Tag: Trump golf courses

In 2019, Trump Visited Golf Clubs At Least Once Every Five Days

Donald Trump spent 24 percent of his days — more than one out of five — in 2019 visiting his own golf courses, according to the most recent count from CNN.

According to the outlet, Trump went to his golf resorts for at least 86 days last year and was at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, to close out the year.

“This year alone, he spent at least 86 days at a golf club, despite a late start due to the government shutdown,” CNN reported. “The golf excursions have included the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia; his Bedminister, New Jersey, golf club; Trump National Doral outside Miami; and Trump International Doonbeg in Ireland.” Continue reading

Trump once advocated a ‘huge financial penalty’ for those employing undocumented immigrants

During the recent government shutdown, a number of people who worked for Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, N.Y., were summoned to the facility — then closed for the season — for a meeting with their bosses. There, they were fired, some after years of service, because they were in the country illegally. The terminations followed a similar action at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., last year.

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that there are entire communities of former Trump Organization employees in Central America, people who once worked illegally for President Trump’s sprawling resort empire as undocumented immigrants, often with their supervisors’ knowledge. People who helped build the Trump Organization as it now is, some of whom were lucky to avoid the fate of those staffers in Westchester, moving back home before the politics of a president railing against illegal immigration while profiting from undocumented immigrants’ work became untenable. Continue reading “Trump once advocated a ‘huge financial penalty’ for those employing undocumented immigrants”

‘My whole town practically lived there’: From Costa Rica to New Jersey, a pipeline of illegal workers for Trump goes back years

At his home on the misty slope of Costa Rica’s tallest mountain, Dario Angulo keeps a set of photographs from the years he tended the rolling fairways and clipped greens of a faraway American golf resort.

Angulo learned to drive backhoes and bulldozers, carving water hazards and tee boxes out of former horse pastures in Bedminster, N.J., where a famous New Yorker was building a world-class course. Angulo earned $8 an hour, a fraction of what a state-licensed heavy equipment operator would make, with no benefits or overtime pay. But he stayed seven years on the grounds crew, saving enough for a small piece of land and some cattle back home.

Now the 34-year-old lives with his wife and daughters in a sturdy house built by “Trump money,” as he put it, with a porch to watch the sun go down.

View the complete February 8 article by Joshua Partlow, Nick Miroff and David A. Fahrenthold on The Washington Post website here.

Eric Trump said family golf courses attracted Russian funding, author claims

The following article by Martin Pengelly was posted on the Guardian website May 8, 2017:

President’s son denies he said Trump Organization had ‘all the funding we need’ from Russia while Donald Trump ‘tossed off that he had access to $100m’

Donald Trump on one of his golf courses. Photograph: Michael McGurk/Rex/Shutterstock

Eric Trump said three years ago the Trump Organization had “all the funding we need out of Russia” for its golf course projects, according to an author recounting the story of a 2014 meeting with Donald Trump and his son.

The author also said Donald Trump “sort of tossed off that he had access to $100m”.

The author’s comments – which Eric Trump later said were “completely fabricated” – prompted widespread interest in the media and online. Continue reading “Eric Trump said family golf courses attracted Russian funding, author claims”