Althouse: "Vice President JD Vance's... comments about being prepared to assume the presidency in case of a 'terrible tragedy' befalling President Trump set tongues wagging."

August 30, 2025

"Vice President JD Vance's... comments about being prepared to assume the presidency in case of a 'terrible tragedy' befalling President Trump set tongues wagging."

"The timing of these remarks drew attention within the political landscape as keyboard warriors started connecting dots to the prominent bruise on Trump's right hand that went viral.... The story has generated substantial engagement on social media platforms, particularly on X. Below are some tweets...."

From "'Trump is Dead' trends on X: J D Vance's remark over US president sparks frenzy; Simpsons prediction adds fuel" (Times of India).

130 comments:

Cappy said...: It's his job as VP.; 8/30/25, 9:00 AM
Kakistocracy said...: What triggered the latest bout of Trump healthwatch?; 8/30/25, 9:04 AM
Marty said...: Slow news week?; 8/30/25, 9:04 AM
mindnumbrobot said...: Maybe those dots connect the fact that there were already 2 assassination attempts, and despite that fact Leftists are more unhinged and prone to violence than before. They want him dead and barely try concealing it.; 8/30/25, 9:04 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Weekend @ Bernie’s…; 8/30/25, 9:04 AM
Dave Begley said...: The first job of the VP is to be able to step in as POTUS if something happens to the President.

Kamala Harris failed at her only job and Biden failed for picking her.; 8/30/25, 9:05 AM
Wince said...: “Trump is dead.”

This time, however, the Walrus is John… Bolton.; 8/30/25, 9:06 AM
Leland said...: First it was reporting that Harris lost her Secret Service detail that was to end anyway. Now it is reporting that the VP agrees to be ready to take over as President if necessary. Really a slow news period.

Still haven't caught up to Althouse daily reporting of the sunrise.; 8/30/25, 9:09 AM
wsw said...: But Biden was aces.; 8/30/25, 9:09 AM
n.n said...: The attempts on the President's life are sufficient cause to assure the People, allies, and enemies of State that the government will remain viable.; 8/30/25, 9:11 AM
pious agnostic said...: It's Labor Day Weekend, and the (even lower-status) folks are running the media.; 8/30/25, 9:23 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: So we’re not continuing the Biden tradition of VP Autopen?; 8/30/25, 9:23 AM
tommyesq said...: To be fair, the bruise on his hand looked a lot like someone who had recently had an IV removed.; 8/30/25, 9:25 AM
FormerLawClerk said...: The story has generated substantial engagement

Clickbait, in other words.

Companies are actually paying to have their ads placed next to this AI generated bullshit. That's how fucking stupid companies in the US are.; 8/30/25, 9:29 AM
Peachy said...: The left would love to kill everyone/anyone who stand in their way. The left demand they ascend to ultimate power. The left assume they own ultimate power. Because they are wankers.; 8/30/25, 9:30 AM
Peachy said...: The same Soviet -D media who spent 4 years ignoring Biden's dementia.; 8/30/25, 9:31 AM
Kakistocracy said...: I hope they give RFK Jr power of attorney to make all of his medical decisions — he is a world leading health expert after all.; 8/30/25, 9:35 AM
Iman said...: The Democrats’ delusion. Is it just the same as their confusion? They don't know how to play Trump’s game of what it is or how it's gonna be. Witness the pathetic virtue signaling, temper tantrums, victory mincing they’ve become known for.

They are toast.; 8/30/25, 9:43 AM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: I'm just glad I lived long enough to read Wince's 9:06.; 8/30/25, 9:44 AM
JAORE said...: Lefties across the fruited plain touched themselves as they read this drek.; 8/30/25, 9:48 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Bravo, Wince, bravo.; 8/30/25, 9:48 AM
Peachy said...: Kak - Democratic party idea of "expert". So - compared to this guy - you betcha.; 8/30/25, 9:56 AM
jim5301 said...: Trump’s death won’t be a tragedy for the country. Just the opposite.; 8/30/25, 9:59 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Congestive heart failure is nothing to sneeze at.; 8/30/25, 10:02 AM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: C’mon people! It’s not a slow news period. It’s a period of too much good news that cannot be reported.

Economic numbers were great
Washington DC crime rate plummeted
Epstein story back-fired
More trans violence

That’s just off the top of my head from this week; 8/30/25, 10:14 AM
wild chicken said...: 2 weeks ago I had a dream that he got sick suddenly and died in the White House. It was quite vivid and I don't usually remember my dreams nowadays.

Must be a vibe shift or something that I'm picking up on.; 8/30/25, 10:15 AM
Peachy said...: If Trump dies in office - the left will be looking for any way to assassinate anyone who stands in their way. The corrupt left and the corrupt left's cultists demand ultimate corrupt power.; 8/30/25, 10:16 AM
Eva Marie said...: Dreams and desires for the deaths of others usually point to severe medical issues in the desirer and/or dreamer. Medical check up highly advised.; 8/30/25, 10:20 AM
Yancey Ward said...: About the bruise- if I had to guess what that was, assuming it wasn't a photo-shopped image, Trump suffered from de-hydration playing golf and they gave him IV fluids as a precaution.; 8/30/25, 10:20 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I wish Trump a long life just to annoy the hell out of Kakabich and Gadfly, but if he has to die, let it be after January 2027 so that J.D. Vance can annoy them for 10 more years.; 8/30/25, 10:22 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Maybe the body double will have a conscience.

If he plays golf well — without cheating — we’ll know.; 8/30/25, 10:33 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Kakabich- I bet you never watched Bryson Chambeau's round he played with Trump, did you? Of course, you didn't- it would be completely out of character for you to do any homework at all.; 8/30/25, 10:38 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: The same people who were never concerned about Joe Biden's senility, and kept saying he was in "perfect health" are massively concerned about Trump, and demanding the medical records.

Just. Shut.Up.; 8/30/25, 10:45 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Amazing how the MSM refuses to focus on the actual news. Lead story on NPR last week was "Katrina 25 years later". The NYT's had an article on Emmitt Till. Anything rather then talk about the Genocide in Gaza, the corruption in Kiev and the military situation in the Ukraine, out of control crime, or the massive illegal immigration. Or skyrocketing food prices, especially beef. No lets just focus in on "orange man bad" and irrelevant stories.; 8/30/25, 10:49 AM
Peachy said...: wild chicken--

Dreams are not necessarily premonitions - Dream are our hopes and fears.; 8/30/25, 10:50 AM
hombre said...: Democrats and other deranged commies treat their wishful thinking as reality. The mediaswine feed and exploit this psychopathy while ignoring real issues.; 8/30/25, 10:50 AM
Peachy said...: The democratics idea of a health "Expert"; 8/30/25, 10:52 AM
Vance said...: Anyone remember how the Spanish Civil War started? The leftists kidnapped and killed the leading figure of their political opposition and tossed his body out the door of a vehicle on a street in the Capitol. It was after that when everyone else figured out it was impossible to live peacefully with the leftists. They had already been killing Catholic priests.

But that assassination was the trigger point. Isn't it amazing how much our leftists of today want to do that again?; 8/30/25, 10:55 AM
Hassayamper said...: Companies are actually paying to have their ads placed next to this AI generated bullshit. That's how fucking stupid companies in the US are.

Doesn't sound stupid to me. It's shrewd marketing. Viciously gleeful gloating was all over Twitter late last night. The left was really letting its most ugly freak flag fly, and engagement with any ads in proximity must have been off the charts. If you were a company selling anything that appeals to the purple-haired lesbian cat ladies, and your ads made it to the Two Minutes' Hate in time, you probably hit your 2025 target last night.

Happily, it seems to have been fake news, and even more happily, I saw a lot of normies who had their eyes opened as to the menace of these people. There can be no remaining doubt that the Left means to kill all the rest of us as soon as they can seize power, or put us in "re-education" camps. Let's make sure that when they declare that the Revolution is come, the counter-revolution allows none of them to remain within our borders.; 8/30/25, 10:57 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Donald Trump cheating at golf: Fancy resorts, A-list partners, cheating at highest level
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/trump/2025/07/28/trump-cheating-on-golf-course-presidents-history-of-the-game/85404421007/

Did Trump Cheat at Golf? See the Video for Yourself
https://newrepublic.com/post/198503/trump-caught-cheating-golf-video-scotland

Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in his golf game.; 8/30/25, 10:59 AM
Hassayamper said...: Isn't it amazing how much our leftists of today want to do that again?

I expect the outcome to be the same, if not even more definitively and lastingly victorious over the leftist enemies of humanity.; 8/30/25, 11:00 AM
Jaq said...: OMG, a 79 year old playing some of the hardest course in the world for personal pleasure hits from shorter tees once in a while, doesn't spend time searching tall grass for balls, and gives himself an extra stroke on high difficulty holes.

Clap him in irons!; 8/30/25, 11:01 AM
hombre said...: “Anything rather then talk about the Genocide in Gaza….” As reported by Hamas, repeated by leftmediaswine and swallowed whole by antisemites worldwide.; 8/30/25, 11:02 AM
Jaq said...: My brother "cheats" at golf, he is 72 years old, he fluffs his lies, he kicks it from behind trees, he's not "disgusting," he just doesn't want to waste his partners' time while he takes extra strokes for no good reason. I love playing golf with him.; 8/30/25, 11:04 AM
bagoh20 said...: "Donald Trump cheating at golf:..."
Did Russia help him?; 8/30/25, 11:04 AM
Iman said...: “Jimmy Numbers” exhibits the irreversible neurological damage huffing cans of Raid will inevitably cause and the sort of love of country and countrymen his sort is known for; 8/30/25, 11:07 AM
gilbar said...: Peachy said...
"If Trump dies in office - the left will be looking for any way to assassinate anyone who stands in their way. "

assuming, for the sake of a slow news day, that President Trump passed away..
Does ANY ONE, any one in the entire world, doubt that the dems would DEMAND that President Vance appoint Kammy as VP, and then step down?

Seriously, HOW LONG would it take, before the "experts" asserted that that was THE THING TO DO?; 8/30/25, 11:08 AM
bagoh20 said...: Something is dying and mostly dead, but it's not Trump.

Simple question for the Trump hating liars:
What politician works harder, gets more done, has more wins, and makes you look like a fool more than Trump?
Hell, even fictional leaders portrayed to look like heroes don't do this well.
And fictional fools don't looks so bad as his detractors do.
It's biblical level plot formula.; 8/30/25, 11:12 AM
Jaq said...: Speaking of India. We just imposed sanctions on them for buying oil from Russia. Well, we imposed sanctions on the Modi family's precious stone cutting business. But you know what? Exxon was forced to abandon one of the largest natural gas fields in the world, in the Siberian Arctic, and guess who is stepping in to partner with Russia to develop it? India and China. That will be far more lucrative than cutting precious stones, I am guessing. Why was Exxon forced by the Biden Administration to leave Russia? Over who gets to rule over Russian speaking people in an area that was Russian in living memory. Who do we want ruling over them? Ukrainian nationalists who have outlawed the Russian language spoken by just about everybody in Ukraine, and spoken there for centuries. Zelensky had to take lessons to learn Ukrainian.

This is why we drove India into Russia's arms, and China's arms, and Russia into China's arms, etc, etc. It's stupid.; 8/30/25, 11:15 AM
tcrosse said...: It's the vain hope that if Trump goes away, so will his policies and his supporters. Not likely.; 8/30/25, 11:15 AM
Rusty said...: Look at the outpouring of love and compassion from our usual suspects. Just remember, Althouse normies, that's what they want for us.; 8/30/25, 11:20 AM
FormerLawClerk said...: “Anything rather then talk about the Genocide in Gaza….”

Is it done yet? Has Israel killed all the terrorists? Hoping for some good news to calm me back down after hearing that Trump died.

Genocide is good when applied to a terrorist organization.; 8/30/25, 11:21 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump hasn’t been seen in three days raising fresh questions about Biden’s health; 8/30/25, 11:22 AM
bagoh20 said...: Actually the questions are about the people who lied about both.; 8/30/25, 11:27 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Almost everyone except pros and people playing in competitive matches "cheats" at Golf. People move the ball an inch or two to get it out of divot or to improve their lie. That's "cheating" and it doesn't matter.; 8/30/25, 11:28 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: BTW, most duffers who cant break 90, can "cheat" to their hearts content, and they still wont break 90.; 8/30/25, 11:29 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I hate to be the one to tell you this, Kakabich- the rules of golf are whatever your playing partners agree they are. It is almost as if you have never played a round of golf in your entire life. I do find it interesting, though, that your video linked cuts off at 11 seconds. It couldn't have been doctored at all, right?; 8/30/25, 11:35 AM
Jaq said...: Here is a tip, if you are overmatched by a course, and your partners are not, he's 79, or there are people behind you, it's common courtesy to "cheat."; 8/30/25, 11:36 AM
Achilles said...: jim5301 said...

Trump’s death won’t be a tragedy for the country. Just the opposite.

This is just a democrat letting the mask slip. They are evil people who want their political opponents to die.

Mass graves follow people who seek power like this. It isn't just enough for democrats to take power. They will jail and kill anyone who does not give them their stuff. That is what socialism is.; 8/30/25, 11:37 AM
Jaq said...: "Oh, I hit one into that tall grass and we can't find it! I guess I better follow the letter of the rule and drive back up to the tee and hit another one, while the people behind me cool their heels, and wait, and the parties back up at the tee..."

Not to mention the time of the chief executive officer of the Unites States of America spending his time searching for golf balls in knee high grass. It's a joke. This all just makes Trump look better to this golfer.; 8/30/25, 11:40 AM
john mosby said...: Iman: "They don't know how to play Trump’s game of what it is or how it's gonna be."

Or What Is and What Should Never Be? The Dems are getting whipsawed as Trump's power chords go from one channel to the other and back again.

Everybody Trump knows seems to know him well
But they're never going to know that he moves like hell...RR, JSM; 8/30/25, 11:43 AM
Michel said...: Old news, Trump was in that car with Paul back in 66.; 8/30/25, 11:50 AM
Skeptical Voter said...: I'm confused. I keep reading "warnings" in the progressive press that "Trump won't leave the White House in 2028". I'm supposed to get all stirred up about that. Pro tip--I'm not--Trump will leave in an orderly fashion.

And now I'm supposed to be worried that Trump has a deadly illness and will die soon? In any case I'm not much worried. There's a good chance that J. D. Vance will become President if he does at all, by the old fashioned way--winning a Presidential election.; 8/30/25, 11:53 AM
Leland said...: Trump is playing golf with Kai.; 8/30/25, 11:55 AM
bagoh20 said...: This is why nobody wants to play golf with Trump. It's sad how lonely he is. So many lonely hours lying on the beach alone.; 8/30/25, 11:59 AM
Hassayamper said...: BTW, most duffers who cant break 90, can "cheat" to their hearts content, and they still wont break 90.

This is true. I cheat like a fiend and seldom break 100 on the rare occasions I play. I do it to catch up with my friends, get some exercise, negate the exercise by drinking a six pack of beer and smoking a couple of cigars, and ogle and over-tip the lovely beer-cart girl, whose dress and demeanor most assuredly encourage ogling and over-tipping.; 8/30/25, 12:06 PM
Mary Beth said...: Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in his golf game.

And yours here.; 8/30/25, 12:09 PM
RNB said...: Trump has a bruise on the back of his hand he's on death's doorstep. Biden could have face-planted into the South Lawn and the media wouldn't have blinked. Spare me.; 8/30/25, 12:13 PM
Just an old country lawyer said...: Peachy - "Dreams are our hopes and fears."
Most of my dreams are simply my brain hanging out and playing online free cell while my body gets some rest.; 8/30/25, 12:18 PM
victoria said...: God help us all. Having Trump in office is bad enough but Vance would be a disaster. he is (deliberately) ignorant, uninformed and an ass kisser of the highest.He couldn't lead on day 1 or day 50. Not s,art at all, no charisma and no ability to make decisions at all. Guess we have to pray that Trump continues to be healthy. Gag; 8/30/25, 12:21 PM
bagoh20 said...: "He couldn't lead on day 1 or day 50. Not s,art at all, no charisma and no ability to make decisions at all. "

You preferred Biden & Harris, so...; 8/30/25, 12:27 PM
Original Mike said...: "God help us all. Having Trump in office is bad enough but Vance would be a disaster."

Trump passes the Hitler-baton to Vance…; 8/30/25, 12:33 PM
boatbuilder said...: When you own the fucking golf course, you can play however you want to.; 8/30/25, 12:37 PM
rehajm said...: I wont engage with the Trump death watch other than to observe it will help the deranged make it thru the weekend. On golf, the game is not a big revealer. If someone’s an asshole the average observer knows before a shot it hit off the first tee. Also, Trump’s liberties are legendary, as were Cinton’s as were Obamas but I’ve watched Trump hit balls and unlike the other two he’s a good player.

… also fun, in certain geographic locales certain kinds of cheating is tolerated. Those big money players in Vegas doctor clubs and use vaseline openly..; 8/30/25, 12:44 PM
rehajm said...: …on Trump’s golf channel reality show they joked about his liberties on the course. Yes, when you own the course you tend not to be questioned…; 8/30/25, 12:49 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: “The attempts on the President's life are sufficient cause to assure the People, allies, and enemies of State that the government will remain viable.”

Exactly and entirely. But I love a good Donk “frenzy”.

And, as has been pointed out, imagine their disappointment when they find out that it’s not about Trump but about the people that voted for him. It’s been said many times. They’re not going to like what happens next.; 8/30/25, 12:53 PM
rehajm said...: The Golf Channel buried Trump’s show somewhere deep. You’d think they’d resurrect it as everyone would watch or hate watch. NBC owns it so prolly their in house political strategists feared it would conflict with the narrative…; 8/30/25, 12:54 PM
rehajm said...: …the fall political season will soon be upon us so testing out new narratives, spaghetti theory or not, is resuming…; 8/30/25, 1:01 PM
Bob Boyd said...: “Having Trump in office is bad enough but Vance would be a disaster.”

Disaster here means even more effective.; 8/30/25, 1:03 PM
victoria said...: Bagoh20, Typical of the MAGA people, choose one over the other. That is not what I'm saying. If you had a modicum of intelligence you will read that i am not saying we have to make a choice between JD or Biden/Harris. Stupid. I am just saying, please, not Vance. Or Duffy or Hegseth or Stephen Miller. Non of these people have the smarts, charisma or independence of thought to make decisions for the American people. Like i said, Trump is bad enough, any one of these people would be, at minimum, just as bad or worse.; 8/30/25, 1:03 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Jaq writes: ‘Speaking of India. We just imposed sanctions on them for buying oil from Russia.’

Xi Jinping to host Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi as China presents rival front to US ~ FT

“Shanghai Cooperation Organization security meeting will mark Indian PM’s first visit in 7 years”

In Tianjin’s salt‑tinged air, where cranes lean like patient herons, China lays a long table and invites the world to taste an alternative. Trump’s tariffs have shoved India off its comfortable fence, and Xi Jinping is waiting with a smile and a menu: rare earths for batteries and jets, tunnel‑boring machines for the veins of growing cities, fertilizer for the temper of households. It looks like hospitality; it smells like leverage. This is diplomacy as degustation, with the chef offering seconds while quietly buying the restaurant.

Call this gathering what it is: not a pact of blood, but a pact of invoices. A guild of supply and logistics, where the real choreography is about customs codes and currency swaps, and the polite presence of the United Nations lends a varnish of virtue. China isn’t storming out of the old house; it’s building an annex with better plumbing and inviting the neighbors to admire the fixtures. Meanwhile, the self‑styled guardians of the old order are still arguing over the wine list.

For India, the art is to tilt without toppling. Patrols may resume along that brutal sweep of Himalayan stone, but contact invites friction, and Pakistan lurks like a loose cable on a dark stair. The trade deficit yawns; the political deficit at home would yaw wider if dependency follows the discount. The prize is to take the inputs and refuse the addiction; the risk is to leave Tianjin with a splendid photo and a bill that keeps arriving. Strategy is grand, as the old bulldog taught us, but it is the invoice that clears, or does not, that counts at the end of the day.; 8/30/25, 1:05 PM
Hassayamper said...: @victoria: Having Trump in office is bad enough but Vance would be a disaster. he is (deliberately) ignorant, uninformed and an ass kisser of the highest.

No doubt you'll show that "Strange New Respect" for the "Elder Statesman" that Democrats always develop after a Republican is out of office and there is a new Republican in office that demands the Hitler treatment.

Prominent Democrats have compared every Republican president and presidential candidate to Hitler for eighty years. Even Eisenhower, who commanded four million men on the march to Berlin to destroy the Nazis. It's due to their almost comically desperate lust for power, but getting very tiresome.

Also, "ignorant" and "uninformed" and "not smart"? The man is a graduate of Yale Law and the best-selling author of an award-winning memoir. You need to be more specific about what kind of knowledge or intellectual capacity he is lacking, because this sounds like you are just desperately throwing dirt clods at the wall in hopes that one will stick.; 8/30/25, 1:11 PM
RNB said...: Victoria wrote: "Trump is bad enough, any one of these people would be, at minimum, just as bad or worse." Horrors! We might be looking at -- *shudder* -- dollar-a-gallon gas?; 8/30/25, 1:16 PM
Lazarus said...: Check out the album cover, man! Trump is the only one who's barefoot!

Play the record backwards! It says "I buried Trump"!

Did Kamala Harris say that she was ready to step in at any minute if Joe Biden couldn't perform the duties of his office? Maybe not, since it might lead people to think (correctly) that maybe Biden couldn't perform the duties of his office.; 8/30/25, 1:42 PM
Kakistocracy said...: JD Vance has the zeal of the convert — and that’s a problem; 8/30/25, 1:42 PM
Ampersand said...: Only 10 more posts on this thread and you're going to start persuading yourself.; 8/30/25, 1:47 PM
Eva Marie said...: Victoria said
“ Biden/Harris. Stupid.”
May be true but they were our Pres and VP so a little respect, please; 8/30/25, 1:48 PM
Gospace said...: Vance said...
...
... They had already been killing Catholic priests.

From this source: https://catholicvote.org/tracker-church-attacks/

Attacks on Catholic Churches Since May 2020:
521
Attacks on Catholic Churches Since Supreme Court Leak:
355
Attacks on Catholic Churches in 2025:
41

Funny how this hasn't been in the news- as in MSM news. Seems off the radar. I caught wind of it from an X post today. My son - the one who's VP of his local Latin Mass Society- was already aware of this. I'm informed the parish is well armed. Including during mass.; 8/30/25, 1:53 PM
Iman said...: kak has the zeal of a baby fur seal — and that’s highlarious!; 8/30/25, 1:57 PM
john mosby said...: Gospace: hoc est enim teleum meum! RR, JSM; 8/30/25, 1:57 PM
Spiros Pappas said...: If Trump dies, 3 million Indian, Pakistani and Nigerian "engineers and doctors" are coming. The engineers and doctors will bring in an additional 10 million. No way JD secures the southern border either. So that's another 10 or 15 million. However, sometime in June or July of 2028, the government will crack down hard on the border and Maga voters will be brainwashed into voting for JD in November because the alternative is even worse!; 8/30/25, 1:58 PM
Peachy said...: respect for Crook Joe and puppet Kamala? no.; 8/30/25, 2:25 PM
bagoh20 said...: And Victoria, I'm just saying your history shows you have very poor judgement about such things. Who would make a superior President to Vance. Just name one.; 8/30/25, 2:26 PM
Peachy said...: Victoria voted for Adam Schitt- so... you know.; 8/30/25, 2:26 PM
bagoh20 said...: "Maga voters will be brainwashed into voting for JD in November because the alternative is even worse!"

Worse is easy. Who is the better alternative?; 8/30/25, 2:27 PM
Peachy said...: Vicki - as a loyal democratic - name a Republican you would tolerate?

ooo lemme guess. Kinzinger and Liz Cheney.; 8/30/25, 2:28 PM
Peachy said...: I'll show a smidge of respect for Kamala because she was along for the ride and over her head.
Joe is 100% evil and corrupt.; 8/30/25, 2:30 PM
lonejustice said...: My Dad was an avid golfer, and had two shelves full of golf trophies from tournaments at local (small town, not big city) 18 hole golf courses. He taught me how to play golf when I was 12. And no, there is no world in golf where it is acceptable to cheat. Ever.; 8/30/25, 2:30 PM
walter said...: Golf Gate!!!!; 8/30/25, 2:31 PM
Peachy said...: The left want their authoritarian installed - or else..
(They do not care which authoritarian it is: Priztker or teen Newsum)
If Trump were to die, JD Vance will be president.

This is a HUGE problem for the left -and causes much mental illness.; 8/30/25, 2:37 PM
lonejustice said...: I think it would be hilarious to have a professional Rules Official follow Trump on a round of golf and record his observations. I would pay good money to see this. It would be like a reality TV show (think The Apprentice) but instead of yelling "You're fired!" the Official would shout "That is a two-stroke penalty!"; 8/30/25, 2:47 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Daily Mail: "Trump leaves White House with granddaughter Kai for round of golf"

"President Donald Trump was seen leaving the White House with his granddaughter Kai for a round of golf, amid false online conspiracy theories claiming he had died, which has since been debunked."

I hope this is a trend. Trump constantly on opining about this and that is unhealthy.; 8/30/25, 2:50 PM
Jim at said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 8/30/25, 2:50 PM
Jim at said...: Trump’s death won’t be a tragedy for the country. Just the opposite.

Yeah. Like we're just gonna sit back and let you get away with killing him.

You people are fucked in the head.; 8/30/25, 2:52 PM
traditionalguy said...: Fear not. Trump is a year younger than myself. And I feel great.; 8/30/25, 2:53 PM
traditionalguy said...: Also, James David will be our next President. And he will be excellent at the job.; 8/30/25, 2:58 PM
Jim at said...: Non of these people have the smarts, charisma or independence of thought to make decisions for the American people.

We voted for these people to make the decisions they're making. We approve of the things they're doing.

Since you lost, you don't currently get a say in the decision-making process. Nor do you speak for the American people. Stop acting like you do.; 8/30/25, 3:00 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: "He taught me how to play golf when I was 12. And no, there is no world in golf where it is acceptable to cheat. Ever."

You're a pompous twit and a liar. And I've no doubt "your Dad" taught you to play Golf at 12. And that you never played since. Typical sneaky liberal/left rhetoric.; 8/30/25, 3:22 PM
Mason G said...: "Independence of thought"? You mean like the entirety of the left repeating "Sharp as a tack" in unison up until the precise moment they were allowed to recognize that Biden wasn't?

Heh.; 8/30/25, 3:23 PM
Mason G said...: "And no, there is no world in golf where it is acceptable to cheat. Ever."

Fortunately for the left, voting is not like golf.; 8/30/25, 3:24 PM
Dr Weevil said...: I've never golfed, but I don't see how any bending or breaking of official rules can be called cheating if you're not playing for (a) money, (b) a trophy, or (c) both. Trump was playing with his granddaughter: were they playing for money, or a trophy, or just having fun?; 8/30/25, 3:26 PM
Hassayamper said...: My Dad was an avid golfer, and had two shelves full of golf trophies from tournaments at local (small town, not big city) 18 hole golf courses. He taught me how to play golf when I was 12. And no, there is no world in golf where it is acceptable to cheat. Ever.

Your dad was a club golfer, and probably had a massive stick up his ass about the rules because the competitions were what he lived for.

My friends and I are casual golfers who have never had a lesson, joined a club, entered a competition, had a handicap, or opened the rule book. Complete and total duffers who do it for the fun and camaraderie. Minor cheating like abandoning a lost ball and playing a new one, improving our lie, or forgetting to count the tap-in stroke on a short putt is part of our game. Sometimes we don't even know we're doing it.

It seems to me Trump has a foot in both worlds, and is as happy bullshitting with friends on an informal speed round as he is when he plays in one of his clubs' organized tournaments. I would expect that he pays much closer attention to the rule book when doing the latter.; 8/30/25, 3:29 PM
Iman said...: Vance can’t dance, but he’ll clean your clock
Watch him as he kicks Dem ass; 8/30/25, 3:33 PM
victoria said...: Peachy, stay on subject... If you can. This is not a discussion about either or, is it? It is a discussion of an individuals competency. You MAGA folks always want to say, "but what about so and so, he's/she's not capable either." i could care less about anyone except for the person i am referring to, JD Vance. Wouldn't trust him to take my trash out. Period, end of discussion. You want to talk about other peoples capabilities, for another day.; 8/30/25, 3:34 PM
victoria said...: Iman, you wish. He couldn't kick a ball to one of his kids competently.; 8/30/25, 3:35 PM
lonejustice said...: Hassayamper: That is an interesting comment you made, and says more about you than it does my Father. So my Father had a massive stick up his ass because he believed in following the rules of golf, and he taught me to follow the rules as well? I can only imagine how fucked up your life has been because your father taught you it was OK to cheat.; 8/30/25, 3:36 PM
victoria said...: Jim, as if you think that the Dems spendtheir time thinking of ways to get rid of Trump, you go on with that dream. It's a bad and inaccurate dream, but a dream none the less.; 8/30/25, 3:36 PM
Eva Marie said...: Well your trash, no. I wouldn’t want any Republican doing that. Yuck.; 8/30/25, 3:36 PM
Mason G said...: "My friends and I are casual golfers who have never had a lesson, joined a club, entered a competition, had a handicap, or opened the rule book."

Which is as it should be, if that's what you and your friends agree to. And this sort of thing is just what drives leftists nuts. They absolutely hate that anybody might do things differently than they command.

"But everyone wears the ribbon. You must wear the ribbon!"; 8/30/25, 3:39 PM
Eva Marie said...: Here’s a suggestion, take your own damn trash out.; 8/30/25, 3:41 PM
Jim at said...: Jim, as if you think that the Dems spendtheir time thinking of ways to get rid of Trump, you go on with that dream.

Oh, good lord. It's ALL you do. Every, single day. All day.

Well, except for the days you're trying to kill him.; 8/30/25, 3:43 PM
Iman said...: Miss Vicki put her money on Double OH CACKLE, and she ain’t never been the same.; 8/30/25, 3:49 PM
tcrosse said...: Vickie has been in a bad mood since Daddy took her T-Bird away.; 8/30/25, 3:54 PM
Eva Marie said...: “Period. End of discussion.” We’ll discuss anything we want to discuss.; 8/30/25, 3:55 PM
Mason G said...: "“Period. End of discussion.” We’ll discuss anything we want to discuss."

Scratch a leftist and you'll find a frustrated HOA board of directors member who doesn't understand why her commands are not instantly obeyed.; 8/30/25, 4:02 PM
Dr Weevil said...: The statement (11:15am) that "Ukrainian nationalists . . . have outlawed the Russian language spoken by just about everybody in Ukraine" is of course utterly false. It is however true that the Russian occupiers of Ukraine have destroyed all the Ukrainian-language books in the libraries, and are beating anyone heard speaking Ukrainian. As usual, the accusations made by Russian propagandists, and repeated by their dupes and shills in the west, are pure projection.; 8/30/25, 4:04 PM
narciso said...: four years ago, on shamblings watch and presumably kamalas imput, thirteen marines were blown up in the disastrous kabul retreat, through abbey gate, of course the press narily touches on this,
in the Capitol, we are nearing two weeks when there hasn't been a murder, do these people smelling their own (redacted) realize this
on the other side, we have a bezerker who was doted upon priviledged by the politcal class, and he sought to slaughter more than a dozen Children, they look away at that too,; 8/30/25, 4:28 PM
narciso said...: she ought to call her self veruca, like the pampered dolt of the Willy wonka tale, also not to confuse with the British born medical student, who used to frequent these haunts,

as I say I'm a fan of political fiction, ludlum forsyth*, silva till he lost the plot who inspired my own scribblings, but you have to make the story plausible

*he's bringing back odessa now called medusa, as the big threat with a ghost,; 8/30/25, 4:32 PM
Skeptical Voter said...: Boatbuilder at 1237 had it about right. When you own the golf course, you can play it anyway you want. Thirty odd years ago I was involved in negotiating a lease for a number of floors in a major office building in downtown Los Angeles. One of the businessmen involved had been a major player in commercial real estate for years and was quite wealthy. Let's call him "X". To celebrate closing of the deal, he decided what wanted to have a golf outing and banquet for all who had been involved in the negotiations--that was about 15 people. Some of those folks were decent golfers--most of us were hackers at best and a few wouldn't know a five iron from a frying pan.
His regular golf club (hoity toity) wouldn't countenance having that crew sully its fairways. But the fellow also owned a recently built and very nice golf course out in Ventura County. I mean some of the water hazards had waterfalls with female attendants dipping errant shots out of the water. "x" has since passed to his eternal reward. But I know how he spent his time as the "crew" made its way around the golf course. He was with us--but didn't play. He spent his time looking for lost golf balls out in the rough. At the banquet X announced that he'd found 15 golf balls and considered it a very good day. And he owned the joint!; 8/30/25, 4:33 PM
Hassayamper said...: I can only imagine how fucked up your life has been because your father taught you it was OK to cheat.

Dad didn't golf, leave him out of this.

I'm happy to be Al Czervik to your Judge Smails. Get over it.; 8/30/25, 4:40 PM