Politics & Government
Trump's Tweet Over Wasting Time Negotiating With North Korea Apparently Sent From Golf Course
With no public events on his schedule Sunday morning, President Trump took to the links and taunted "Little Rocket Man."

President Trump was apparently golfing Sunday on his course in Bedminster, New Jersey, when he sent a tweet taunting North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as "Little Rocket Man" and announced that he found negotiating with him to avoid nuclear war was "wasting" time.
According to his timeline on Twitter, Trump sent the tweets at 10:30 and 10:31 Sunday morning.
I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2017
...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2017
Minutes later, at 10:40 Sunday morning, a passerby driving on a road outside Trump's Bedminster golf course snapped a photograph of Trump swinging away on what appeared to be the fourth tee and sent the image to Patch.
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Later, the president was scheduled to depart for the President's Cup golf tournament in Jersey City.

Earlier Sunday, he praised the governor of Puerto Rico for recovery work following the hurricanes that ravaged the island, pointedly ignoring the mayor of San Juan, who he had bashed the day before for "poor leadership."
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During the 2016 campaign, and before, Trump repeatedly criticized President Obama for golfing.
"I just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off," Trump said last year.
Various news outlets have tried to keep track of the number of Trump golf outings, not an easy task given that the president doesn't always announce when he's headed for the fairways. Public accounts indicate the weekend trip to Bedminster was his 10th since taking office.
The White House had initially reported that Trump had no public events on his Sunday schedule. Later, it amended that to include his trip to the President's Cup but made no mention of his own golf outing.
Where the president has spent time, according to public schedules released by the White House:
Jan 28 - White House
Feb 4 - Mar-a-Lago golf club
Feb 11 - Mar-a-Lago golf club
Feb 18- Mar-a-Lago golf club
Feb 25- White House with excision to Trump hotel in DC
Mar 4 - Mar-a-Lago golf club
Mar 11 - White House with excursion to golf club in VA
Mar 18 - Mar-a-Lago golf club
Mar 25 - Golf club in VA/DC Hotel, and White House
Apr 1 - White House with excursion to VA golf club
Apr 8 - Mar-a-Lago golf club
Apr 15 - Mar-a-Lago golf club
Apr 22 - White House with excursion to DC hotel
Apr 29 - White House with excision to VA golf club
May 6 - Bedminster golf club
May 13 - White House with excursion to VA golf club
May 20 - Overseas
Nay 27 Overseas
June 3 - White House with excursions to VA golf club
June 10 Bedminster golf club
June 17 - Camp David
June 24 - White House with excursion to VA golf club
Jul7 1 - Bedminster golf club/White House
July 8- Overseas
July 15 - Bedminster golf club
July 22- White House with excursions to VA golf club
July 29 White House with excursions to VA golf club and DC hotel
August 5 - Bedminster golf club
Aug 12 - Bedminster golf club
Aug 19 - Bedminster golf club
Aug 26 - Camp David
Sept 2 - TX/LA/WH
Sept 9 - Camp David
Sept 16 - Bedminster golf club
Sept 23 - Bedminster golf club
Sept 30 - Bedminster golf club
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