Apparently Trump Pressured Lindsey Graham To Tell Reporters That Heโ€™s Really Good At Golf And We Have Never Laughed At Him Harder

Oh, you GOTTA be kidding me!!!


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Recently, ex-President Donald Trump released a pretty infamous statement, in which he bragged his brains out about the alleged hole-in-one he hit on the golf course while supposedly playing against a bunch of world-renowned professionals โ€” before going on to say in the same statement how much he โ€œhatesโ€ people who brag, of course, and claimed that he is actually a โ€œvery modest individual.โ€

If Donald Trump is a โ€œvery modest individualโ€ then Iโ€™m a world-champion opera singer โ€” and I canโ€™t carry a tune in a bucket if my life depended on it.

And apparently, Trumpโ€™s so-called โ€œmodestyโ€™ reached a seriously pathetic low at one point when he allegedly prodded Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham to tell some reporters about how good he is at the game of golf, according to a new tell-all book.

This interaction reportedly went down when Graham happened to call the then-president while he was in the middle of an interview with two reporters.

According to the upcoming book, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for Americaโ€™s Future, Trump told Graham while on the phone with him in front of the reporters, โ€œMost importantly, would you tell them one thing: Can Trump play golf?โ€

Excerpts of the forthcoming tell-all obtained by the Washington Post reveal that Lindsey responded like the good little lapdog heโ€™s always been, immediately and dutifully telling the journalists on the other end of the phone, โ€œIf you donโ€™t believe it, go play with him.โ€

Graham has notoriously been swinging from one end of the spectrum to the other when it comes to Donald Trump for years now. During Donaldโ€™s 2016 candidacy, the South Carolina GOP lawmaker was one of the real estate โ€œmogulโ€™sโ€ biggest, loudest critics, regularly warning the American people that the former Apprentice โ€œstarโ€ would destroy this nation from the White House, and we would rightfully deserve it if we voted him in. However, Graham immediately dropped to licking Donaldโ€™s shoes as soon as that actually happened. Lindsey only broke with Trump again on the heels of the violent January 6th Capitol attack, stating, โ€œcount me outโ€ from the Senate floor, only to sink back down to sycophant level once more, following Donaldโ€™s second impeachment and subsequent election loss.

During the phone call mentioned above, Trump was actually talking to the authors of This Will Not Pass, Post reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns. The then-president put Senator Graham on speakerphone.

โ€œTell them about the Trump endorsements,โ€ Trump allegedly ordered of Graham. The SC lawmaker obeyed instantly: โ€œPresident Trumpโ€™s endorsement is the most consequential endorsement of any politician Iโ€™ve seen in my 20-something years.โ€

Grahamโ€™s praises for Trumpโ€™s endorsements and his gold game came a mere month after the infamous, deadly Capitol insurrection that Lindsey claimed to condemn.

It wasnโ€™t that long ago that Sportswriter Rick Reilly penned a whole entire book that explained how Donald Trumpโ€™s golf game can tell a person all they need to know about him, his integrity, and his character.

โ€œHeโ€™ll cheat you on the course and then buy you lunch,โ€ Reilly said in his book.

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Andrea Thompson
Andrea has written political opinion stories for over a decade with a passion for center-left policies. Andrea is no longer a writer at Political Tribune and her X account is here: https://x.com/theliberalmommy

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