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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1127932)	3/31/2019 10:22:26 AM
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1127932)	3/31/2019 10:23:04 AM
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1127932)	3/31/2019 2:07:13 PM
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LOL You really are a sensitive loser. .

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1127932)	3/31/2019 2:28:19 PM
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@MikeBates Trump, March 28: “And sometime over the next two weeks I will be going to a certain place which I won't tell you now because they will be waiting for me. I will be going to a certain place and we are going to be showing you vast sections of brand new beautiful walls.” Can’t wait. Here is the Great Wall of Trump and his Great Wall of Chocolate Cake:

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1127932)	3/31/2019 2:30:34 PM
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For Trump, golf is like everything else in life. He cheats ... stupidly and brazenly. ...... “To say ‘Donald Trump cheats’ is like saying ‘Michael Phelps swims,'” writes Rick Reilly in the new book “ Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump” (Hachette Book Group), out Tuesday. “He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they aren’t. He cheats whether you like it or not. He cheats because that’s how he plays golf … if you’re playing golf with him, he’s going to cheat.” Reilly, a former Sports Illustrated columnist who has played with Trump in the past, spoke to dozens of players — both amateur and professional — to recount some of the president’s worst cons on the course, starting with his declared handicap of 2.8. In layman’s terms, the lower the handicap, the better the player. Jack Nicklaus, winner of a record 18 major golf titles and generally considered the greatest golfer in the history of the game, has a handicap of 3.4. Nicklaus’ handicap is listed on the same Golf Handicap and Information Network website used by Trump, where players post their scores. Enlarge ImagePresident Trump with Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.Twitter“If Trump is a 2.8,” writes Reilly, “Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter.” Shortly after he became president, Trump played with Tiger Woods, the current world No. 1 Dustin Johnson and the veteran PGA Tour pro Brad Faxon. Given the quality and profile of his companions, you might have thought Trump would have been on his best behavior. Not so. On one hole, Trump dunked a shot into the lake, but as his opponents weren’t looking he simply dropped another ball — and then hit that into the water, too. “So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green,” recalls Faxon. The actor Samuel L. Jackson has also witnessed the underhanded methods Trump employs, according to Reilly. “We clearly saw him hook a ball into a lake at Trump National [Bedminster, New Jersey],” he says, “and his caddy told him he found it!” Enlarge ImageGetty ImagesThe boxer Oscar De La Hoya and rocker Alice Cooper have also seen the same shenanigans first hand, while LPGA player Suzann Pettersen, another victim, thinks it’s all down to his caddy “since no matter how far into the woods he hits the ball, it’s in the middle of the fairway when we get there.” And Trump doesn’t just tamper with his own balls. During a game with Mike Tirico before Trump was elected, the former ESPN football announcer hit the shot of his life, a 230-yard 3-wood towards an elevated green he couldn’t see. But he knew it was close. When he got to the putting green, however, Tirico’s ball was nowhere to be seen. Instead, it was 50 feet left of the hole in a bunker. Enlarge ImageDonald Trump drives a golf buggy during his visits to his Scottish golf course in 2015.Getty ImagesIt made no sense — until Trump’s caddy caught up with him after the round. “Trump’s caddy came up to me and said, ‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5?’” Tirico says. “‘It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it in the bunker. I watched him do it.’” Even Trump’s golf courses lie. As the owner of 14 golf clubs and with his name on another five, Trump has, according to Reilly, been known to wildly exaggerate their standing in course rankings, overvalue them and even play fast and loose with their locations. At Trump Washington at Lowes Island, there’s a Civil War monument (bearing Trump’s name, obviously) between the 14th and 15th holes, reminding golfers of how many soldiers, from North and South, died at that very spot. It’s a nice touch, even though several Civil War historians have confirmed that no battle took place anywhere near the memorial. ..... nypost.com