designer of the video game Journey, once told me: “Playground games teach us about our bodies and basic social dynamics. Teenagers move on to games like soccer and basketball that teach teamwork. But people over 35 play golf, a game that isn’t really about the game so much as the social connections.”