Hail to the new Duffer-in-Chief!
President Biden hit the links for the first golf game of his presidency on Saturday during an unannounced visit that seemed to surprise local hackers.
Startled members of the Wilmington Country Club, 10 minutes from Biden’s Delaware home, were seen pulling out their cell phones to record the president’s arrival at the 36-hole facility.
He took off with adviser Steve Ricchetti and Ron Olivere, the White House said. Olivere is the father of Hallie Biden, the widow of Biden’s late son Beau – and former lover of Hunter Biden, his youngest son with scandals.
Biden had the game on his mind for the past few days: the trip came a day after his shrinking reference to Masters golf champion Hideki Matsuyama as a “Japanese boy” in a Rose Garden press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
Once ranked by Golf Digest as one of Washington’s golf madman’s top politicians, Biden took a break from the left during last year’s presidential campaign. His first public undertaking on the course comes 87 days after he took the oath of office.
Many more trips are needed to catch up with the huge appetite of its predecessors for the game. President Trump played at least 150 rounds on the golf courses he owns in Virginia, Florida and New Jersey during his presidency. President Obama has repulsed more than 300 times during his second term.