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Aides to former President Donald Trump are reportedly concerned that he’s golfing too much and campaigning too little.
But as his family visits his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course in August, the president seems to prefer hitting the links and appeared bored during a press conference at the course earlier this month. He didn’t seem too pleased about attending a fundraiser with donor Miriam Adelson either, The Washington Post reports.
Former aides told The Post that Trump prefers to have a less hectic schedule during his family’s time in Bedminster when he mostly spends time on the course. But aides, speaking anonymously, also told the paper that they didn’t want the former president sitting at home watching the Democratic convention and getting irate.
This comes as his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance says that he regrets that “a lot of people” took his 2021 “childless cat ladies” comments “the wrong way.”
He told NBC News in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he made “a joke” in “the service of a real substantive point.”
“This country has become too anti-family,” he added. “It’s too expensive to afford a house. It’s too expensive to afford groceries.”
Key Points
- Trump to campaign in swing states
- Watch out JD Vance, these are the cities with the most childless cat ladies
- Barron Trump is off to college this fall, along with his Secret Service agent
- Republican group cites notorious Dred Scott ruling as reason Kamala Harris can’t be president
- Lindsey Graham calls DNC ‘hatefest full of insults’
Trump aides desperately trying to stop him golfing and focus on election as critic says he’s ‘lost his mojo’: Report
Aides to former Donald Trump are reportedly trying to get the former president off the golf course and onto the campaign trail.
But as his family visits his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course in August, the president seems to prefer hitting the links and appeared bored during a press conference at the course earlier this month. He didn’t seem too pleased about attending a fundraiser with donor Miriam Adelson either, The Washington Post reports.
In public, he mentioned remaining at home during the Democratic National Convention, declining to take on Vice President Kamala Harris in the fight for the next news cycle.
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Republican VP candidate JD Vance might want to stop insulting childless cat ladies.
Pittsburgh – in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania where Trump is losing his lead – ranked as the top city for most single women who own cats, according to an analysis by The Independent.
In a 2021 interview, Vance complained that the country was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies” – including Kamala Harris – “who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
That quote came back to haunt him after Donald Trump nominated him as his running partner, and the line quickly went viral.
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Barron Trump, the youngest of Donald Trump’s children, is embarking on one of the first big adventures of adulthood this fall: moving away to college.
The 18-year-old, having just graduated from Florida’s prestigious Oxbridge Academy, will study in New York, his father revealed this week. The exact university remains unknown but NYU, Columbia and Cornell are all possible contenders.
Barron will now join a long line of young adults to attend school with the weight of their parents’ presidential legacies on their shoulders — and Secret Service agents watching their every move.
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