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Trump fumes as media slams coronavirus pandemic golf outing


US President Donald Trump plays golf in Sterling, Virginia, on May 23, 2020. (Photo by Shutterstock)

US President Donald Trump has fumed at negative media coverage of him playing golf over Memorial Day weekend as the US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000.

"The Fake and Totally Corrupt News makes it sound like a mortal sin!" the golf-loving president said on Twitter, noting that the game at his own course in Virginia was the first time he had played since early March.

The timing of his outing, as the nation approached a milestone in deaths from the pandemic, sparked widespread criticism in the media, with commentators recalling Trumps own past attacks on his predecessor Barack Obama for playing the game during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

"There are times to play and times that you cant play. It sends the wrong signal," Trump said at the time.

"You know when youre president you sorta say, like, Im gonna give it up for a couple of years and Im really gonna focus on the job," he said in 2014.

After being raked over the coals at the weekend, Trump lambasted the media as being "sick with hatred and dishonesty."

"I knew this would happen!" he said. "What they dont say is that it was my first golf in almost 3 months, and, if I waited three years, they would do their usual hit pieces anyway."

The Republican leader went on to say that in 2014 Obama flew to his home state of Hawaii shortly after he had publicly denounced the beheading of American hostage James Foley by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists.

Obama apologized for the poorly timed visit afterwards and acknowledged the gravity attached to presidential behavior at such moments.

Trump received some unexpected support from one-time Obama adviser David Axelrod.

"I dont often defend this @POTUS but I dont begrudge him a round of golf," Axelrod, now a political commentator, said on Twitter.

"Besides, it gives the rest of us a respite from those crazy tweets! Yes, its hypocritical for @realDonaldTrump to have attacked @BarackObama for seeking some relief from the pressures of the presidency on the golf course when Trump has logged many more rounds," he said.


(Source: AFP)

 

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