The traits Trump exhibits on the golf course serve as a metaphor for his approach to life and politics: a willingness to bend the rules and win at any cost
American sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote a book called Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, to explain Donald Trump’s incorrigible ways. He alludes to Trump’s self-claimed prowess in Golf and his purported handicap of 2.8 by a fawning Golf Digest by saying, “If Trump is a 2.8, Queen Elizabeth is a pole vaulter.”
However, perhaps the most damning reality check for Trump is the fact that both his ‘wingman’ (former and current) i.e., Vice President Mike Pence and his current running mate, JD Vance, would have the maximum access to Trump and know him as a person, have been critical – even if expediency forces Vance to conveniently renege from his earlier views and for Pence says a lot with his deafening silence and refusal to endorse his former boss’s candidature.