subgenius wrote: this is even more alarming....Trump my have "lied" about playing golf in office?.... the mean orange man is turning American politics on its head.... looks like no Christmas in America this year. Remember where you were today, the day a campaign promise(?) did not ring true.
Not "lied" in quotes. He just plain lied.
Trump did what he always does: he acts transactionally in the light of what he sees in front of him at any moment. In that rally, he wanted to attack Obama and get people to applaud. So he just went ahead and told the people that he wouldn't have time to play golf at all when he was President.
And, as Trump intended, that helped to get him elected. But now he has been elected, he probably can't even remember saying he wouldn't have time to play golf. Over and over again, he reacts to his perception of the immediate situation without consistency or principle, apart from going for what makes him feel good in that situation. Then he forgets what he said before.
A great guy to have as the commander in chief of the world's greatest military power? A guy you'd trust in an emergency, do you think?