By Conover Kennard
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Just as drug addicts
and alcoholics tend to be in denial of their disease, former reality show star
Donald Trump does not think he has a problem.
The alleged president has not addressed
opioid addiction which is sweeping across the U.S., and that’s probably because
he, too, suffers from a type of addiction and remains in denial.
Donald Trump
needs treatment, but that would mean he’d have to take a leave of absence from
his job.
The amateur president has spent 31 days of his time in office visiting
at least one of his properties, including 19 visits to his golf clubs. He’s
been on the job for only 100 days.
In contrast, former President Barack Obama
only hit the golf course once during the same amount of time in office. Obama’s
first golf game was on April 26th, 2009.
Still yet, as addicts
do, Trump defended his frequent weekend trips to his luxury resort and
properties, saying he does not care about golfing as much as people might think
he does, according to The Hill.
“I have a lot of property. So if I go to my clubs like in New Jersey, they’ll say, ‘Oh he is going to play golf.’ I am not going to play golf,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News. “I couldn’t care less about golf.”
Well, he sure did care
when Obama played golf, though. In fact, there are dozens of rage-tweets from
Trump about Obama playing golf.
“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than Carter
And now that Trump holds that job, he now
tweets this rationalization:
“But I have a place there that costs almost nothing because its hundreds of acres and security and they don’t have to close up streets.”
What Trump means is
that it costs him “nothing.” We, the taxpayers, though, are
paying big time. It costs us about $3 million a pop every time he visits his
Mar-a-Lago resort.
Meanwhile, every visit to a Trump-owned property promotes it
and that means there’s a conflict of interest as he profits from the
presidency.
Trump did say that he
feels “a little guilty” going back to his Trump Tower residence in New York
because of all the expenses that are associated with each trip.
But, he didn’t mention the costs to taxpayers having to foot the bill for having several White Houses, instead of one.
For example, the security for Melania Trump in New York reportedly costs the city’s Police Department between $127,000 and $146,000 a day to protect her and her son. The Secret Service had to request an additional $60 million in funding to protect Trump and his family.
But, he didn’t mention the costs to taxpayers having to foot the bill for having several White Houses, instead of one.
For example, the security for Melania Trump in New York reportedly costs the city’s Police Department between $127,000 and $146,000 a day to protect her and her son. The Secret Service had to request an additional $60 million in funding to protect Trump and his family.
“I love New York, but
going back is very expensive for the country because they close up Fifth Avenue
and they close up 56th Street … and I always feel a little bit guilty when I go
there,” he said.
Trump said he does not
want to be perceived as “lazy” but noted that he prefers to visit his other
properties because they are not as expensive to secure. But that's not true - they are expensive to
secure. Trump’s frequent visits to his Florida resort have been a financial burden on the county.
“It would be much
better if people would understand that I could go other places that I have,”
Trump said. “But then they hit me for relaxing. And I don’t want to be known as
a person that relaxes because I am working hard and I am working hard for the
people.”
Addiction, whether it
be from drugs, alcohol, sex or golfing, is not a prejudiced disease. It can
affect you whether you are black, white, Orange, rich or poor, pay your taxes,
or if you try to hide your taxes from the public because you pay nothing at
all.
Author Conover Kennard makes tea partiers
cry as a hobby. She was Commander of Jade Helm15 during the failed takeover of
the South. She's also one of the biggest arseholes on Twitter. At night, she
can be found drinking Conservative tears while pulling off the wings of flies
just because she can. She is the founder of a Marxist, Commie, Maoist,
Socialist site and has contributed to several other sites, blah blah blah. She
is an awful person but she doesn't like to brag about that.