Associated Press
Donald Trump has nothing listed on his official schedule of presidential campaign events on Sunday, so he’s going to watch the final round of the Cadillac Championship.
After all, it’s on his course.
Trump National Doral is the site of the event, and his name is everywhere — on the cocktail napkins, on the garbage cans, even in giant gold letters on the side of the main entrance to the facility. The caps with his “Make America Great Again” slogan are on sale in the gift shop for $30, or $2 less than the ones with his golf course’s logo. There’s even a Trump Lounge, not far from the 18th green.
His arrival won’t be a surprise. All that remains to be seen is how he arrives — there’s a helipad on the course, and coming in by helicopter has been his preferred method in recent years — and how visible he is.
Trump presented the trophy to Dustin Johnson after his win at Doral last year.
“We’ve had presidents, ex-presidents show up and cheer us on at different events, so that’s pretty neat and unique,” Bubba Watson said a few days ago, when asked for his thoughts about a presidential candidate popping in on the tournament. “But for it to be in the middle of a race, yeah, it will be different.”
The Republican front-runner had stops in Wichita, Kansas; Orlando, Florida; and West Palm Beach, Florida, on his Saturday schedule. He’s expected to be in North Carolina and Mississippi on Monday, but Sunday apparently will be all about golf.
The event itself faces a most uncertain future.
Cadillac is in the final year of its title sponsorship and a renewal seems most unlikely, for reasons unrelated to Trump’s candidacy.
“It would be a shame if it kind of gets to the direction that it sounds like it could head and Cadillac could pull out,” Englishman Danny Willett said before the tournament. “I think it would be a shame. Trump’s been pretty good for golf. It would be a shame if that was to go south and not go very well.”
The PGA of America canceled its Grand Slam of Golf that was to be held at Trump’s course in Los Angeles last year in response to comments he made about Mexican immigrants. And given the sponsorship situation, it hardly seems guaranteed that Doral, which has been part of the PGA Tour schedule for more than 50 years, is on the tour’s schedule for 2017.
3 comments
olga villacis
March 6, 2016 at 9:02 am
AMAZING!!!
madhen naik
March 6, 2016 at 10:19 am
Anger and Love, Right and Wrong in American Politics.
By KPM Nair
When I was very young, sometimes my mom and dad used scold me, even beat me, whenever I did something wrong or did not do as per their expectations. When I tasted my first cigarette, my dad went all bonkers! It took a few growing years for me to realize that all that scolding was because they loved me too much. You may all have also experienced this and may say, so what? or that this does not need a computer scientist to understand. My point here, is that we see a lot of this phenomenon of anger and love, in the current ongoing process of the GOP nomination for the Presidential elections next year, in November, 2016. How come?, you might very well ask and here it is, just a little bit of “Thinking Out of the Box”.
Mr. Carson ( one of the top running Republican candidates) is rumored to have hit his mother with a hammer. Obviously in a fit of anger, the other side of the coin of his deep love for his mom. Figuratively this anger and love are opposite sides of the same coin, the coin of human interaction. Maybe she scolded him for something she did not like, something beyond her expectations about her dear son. Similar must have been the case of his stabbing a class fellow with a knife, yet another example of anger and love being two sides of the same coin. Maybe the loving friend did something which Carson did not like or expect, which drove him to a fit of anger. It is an expression of his love for the friend, albeit being negative in consequence. Whether these incidents are imaginary or otherwise do not immediately matter here, because of the fact that human reactions to such situations are often sentimental and not logically sensible.
Similar is the case with Mr. Donald Trump telling that ” how can you be so stupid to believe this crap?”.That shows clearly that he is extremely angry, furious, in his position as a 69 year old Presidential candidate. But we need to realize, psychologically, that this is the opposite side of the coin of his deep love for Americans and Iowans. Because of that love, he feels angry when he perceives that the people of Iowa and America are doing something wrong, according to himself.: i.e. believing the lie, apparent lie, a lie as long as it not proved otherwise, and then going to vote for somebody who callously lied with a calculated intention of turning people around in his favor. Thus Trump becomes fury personified. He loses logic and the does not think at that moment of intense fury, whether he will lose or not..
Lana Brown in her recent blog in Washington Post, states one has to learn to lose in order to win. Her analysis is based on what philosophers call Ego. But the fact remains, that Ego gives way to deep felt sentiments, in several situations of human interaction. Ego surrenders when there is intense love or inexplicable fury. It ( the ego) does not matter to a person deeply in love with someone or something. Such a person will forget himself/herself and can make great sacrifices. In such situations, the Ego disappears. Similarly, it no longer matters to the furiously angry person whether he is right or wrong in a given situation.( Remember Howard Dean w.r.to the Iraq war, during the last election in 2012). All his moral dismay and anger did not help him though. And now consider Trump too.
It is therefore important for us, the voters, to distinguish leadership and decision making capability in our leaders when we decide to vote for some one. To be cool in a financial or political crisis, to be tough when it is required ( Putin w.r.to Barrack Obama, illegal immigration changing this great country’s cultural ethos and ambience are good recent examples), to be always well prepared…a good team of assistants is required…with verifiable facts, etc are essential qualities for a real leader.
When the ISIS killed more than 150 people, the other day, in France, was praying for them the solution? or it was better to have bombed the hell out of them, early enough, instead of remaining indecisive for far too long? We should have exterminated them or not? Or we wait till they come here along with the refugees and illegal immigrants and hit us hard? Which is right and which is wrong here? We need toughness to handle such situations. We should teach them and their supporters, they should not play with America as they did on 9/11. If you love your country, is there any harm to be angry with the killers of our own people? Political correctness does not matter in such a scenario. The Biblical Right and Wrong, may be, ultimately prove good enough, if those gospels were followed early enough. But right now it becomes too little, too late.
They say everything is fair in love and war. As long as the politicians consider that the nomination and election to become the President is like a war, perhaps whatever they say and do ( blatant lies and non-facts included) shall be considered as,” fair enough”?
I hope and pray that Americans can choose a proper leader for them in 2016, to turn around this great nation from the pitiable, defeatist mentality into which this lovely country is falling fast.
Therefore, “My Dear Brothers and Sisters of America,” your discretion, your logical thinking and judgment are what will determine the future, yours, your children’s as well as that of your beloved country.. God Bless You and America.
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