The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold reports that five of President Trump’s properties feature a fake Time magazine cover of Trump from 2009. It’s a funny story, but as Fahrenthold notes, it also feeds into a pattern with Trump: His serial fabulism and resume inflation.
Toward the end of the election, I discovered another example of this at his golf clubs. Specifically, I found that Trump’s claim to have won 18 club championships wasn’t quite as impressive as it seemed. I’m re-posting that piece here.
A plaque at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., lists the nine men who have won the club’s championship. One of the names will be familiar: “Donald J. Trump” was the champion in 1999, 2001 and 2009.
Those are apparently 3 of the 18 club championships Trump claims to have won over the years. He has cited these victories as proof that he’s a winner in all facets of life. “Even in golf, I’ve won many golf club championships,” he told Time magazine last year. “I don’t know if you guys play golf. But to win a club championship is hard, literally hard. And you have to beat scratch players. You got a lot of good players.”
But not all of those 18 championships were created equal, it seems.
First off, Trump is listed as the 1999 club champion, but the course didn’t have its official grand opening until Jan. 8, 2000, according to a contemporaneous Palm Beach Post report. The course did have what the Post called a “soft opening” on Nov. 1, 1999…
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