On MLK Day, President Trump visits Trump golf course

The following article by Anne Gearan was posted on the Washington Post website January 15, 2018:

President Trump walks off the field after the national anthem before the NCAA championship football game between Alabama and Georgia on Jan. 8 in Atlanta. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump’s first stop Monday was Trump International Golf Club, apparently beginning the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with golf rather than the charitable service the slain civil rights leader’s family has urged as the best way to memorialize him.

The morning after declaring “I’m not a racist,” Trump began his Monday the same way he has begun each day of the three-day holiday weekend: with tweets sent before leaving his private Mar-a-Lago estate and then a short motorcade to the golf club.

Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago hours later, and drove from there to the airport in late afternoon. He was not seen in public until he boarded Air Force One.

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the president’s day, including whether he was playing golf. Continue reading “On MLK Day, President Trump visits Trump golf course”