Donald Trump plays a lot of golf. That might be the one thing all Americans agree on about him. That being said, we don’t know if he is any good at golf or not. He owns a lot of courses and plays nearly every weekend, but he also doesn’t think exercise is good for you. So it seemed like we may never get to bottom of this.
That was until Anthony Scaramucci’s first press conference where he said, among other things, that President Trump could sink a three-foot putt. Interesting thing about that statistic: It isn’t impressive at all, if you ask me.
Here’s where the story gets interesting, though. In the official transcript that the White House released “three-foot” was changed to “thirty-foot,” which is more impressive by about ten-fold or so.
Scaramucci: Trump “sinks 3-foot putts.”
White House transcript revises: “He sinks 30-foot putts.”https://t.co/VN6zXFC0K1 pic.twitter.com/gKcyJi3qUq— M??? ?eg?i? ? (@MattNegrin) July 27, 2017
It’s worth remembering that Kim Jong-Il once claimed to play a 38-under-par in a game that included eleven holes-in-one. Unlike the Donald, though, this happened the first time he picked up a club.
The internet, as always, has some thoughts on this.
He invented golf. A lot of people don’t know this.
— Peter Delevett (@pdelevett) July 27, 2017
He sinks putts from 300,000,000 light years away. Why stop there? Words don’t mean anything anymore @WhiteHouse pic.twitter.com/w6isPJt0Co
— President Kalola?? (@BROWNPOTUS) July 27, 2017
he fucking better be good at golf, considering how much time he spends doing it
— Kris (@krisaubuchon) July 27, 2017
Obama sinks 40-foot chip December 22, 2015 ? pic.twitter.com/7JbnGVQ4tO
— Jamie (@TheGrandSlams) July 27, 2017
Do you think we’ll ever know for certain?
[h/t Deadspin]