Commander in Cheat

How Golf Explains Trump

De: Rick Reilly

Narrado por: Rick Reilly

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming."-- The New Yorker
"Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf." -- The Ringer

An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character.
Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships.

How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf.

Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents), lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump"), tells whoppers about the rank of his courses and their worth (declaring that every one of them is worth $50 million), and tramples the etiquette of the game (driving on greens doesn't help). Trump doesn't brag so much, though, about the golf contractors he stiffs, the course neighbors he intimidates, or the way his golf decisions wind up infecting his political ones.

For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater" (Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit....It's all hilarious in Reilly's gifted hands."—Chicago Sun-Times

"The American sportswriting great has written my favorite sports book of 2019...By turns hilarious and shocking. In a game that prides itself on gentlemanly conduct, Trump is exposed by numerous witnesses (most of whom are surprisingly happy to go on the record, a tribute to Reilly's reporting skills) as a first-class cheat....I thought my opinion of the 45th president could not get any lower. I was wrong."—The Times (London), Sports Book of the Year

"Relying on testimony from playing partners, caddies, and former Trump employees, Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming....P.G. Wodehouse would have approved."—The New Yorker

"Commander in Cheat is an incredibly creative book, regardless what you think of President Trump, regardless of where you are on the political spectrum. It takes us places behind the press conferences and the staged interviews....It take us into Trump's past, places where there were no cameras, no speech writers, no handlers, no aides. It is just Donald Trump with his appetites, Donald Trump with his excesses, Donald Trump with his flaws. Donald Trump with both his love for golf, and his propensity to play games with the truth."—The Providence Journal

"Building on his firsthand experience by interviewing scores of golf pros, caddies, and opponents, Reilly paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater."—Esquire, Most Anticipated Books of the Year

"Assails Trump's 'ethics deficit.'"
—Associated Press

"Reilly uses golf to reveal larger truths. Or, in this case, lies."
—The Arizona Republic

"Diamonds among the divots - [one of] the best golf books ever written....It was not exactly a secret that Trump plays fast and loose with the rules, but Reilly's catalogue of his moral failures takes the breath away....Hilarious and rather alarming stuff."—The Times (UK)

"Great writing...If you really don't like Trump, this is your perfect book."—Chris Matthews, MSNBC's Hardball

"Sportswriting can be a lens into any part of our culture, and [Commander in Cheat] proves my point... a clever way to make sense of White House chaos."—The Week,Books to Read in 2019

"There's a new tell-all book about the president...The specific anecdotes are where Commander in Cheat really takes off."—Stephen Colbert, TheLate Show

"Commander in Cheat is one of the most surprising pieces of muckraking of the Trump era....Reilly's right to say Trump sees a golf course like he does the Oval Office...Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf."—The Ringer

An accurate summation of 45s morals through golf.

Every story helps me understand the Idiocracy that is Trump. Golf sets a baseline for character and ethics and Trump can belch whatever narrative he wants but his actions in the golf world speak his truth.

Trump's flawed character seen thru a golf prism

Cheating - at anything - reveals much about a man's character (or lack thereof). This account of Donald Trump, from the perspective of how he plays, manages & views the game of golf, explains much (if not all) you need to know about him.

He doesn't respect the rules. He doesn't respect the etiquette. He doesn't respect the game.

Also, the audiobook is a HUGE plus. Reily's voice inflections and impersonations really tells the whole story. I think would be difficult to discern just by reading the naked page. It's one of those occasions when the audio book is truly better than the written one.

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It's a Comedy

Love this book and especially author's reading. True, but sarcastic. Learned about some golf and terms, some players and courses. I don't play. I would probably play like DT which would horiffy my purist dad. He would die before cheat.

Best book on Trump

I’ve read ‘em all and I know zero about golf.
But this is far and away the best. It shows who Trump is in a visceral way. The pettiness. The narcissism. The meanness. I’m glad I read it just as the Mueller report was released. It tells the everyday side of who he is which colors in the picture.

Enjoyable on all levels

I wasn’t sure what to expect, but Rick Reilly can write, research AND be entertaining. Let’s face it, Trump is a disgrace as a president, but what’s equally vexing is his lack of decorum as a golfer. I had seen the pictures of him driving across greens. As an intermediate golfer I was appalled and couldn’t believe that more wasn’t made of this in golfing and political circles. To me, at the time, it seemed like the kind of lack of integrity that would send up red flags around the world. After reading Mr. Reilly’s book, I see that those in the Trump golfing circle already knew what to expect. If only they had found a way to warn the rest of the free world. The book is well-written and cites credible witnesses, statistics and other verifiable publications. I’m impressed. This wasn’t just a bunch of sore-loser stories strung together. Well done. Well done. Well don.