Donald Trump made an unscheduled Saturday visit to his Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C., in Ashburn, Va., on Oct. 7 before he went to a scheduled appearance. The brief visit marked the 69th time the 45th President has visited one of his 17 golf clubs (and, for most of them, presumably played some golf) since becoming President on Jan. 20, 2017.
According to pool reports, Trump left the White House shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday morning wearing a red USA cap, a white polo shirt and khakis. He arrived to the club around 10 a.m. ahead of a Republican fundraiser later in the day in Greensboro, N.C.
This visit came after a morning tweetstorm in which he attacked late-night TV hosts for not showing enough balance, even though that's not a confine of a late-night show.
The Trump Administration, per policy, does not acknowledge that Trump is playing even a hole of golf, much less an 18-hole round. However, if he's going to the golf club for about 4-5 hours, you can be pretty sure he's playing golf. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has asked the White House to provide the names of Trump's golf partners, as well for his clubs to provide visitor logs to get a sense of when Trump has played golf and with whom.
The President is certainly entitled to some leisure time, and golf has been an outlet for most Commanders-in-Chief dating back to the early 20th century. However, the reluctance to even acknowledge that this President plays golf conflicts with his almost relentless criticism of his predecessor, Barack Obama, who played an estimated 333 rounds of golf as President.
