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Daily Mail: Footage of Donald Trump ‘cheating’ on the golf course goes viral

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With President Donald Trump over in Europe, the real-estate magnate decided to visit some of his golf courses and play a few rounds of the sport he loves the most.

But a camera captured a moment where one of the caddies in Trump’s party decided to help him out more than what is allowed.

Video taken from inside a building showed the moment the US president rolled up in a golf cart left of the fairway at Turnberry – with a bunker in front of him and some light fescue to his left.

As two caddies walked by, the camera captured one of them stopping, bending down slightly, and dropping a ball in front of the president.

Trump got out of his golf cart with a club and approached the dropped ball in what appeared to be an attempt to hit it. The video stops before he takes a swing.

The clip went viral on social media, with multiple commenters calling out the 79-year-old for ‘cheating’.

‘Who needs a foot wedge when you have a personal ball dropper???’ wrote one commenter on X, formerly Twitter.

Another account posted, ‘Him and Kim Jong Un would be INSANE scramble partners’.

One account which appears to belong to a PGA professional commented, ‘Such a perfect metaphor for our Commander-in-Cheat.’ 

‘Wild…Looks like I need these fellas as Caddies with the way I hit it anymore,’ another post joked.

If Trump did indeed hit that ball, it’s not the first time that he’s been accused of ‘cheating’ in the past.

Earlier this year, film star Samuel L. Jackson accused him of cheating when the pair played a round together. 

Asked who the better golfer was, the Pulp Fiction actor said: ‘Oh, I am, for sure. I don’t cheat.’

Taking to social media to reply to Jackson, Trump responded by saying he had never played with him on a course. 

Jackson’s opinion is one echoed by fellow actor Anthony Anderson, as he accused Trump of cheating back in 2016. 

During an appearance on the Late Night With Seth Meyers that year, Anderson said: ‘Trump is a great golfer. I’m not going to say Trump cheats. His caddy cheats for him.’

Asked on whether he saw Trump cheat with his own eyes, Anderson replied: ‘Oh yes, several times. Several times’. 

He added: ‘I mis-hit a ball – it hooked a little left about 20 yards. Trump hit the exact same shot but went 20 yards further left than mine.

‘I could not find my ball in this trash. Trump’s ball had the fluffiest lie in the middle of the fairway. 

‘Like I say, I didn’t see Trump cheat because he was on the tee-box with me, but his ball was right there in the middle of the fairway.’

They follow claims made by sports journalist Rick Reilly, who claimed in 2019 that Trump made second attempts at a shot for no good reason and took credit for other players’ shots.

Writing for the Sunday Times, he said caddies had given Trump the nickname ‘Pele’ because he would kick the ball so often to move it to a better position.

Describing his opponent’s style of play, he said: ‘To say Donald Trump cheats is like saying Michael Phelps swims.

‘Trump doesn’t just cheat at golf. He cheats like a three-card monte dealer. He throws it, boots it and moves it. 

‘Whether you’re his pharmacist or Tiger Woods, if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat.’

Footage of Donald Trump ‘cheating’ on the golf course goes viral
With President Donald Trump over in Europe, the real-estate magnate decided to visit some of his golf courses and play a few rounds of the sport he loves the most.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/golf/article-14945449/donald-trump-cheating-golf-scotland-turnberry.html

Trump is the first AI slop president. That’s not good for democracy.

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The White House has become a superspreader of AI-generated videos.

Franklin Roosevelt mastered the use of radio. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan were top of the game on TV. And Donald Trump is the first AI slop president.

Since January, Trump’s administration has used artificial intelligence to churn out a steady stream of fake images on social media, from alligators in ICE hats to crying members of Congress,while the official White House account on X has used it to portray the president as Superman, the pope and a villain from “Star Wars.”

Earlier this week, Trump used his account on his personal social media platform, Truth Social, to share an AI-generated clip showing former President Barack Obama being forcibly detained by the FBI. As bizarre as it was, it fit in with his other nonsensical memes, which included various Democrats in orange prison jumpsuits as the “Shady Bunch” and a fake-looking video of a woman in a bikini catching a snake with her bare hands.

There’s a term for someone using social media this way that can’t be repeated in polite company, so let’s just call it slop-posting. It’s usually done by a 14-year-old boy, or someone who still acts like one, and it’s mostly just absurd or mildly offensive. It’s not harmless, necessarily, but it’s mostly just lame trolling.

To suggest that our President has the maturity of a 14-year-old boy is generous. Let’s not insult the kids, most of whom are more mature and better behaved than King Donald.

But when the president does it, it’s something else entirely. Even in the most harmless AI-generated memes, Trump is muddying the waters on what is real, encouraging his supporters to believe everything and nothing. Did a woman in a bikini really catch a snake? Is Obama really going to be arrested? To a Trump supporter steeped in these memes, the answer may not even matter.

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Opinion | Trump is the first AI slop president. That’s not good for democracy.
The White House has become a superspreader of AI-generated videos.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-obama-arrest-ai-slop-video-truth-social-rcna221041

AFP: Balloons, bubbles, tear gas: LA anti-Trump protests turn chaotic

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For hours, thousands of people in Los Angeles peacefully celebrated their defiance of US President Donald Trump Saturday with music, marching, bubbles and balloons — then police unexpectedly moved in, and chaos and confusion broke out.

The demonstration — part of the nationwide “No Kings” day of protests across the country — was by far the largest in more than a week of protests ignited by anger against immigration raids the Trump administration has been carrying out across the country’s second-largest city. 

Like those before it, Saturday’s had been largely peaceful. A march that began in the morning had finished, with demonstrators milling about on a sunny afternoon as the scene took on the air of a street festival. 

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Then police unexpectedly began moving people away from the area, igniting confusion and anger among demonstrators caught off guard and unsure of where to go.

Police on horseback pushed crowds back as law enforcement fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades hours ahead of an 8:00 pm (0300 GMT) curfew. 

A police spokeswoman later told local TV channel KTLA that a “small group of agitators” had begun throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers, prompting the decision to order the crowd to disperse.

Balloons, bubbles, tear gas: LA anti-Trump protests turn chaotic

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/balloons-bubbles-tear-gas-la-anti-trump-protests-turn-chaotic/ar-AA1GJd8h

Huffington Post: George Conway Burns ‘Loon’ Trump With A Scathing New Nickname After Parade Flop

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Conway said Trump was hoping for the kind of spectacle seen in North Korea under dictator Kim Jong Un, then offered the president a tweak on that name: Kim Jong Loon.

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Other Trump critics also compared the event to the type usually seen in places such as North Korea, with former Secretary of State and 2016 campaign rival Hillary Clinton calling it a “low-energy Dear Leader parade.”

The day before the parade, California Gov. Gavin Newsom also made a North Korea comparison: 

George Conway Burns ‘Loon’ Trump With A Scathing New Nickname After Parade Flop
The conservative attorney compared Trump to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-conway-trump-kim-parade_n_684fd2a0e4b0dde371e64404

‘Trump’s $45M taxpayer-funded parade embarrassment was so pitiful it sickened Melania’

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President Trump’s birthday parade has been branded a ‘grotesque birthday party for an ageing man’ – and even wife Melania Trump ‘couldn’t stomach it’

Donald Trump’s ridiculous military parade was never about the troops.

It wasn’t about patriotism, unity, or honouring the 250th anniversary of the US Army, no matter how many flags were waved or tanks rolled by.

It was about one thing only: Donald J. Trump and his obsessive, delusional need to feel worshipped.

Billed as a grand celebration of America’s armed forces, this taxpayer-funded farce was really a grotesque birthday party for an ageing man who’s spent his life confusing adoration with leadership.

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The tanks, the troops, the blaring anthems – all orchestrated not to salute American service but to feed Trump’s insatiable ego as he marked 79 years of being the world’s biggest narcissist.

This wasn’t a show of strength. It was a pitiful attempt to copy the authoritarian pageantry of his role models, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un – leaders Trump has fawned over while undermining American democracy at every turn.

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While America burns, literally and politically, Trump played emperor on a hollow throne.

Just hours after an elected official was assassinated in her own home, and as millions of Americans rallied in the streets under the banner of “No Kings,” Trump paraded down Constitution Avenue like some bloated monarch.

And where were the throngs of adoring fans he so desperately craves? Not in Washington, DC.

Only a few thousand bothered to turn up.

‘Trump taxpayer-funded parade embarrassment was so pitiful it sickened Melania’
President Trump’s birthday parade has been branded a ‘grotesque birthday party for an ageing man’ – and even wife Melania Trump ‘couldn’t stomach it’

https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/trumps-45m-taxpayer-funded-parade-1210226

MSNBC: The giant Trump banner at the USDA is another sign the U.S. is sliding into autocracy

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It may be small and petty, but these changes are part of the erosion of democratic norms, softening people up for potentially more authoritarian behavior.

Many strongmen also love to display giant photos of themselves wherever they can. If you ever go to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, you’ll be greeted with a portrait of Mao Zedong. Mao founded the People’s Republic of China, and he served as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party for more than 30 years. His portrait is about 19½ feet tall and 15 feet wide, and it weighs about 3,000 pounds. It’s been hanging over the gate leading into the Forbidden City since 1949.

If you travel farther to the east, you’ll find something similar in North Korea. In the country’s capital of Pyongyang, there’s an area called Kim Il Sung Square, where you’ll find large portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the great leader and the dear leader, respectively, overlooking the plaza at all times as people go about their daily lives.

When Putin visited the country last year, North Koreans gave him a warm welcome by plastering his photo everywhere. They even temporarily put up a humongous portrait of Putin next to one of Kim Jong Un during a welcome ceremony.

Neither China nor North Korea invented this idea. They’ve taken their cues from Joseph Stalin, the former brutal ruler of the Soviet Union. He liked to have portraits of himself displayed in public and lofted by his supporters during parades.

That practice continues in many other countries where strongmen rule today. You see it in places like Egypt, where the face of its president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is inescapable. His mug is on billboards and banners, plastered on buildings and hanging along the roadside. That’s especially true ahead of an election, and it’s no wonder he’s been able to easily win three terms in office. (Not to mention the fact that Egypt doesn’t exactly have free and fair elections in the first place.)

In Iran, you’ll find an abundance of murals, posters and portraits of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He’s often depicted with the country’s late leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Their images are displayed everywhere — at mosques, in malls and even on the sides of some buildings.

And now, something like that is happening in the United States, too. Last week, a giant banner with Donald Trump’s official portrait was displayed on the United States Department of Agriculture building in Washington, D.C., alongside a similar banner featuring Abraham Lincoln.

Hail, Donald! Long live the King!

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-usda-portrait-road-from-to-authoritarianism-rcna207709