Trump's shameless golf cheating is 'microcosm' of his whole life: Morning Joe panel

Donald Trump notoriously cheats at golf, and panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" mocked his skullduggery on the links as emblematic of all of his other moral failings.

The former president boasted over the weekend that he’d “WON BOTH” the Club Championship Trophy and Senior Club Championship Trophy at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, which drew a sarcastic "Congratulations, Donald" from President Joe Biden, and Joe Scarborough laughed about a mutual friend who revealed the secret to his so-called success.

"We were talking to a guy who golfed regularly with him in the past, [and] I said, 'Oh, so you've golfed with him, too, huh? What did you' -- he cut me off and he goes, 'He cheats, he cheats,'" Scarborough said.

"Shocker," said co-host Willie Geist, and co-host Mika Brzezinski chimed in: "He can't play."

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"The guy was laughing about it," Scarborough added. "This is a Republican guy, I bet he voted for him in '16 and maybe '20. He's not going to vote for him in '24. He talked about how he'd brag about the club championships he'd have. When we'd interview him back before he was in the White House or in politics, you'd go into his office and he'd go, 'This is the club trophy I won here, this is the club trophy.' No self-awareness to the fact that he somehow magically wins club championships, even when he missed the first day or two. He'll give himself the advantage. I mean, it is really – they stand around clapping. He is able to bend reality even when it has to do with golf scores."

Sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote a book about Trump's cheating at golf, saying he'd never actually won a championship at a golf course he doesn't own and operate, and Geist said that this relatively minor flaw summed up his entire character.

"It is meaningless, but it is a microcosm of all of it, isn't it?" Geist said. "The cheating, people applauding, letting him do it, handing him a trophy for doing it afterwards. Remember, this is the guy with fake magazine covers made of himself, Time magazine, stuff like that. He's the guy, Joe, you maybe played with sometimes. You get to the end of the hole, and you watched him spray it into the woods, hit it to the water, four-putt, and go, 'What'd you get?' He goes, 'Put me down for a four' – really? That is Donald Trump playing golf."

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