There’s one thing that Trump loves even more than tweeting: golf.
In fact, in 2019 the president spent one in five days at the golf course.
Now, in the middle of a pandemic, Trump has caused controversy by leaving the White House for his golf course in Virginia.
Trump was seen by reporters “in his typical golf wear of white polo shirt and white baseball cap … before he departed the White House” for an undisclosed location. He later arrived at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, where he was pictured playing golf.
Given that the US death toll from Covid-19 is approaching 100,000, people thought it was pretty bad timing for the president to be playing golf.
On Friday Dr Deborah Birx, Trump’s coronavirus adviser, said that there was still “significant virus circulating” in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia.
On social media, people weren't impressed that Trump is playing golf right now.
TRUMP IS PLAYING GOLF RIGHT NOW https://t.co/NCxz1WLAyn— Seth Abramson (@Seth Abramson) 1590271238
Trump playing golf on Saturday. He shot a 97,426 over par. https://t.co/64AynGpbCp— David Mandel (@David Mandel) 1590306466
The list of 100,000 dead juxtaposed with Trump’s round of golf over Memorial Day weekend will live on in infamy. https://t.co/xQaIN7bc6y— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈) 1590275562
Famously, on the campaign trail in 2016 he told supporters: “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”
But Trump has played a lot more than his predecessor Barack Obama, who he often criticised for playing golf too much.