A GRAPHIC showing the timeline of coronavirus deaths in the US compared to the number of Donald Trump’s golfing trips has been projected onto the side of one of his golf resorts.
Campaign group Led By Donkeys projected the shocking numbers onto the side of Ayrshire's Turnberry resort after America’s Covid-19 death toll hit 200,000.
A video posted on the group’s Twitter played the footage alongside the US president’s previous quotes about presidents playing golf during crises.
In the clip, Trump says: “Obama plays more golf than professional players in the PGA tour.
“If you become president and you go to the White House – why would you want to leave the White House?
Trump Turnberry golf course, Scotland - SOUND ON
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) September 22, 2020
cc @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/bth2aeKSic
“I love golf, but if I were in the White House I don’t think I’d ever see Turnberry again, I don’t think I’d ever see Doral again – I own Doral in Miami. I don’t think I’d ever see many of the places that I have, I don’t ever think I’d see anything, I’d just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.
“There won’t be time to go on vacations, there won’t be time to go golfing all the time.
“If I get elected president, I’m going to be in the White House a lot, I’m not leaving.
“I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”
By the end of the clip Trump has racked up 24 golfing trips to the 200,000 coronavirus deaths in the US.
More than 6.7 million people in America have contracted coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
Despite having said the US would have done well to have between 100,000 and 200,000 coronavirus deaths, Trump has now tried to spin the number of fatalities as a success.
He said on Friday: “'If we didn't do our job, it would be three and a half, two and a half, maybe three million people.
“We have done a phenomenal job with respect to Covid-19.”
Just 39% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, according to a recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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