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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Reilly pokes extra holes in Trump’s claims than there are sand traps on all of his classes mixed. It’s by way of turns fun and alarming.” — The New Yorker
“Golfing is the backbone of this surprising, wildly funny guide, however humanity is its flesh and spirit.” — Chicago Solar-Times
“Each and every one in all Trump’s such so much disgusting features surfaces in Golfing.” — The Ringer
An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump’s appalling conduct relating to Golfing — off and on the golf green — and what it unearths approximately his personality.
Donald Trump loves Golfing. He likes to play it, purchase it, construct it, and perform it. He owns 14 classes around the globe and runs any other 5, all of which he insists are the most productive on the earth. He additionally claims he is a 3 handicap, Nearly by no means loses, and has gained an magnificent 18 membership championships.
How so much of all that may be actual? Nearly none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly unearths on this unsparing have a look at Trump on this planet of Golfing.
Based on Reilly’s personal studies with Trump in addition to interviews with over 100 Golfing professionals, amateurs, builders, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and from time to time hilarious indictment of Trump and his Golfing recreation. You’ll be able to find out how Trump cheats (every so often with the assistance of his caddies and Mystery Provider marketers), lies approximately his ratings (the “Trump Bump”), tells whoppers in regards to the rank of his classes and their value (pointing out that all of them is value $50 million), and tramples the etiquette of the sport (riding on vegetables does not assist). Trump does not brag such so much, even though, in regards to the Golfing contractors he stiffs, the direction buddies he intimidates, or the way in which his Golfing choices finish up infecting his political ones.
For Trump, it is at all times approximately successful. To do it, he makes use of the methods he picked up from the hustlers on the public direction the place he discovered the sport as a faculty child, after which polished as some of the bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, “Golfing is like bicycle shorts. It unearths so much a couple of guy.” Commander in Cheat “paints an aspect-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater” (Esquire), revealing a wide variety of unpleasant truths Trump has been hiding.
