President Donald Trump requested former President Barack Obama to play golf with him whereas he was seated subsequent to his predecessor at Jimmy Carter’s funeral again in January, in line with a brand new e-book by three high political reporters.
Trump reportedly invited Obama to play golf with him, “engaging him with descriptions” of his “programs all over the world,” per Axios, which shared particulars from “2024” by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf.
The dialog between Trump and Obama — which appeared pleasant at occasions and noticed the previous president laughing at something Trump said — was the middle of debate and hypothesis earlier this 12 months.
It’s unclear if the chuckle arrived throughout Trump’s golf discuss though the president beforehand acknowledged that the chat “did look very pleasant.”
“It did look very pleasant, I need to say. I didn’t understand how pleasant it regarded. I noticed it in your great community just a bit whereas in the past earlier than I got here in and I stated, ‘Boy, they appear to be two those that like one another,’” Trump later informed reporters.
He continued, “And we most likely do. We now have just a little totally different philosophies, proper? However we most likely do. I don’t know. We simply obtained alongside.”
Trump would go on to mock the conversation just days later by posting a doctored video of the chat on his Truth Social platform.
Obama has but to deal with his discuss with Trump, who as soon as peddled a racist “birther” conspiracy principle that Obama wasn’t born in the US.
Trump’s golf outings have cost taxpayers at least $38 million up to now in his second time period and he’s pushed wild claims about his sport, the latter of which was tackled in sportswriter Rick Reilly’s 2019 e-book, “Commander In Cheat.”
