Golf veteran Trump in a snub to the military
DONALD Trump won the keys to the White House on a campaign that included many boasts about his love and support for the military.
Yet this week, as he kept thousands of servicemen and women away from their families at Thanksgiving after sending them to the US-Mexico border, Trump slipped off with his family to his Florida mansion.
It has sparked outrage because the President has yet to visit any troops deployed in a war zone, saying he didn’t think it was “overly necessary”.
Clinton, Bush and Obama all gave up their holidays to eat Thanksgiving turkey with the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. “I’ve been very busy with everything that’s taking place here,” Trump said, as he played his 164th round of golf since taking office.
When Florida cops posted a mugshot of a drug suspect with a freakishly large neck earlier this month (left), the whole of America went for the throat with the puns. Then on Wednesday, Charles McDowell, 31, was collared again in Alabama, when he was seen driving recklessly. The internet is having a field day but somebody better notify his necks of kin that he might not be out for some time.
Imagine former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith being drafted in as the manager of Fulham.
Well, ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 64, was this week touted to take over as head coach of American football team, the Cleveland Browns.
The Browns have failed to win a championship in the Super Bowl era and have won a grand total of seven games in the past four seasons.
Rice famously approved CIA waterboarding, so we can only imagine how she’d turn the Browns around.
No doubt in Bethlehem right now hundreds of camels are being prepared for the flood of pilgrims arriving in the Israeli city ahead of Christmas Day.
But thousands of miles away in Pennsylvania, a camel was giving motorists the hump, as it got them stuck in traffic, in sub-zero temperatures, for hours. The problem? Einstein the camel’s transporter broke down and he opted to walk home to the Peaceable Kingdom Petting Zoo.
As kids, we were all dragged kicking and screaming to the dentist. But Shaurice Jones took things too far...
After being driven for a check-up, her 12-year-old son had refused to go inside and “climbed on the hood” instead. With the stubborn youngster clinging to the bonnet, a baffled Ms Jones, 36, then drove two miles to a Pennsylvania police station.
She has now been charged with child endangerment, a felony, and reckless endangerment.
P.S. My barman Richard was given cold turkey for Thanksgiving. It seems his mother-in-law did not appreciate his joke about assisted dying when she asked his wife to colour her hair.