https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/enhan ... y-golfing/America’s economic crisis worsened on Friday as enhanced unemployment insurance expired, as did the nationwide moratorium on evictions.
The bleak outlook was reflected in new numbers showing the Gross Domestic Product falling by 32.9% in the second quarter — the worst numbers ever recorded.
Meanwhile, over 155,000 Americans have died from coronavirus and parents are worried whether schools will be able to safely open for in-person classes — or whether their local school district will join many big-city schools and only offer virtual learning.
And Hurricane Isaias is bearing down on Florida and the east coast.
Against that backdrop, President Donald Trump went golfing on Saturday.
GOLF UPDATE -- 1 AUG 2020:
Trump is back at his golf course in Virgina.
He has now spent 264 days on a golf course he owns in his 1,290 days in office.
It is his 89th day on the course at Sterling.
Taxpayer-paid golf tab still at $139.8 million.
He is helping the employment of Americans by keeping golf caddies employed riding on the back of his golf cart with the bags. He is playing so much golf so his club makes a steady income from the government.