Trump’s Golf War

by Damien F. Mackey Al Bundy has called Donald Trump “a lunatic” and more. Although I was not a huge fan, nor a frequent watcher, of the TV Series, Married With Children, I have to admit to finding its leading male character, Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill), to be at times hilarious, owing to his unbridled lack of political correctness. This was as a breath of fresh air during those years of woke socio-political squeeze and Covid totalitarianism. Al Bundy, a shoe salesman, was forever getting himself into hot water with women owing to his rude and misogynistic service of, and comments about, them, in the shoe store. “A fat woman clip-clopped into the shoe store today and said, “I need something I’d be comfortable in.” I said, “try Wyoming”.” More recently, I have recalled Al Bundy’s rudeness, misogyny, and macho boastfulness in the context of Donald Trump. Some of what Trump has had to say about women is classic Bundyism: On Rosie O'Donnell "Can you imagine the parents of Kelli ... when she said, 'Mom, Dad, I just fell in love with a big, fat pig named Rosie?'" [Dec. 29, 2006] "We're all a little chubby but Rosie's just worse than most of us. But it's not the chubbiness — Rosie is a very unattractive person, both inside and out." [2006] "Rosie's a person who's very lucky to have her girlfriend and she better be careful or I'll send one of my friends over to pick up her girlfriend. Why would she stay with Rosie if she had another choice?" [2006] "If I were running 'The View,' I'd fire Rosie O'Donnell. I mean, I'd look at her right in that fat, ugly face of hers, I'd say, 'Rosie, you're fired.'" [2006] On Vice President Kamala Harris "Do you want to lose your life savings because we put a weak and foolish woman in the White House?" [November 2, 2024] "She is slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions." [October 13, 2024] "Lyin' Kamala, who is being exposed as a 'dummy' every time she does a show." [October 8, 2024] "Kamala is mentally impaired." [September 29, 2024] "Retarded." [September 29, 2024] "They put her in, and she somehow — a woman — somehow she's doing better than [President Joe Biden] did." [September 18, 2024] "She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist." [September 10, 2024] "I am much better looking than Kamala Harris." [August 17, 2024] "She was a bum three weeks ago. She was a bum. A failed vice president in a failed administration." [July 27, 2024] On "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg "She was so filthy, dirty, disgusting. She was so dirty. Every word was filthy, dirty. What a loser she is." [October 9, 2024] On 2024 presidential candidate and GOP nomination rival Nikki Haley "Nimbra doesn't have what it takes" [Jan. 19, 2024] "Birdbrain doesn't have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job" [Sept. 29, 2023] And on and on it goes. This begs the question: What would Al Bundy have thought about Donald Trump? Well, the question has sort of been answered insofar as Ed O’Neill, who played the rôle of Al Bundy, has spoken about Trump in a video. And it is far from flattering. 'Al Bundy' Actor Tears Donald Trump to Shreds in Blistering Beatdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8_lvlBqlh0 We read about it at: https://www.nickiswift.com/1647012/no-love-lost-between-modern-family-ed-oneill-donald-trump/ …. During a YouTube interview with David Pepper in September 2022, O'Neill went scorched earth when discussing how the former president would have been treated in O'Neill's hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. "You got a pretty good idea of what this guy [Trump] was like pretty fast, which is all bulls***," he said. The "Married... with Children" star said nobody would get along with Trump in Youngstown. "They'd just laugh at him, you know for being the braggart, the arrogant liar," O'Neill said. The character assault on the one-time POTUS did not stop there. "Taken care of by his daddy. A guy who never really worked hard in his life," O'Neill added. O'Neill's incendiary words led to some people supporting him in the comment section, while pro-Trumpsters voiced their displeasure. That was only part of the actor's character assassination of the former president, as O'Neill also brought up an embarrassing fact about one of Trump's golf courses. Ed O'Neill called out this fake claim …. During his YouTube interview with David Pepper in September 2022, Ed O'Neill mentioned a plaque on the course of Donald Trump's Northern Virginia Trump National Golf Club which claimed to be the site of the civil war Blood River Battle, and was signed by Trump himself. "Only one problem; there was never any such battle. He made it up …. "It's the smallest things that tip you off as to [how] this guy is nuts." The inaccuracies of the plaque O'Neill referred to have been well-documented. In November 2015, The New York Times ran a piece investigating the golf course plaque which was located between holes 14 and 15. "The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as 'The River of Blood,'" the plaque read. Contrary to those lofty claims, experts disagreed that the battle described even took place. "No. Uh-uh. No way. Nothing like that ever happened there," Richard Gillespie, the executive director of the Mosby Heritage Area Association told the outlet. When Trump was presented with the plaque's incongruences by The Times he decided to double down. "[I]f people are crossing the river, and you happen to be in a civil war, I would say that people were shot," he told the publication. Trump also bashed the history experts. "How would they know that? Were they there?" …. Read More: https://www.nickiswift.com/1647012/no-love-lost-between-modern-family-ed-oneill-donald-trump/