Trump and Merkel Take Off

Spicer also noted that Trump has held meetings and phone conversations at the golf club.

Merkel’s center-left rivals in a September election, and current coalition partners, have struck a sharper tone on the Trump administration’s reinforcement of demands that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies pay more.

Mr Spicer directly quoted Mr Napolitano as he continued to try and justify the president’s explosive accusation that Mr Obama had “wiretapped” Trump Tower during the election.

The Republican president, without providing evidence, has accused his predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama, of wiretapping him near the end of the campaign. Obama, frequently criticized by Trump and Republicans for his time on the links, played an estimated 333 rounds over eight years – a rate of once every 8.8 days he was in office.

In an interview on CBS “This Morning,”Alyssa Mastromonaco described the new administration’s first 100 days as ” pretty uncommon”, saying the White House appeared to be ignoring protocols and reversing Obama administration positions “for sport”.

“Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel”, Trump tweeted in two messages.

Trump hit back at his critics via his usual method, Twitter. The two played a total of 27 holes in a single day at two of Trump’s golf clubs near Mar-a-Lago, the president’s winter resort where he has spent most weekends since taking office.

Trump made critiquing Obama for golfing a part of his 2016 message.

As Politico reported last month, presidents Obama and George W. Bush didn’t visit a golf course until they were more than four and five months into their presidencies, respectively. We don’t have time for this.

“Sorry, Mr President, that’s not how North Atlantic Treaty Organisation works”, tweeted Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. “And we’re in the process of putting it together, and I think it’s going to be very demonstrative”.

He also said, “Because I’m gonna be working for you, I am not gonna have time to go play golf”.

Now, citing the President’s privacy, Trump’s aides are left trying to hide the President’s frequent golfing.