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Trump golf game gets special press box: a basement with blacked-out windows
Source: The Guardian
Trump golf game gets special press box: a basement with blacked-out windows
President hosts Japanese PM for a spot of fairways diplomacy
but high-level golf game is off limits to reporters, blocked by
black plastic sheeting
Tim Hill
Saturday 11 February 2017 21.17 GMT
Donald Trump loves to play golf. But he doesn’t always like other people to see him play golf – which would explain the black plastic bags covering the windows at the Trump National Jupiter golf club: to keep out reporters’ prying eyes
On Saturday, the president hosted the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, at his Palm Beach golf club for some diplomatic links, after the pair met for talks in the White House on Friday. Reporters who had tagged along for the trip were surprised to discover that they were to remain holed up in a clubhouse basement – with no way to glimpse what was happening on the course outside.
Jennifer Jacobs, a White House reporter for Bloomberg, tweeted: “Trump’s press corps has been placed in a basement suite at Jupiter golf club. Black plastic over windows to give Trump privacy as he golfs.”
Jill Colvin of the AP also tweeted a picture of the makeshift coverings.
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President hosts Japanese PM for a spot of fairways diplomacy
but high-level golf game is off limits to reporters, blocked by
black plastic sheeting
Tim Hill
Saturday 11 February 2017 21.17 GMT
Donald Trump loves to play golf. But he doesn’t always like other people to see him play golf – which would explain the black plastic bags covering the windows at the Trump National Jupiter golf club: to keep out reporters’ prying eyes
On Saturday, the president hosted the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, at his Palm Beach golf club for some diplomatic links, after the pair met for talks in the White House on Friday. Reporters who had tagged along for the trip were surprised to discover that they were to remain holed up in a clubhouse basement – with no way to glimpse what was happening on the course outside.
Jennifer Jacobs, a White House reporter for Bloomberg, tweeted: “Trump’s press corps has been placed in a basement suite at Jupiter golf club. Black plastic over windows to give Trump privacy as he golfs.”
Jill Colvin of the AP also tweeted a picture of the makeshift coverings.
Link to tweet
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/11/trump-golf-game-gets-special-press-box-a-basement-with-blacked-out-windows
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had the cajones to pull the shit off at least one window? Really?
