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− | {{Quotation|Compiling the net worth valuations for billionaires requires a huge amount of legwork and estimation, but determining their golf handicaps is a lot easier and far more precise. That's thanks to the U.S. Golf Association's online database. [...] One of the the lowest we saw: Donald J. Trump, who controls a few courses himself, at 4.4. (''Forbes'', March 26, 2007) | + | {{Quotation|Compiling the net worth valuations for billionaires requires a huge amount of legwork and estimation, but determining their golf handicaps is a lot easier and far more precise. That's thanks to the U.S. Golf Association's online database. [...] One of the the lowest we saw: Donald J. Trump, who controls a few courses himself, at 4.4. (''Forbes'', March 26, 2007)}} |
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+ | {{Quotation|One morning in the mid-1990s, Mark Mulvoy was on the sixth hole of Long Island's Garden City Golf Club with Donald Trump when the skies opened, and they ducked for cover under a nearby awning. The rain let up a few moments later, and Mulvoy, then the managing editor of Sports Illustrated, returned to the green. When he got there, he found a ball 10 feet from the pin that he didn't remember seeing before the storm. | ||
+ | "Who the hell's ball is this?" he said. | ||
+ | "That's me," the real estate mogul said, according to Mulvoy. | ||
+ | "Donald, give me a f---ing break," Mulvoy recalls telling him. "You've been hacking away in the ... weeds all day. You do not lie there." | ||
+ | "Ahh, the guys I play with cheat all the time," he recalls Trump replying. "I have to cheat just to keep up with them." | ||
+ | It's a story that the current Republican front-runner hotly denies. "I don't even know who he is," Trump said when asked about Mulvoy's account."I don't drop balls, I don't move balls. I don't need to." (''Washington Post'', September 5, 2015)}} | ||
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Revision as of 04:40, 5 April 2017
Donald Trump is President of the United States. Trump holds the unfortunate distinction of winning the Presidency through the Electoral College despite a thumping loss of 2.9 million votes (a 2.1% margin).[1] So far, Trump has been consistently setting records as the most unpopular President in the history of polling.[2] But hey - if you like him... congrats. He's your president, and ours too.
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Childhood and Family
“ “He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” recalled his father, who packed off his obstreperous teen-age son to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson for his high school education. According to some of his peers in the industry, Donald Trump has not really changed much from those boyhood days. (New York Times, August 7, 1983) ”
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“More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history. The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (CNN, December 22, 2016”
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“Trump’s current rating is a low not just for Trump’s presidency so far, but also for this point in any recent presidency. We’re on day 69 of the Trump administration, and his net approval rating — -11.1 — is by far the lowest of any of the past 13 presidents at this point. (Five Thirty Eight, March 29, 2017)” - ↑