This is a somewhat dated piece (2 April), but Trump's dishonesty is timeless. From CNN:
A longtime sportswriter … claims in a new book [Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump] that President Donald Trump frequently cheats at golf [and] likened Trump's habit to a way of "showing you that he's better than you."
"He cheats like a mafia accountant. He cheats crazy. He cheats whether you're
watching or not. He cheats whether you like it or not," Rick Reilly told CNN....
Reilly recounted several stories from his new book … of Trump allegedly cheating, even against professional players.
According to Reilly, Trump hit two balls in the water when he played professional golfer Tiger Woods and then claimed to have almost tied with him, [and] kicked sportscaster Mike Tirico's ball into a bunker when the two played….
Trump's caddies also allegedly know to accommodate his penchant, Reilly said — "He kicks the ball out of the rough so many times, the caddies call him 'Pele,'" after the famous soccer player.
How can a man who habitually cheats at golf (or any other competitive endeavor) convince not you but himself that "he's better than you"? He knows he must cheat to win, thus he's only conning himself — so what's the point?
If a psychiatrist ever scanned this guy's brain for cognitive dissonance, the maximally intense readings would blow up the scanning machine.
He has zero self-awareness. For him, cheating and lying are justified, but if he denies he did either, I suspect that he can't remember what he said or did.
Posted by: Joseph Ernst | May 31, 2019 at 11:34 AM
Cheating at golf is just another manifestation of his whole narcissistic personality disorder.
Posted by: AnneJ | May 31, 2019 at 01:53 PM