Trump Heads To His Golf Course During John McCain’s Memorial Service
After spending the morning tossing out Fox News quotes and threats to Canada on Twitter as hundreds of lawmakers and dignitaries gathered at Washington’s National Cathedral for Sen. John McCain’s memorial service, President Donald Trump tossed on a white polo and MAGA ballcap and headed over to his gold club in Virginia to get 18 holes in.
Trump has arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA, according to NBC News.
This is Trump's 195th day at a Trump property as president and his 152nd day at a Trump golf club as president.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 1, 2018
According to White House correspondents, Trump arrived at Trump National Golf Club at 11:15 AM ET, which was right as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was wrapping up his remarks and just before former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama delivered their eulogies.
Prior to his death, McCain made a point not to invite Trump — who he had a very strained relationship with — to his memorial services. In the president’s stead, Defense Secretary James Mattis, Chief of Staff John Kelly, and National Security Adviser John Bolton represented the administration at Saturday’s service. Trump daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner were also in attendance.
During yesterday’s service on Capitol Hill, Vice President Mike Pense attended and delivered remarks.
While traveling to the golf course Saturday morning, POTUS found time to shoot off a couple of tweets warning Congress not to interfere with the current NAFTA trade negotiations or he will terminate the trade agreement completely.
There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2018
….Remember, NAFTA was one of the WORST Trade Deals ever made. The U.S. lost thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. We were far better off before NAFTA – should never have been signed. Even the Vat Tax was not accounted for. We make new deal or go back to pre-NAFTA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2018
As the Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey noted, most members of Congress likely didn’t see that tweet because, y’know, they were at McCain’s funeral.
Trump has arrived at his golf course, per traveling press pool. He tweeted a NAFTA threat at Congress en route, but many members of Congress and his own administration won't see for some time because they are at John McCain's funeral.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) September 1, 2018
During her eulogy at the memorial service, McCain’s daughter Meghan took some not-so-subtle shots at Trump, saying “the America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.”
