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Honors and Accolades  

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I have noticed the universal self-praise President Trump has been receiving as the number of his golf tournament championships increases annually.

I have been too humble to mention the comparable national attention this blog has received. But I have been encouraged by the presidents pride in his golf course prowess to fill you in on the honors and accolades this blog has achieved in the decade-plus in which it has been published.

This is the tenth consecutive year that this blog has won the international prize for the best blog published on bobpriddy.net.  Unlike the winner of the president’s club championship, this blog first must win the local, regional, and national prizes.

The humility that has prevented me from making these announcements has been eased by  President Trump’s self-generated humble displays of his great linksmanship, exemplified by his announcement three years ago.

It is an added tribute to his strength & stamina that he was able to win the tournament that year although he missed the first day of play. He had played a round of golf somewhere else a couple of days earlier and he counted that score for his Mar-a=Lago tournament. I have not read his tournament rules although I am sure there is a past-champion’s exemption for times such as those.

It was an innovative approach that the PGA should consider.

An added distinction came earlier this year in recognition that this series of insightful writings has neither caused nor ended a war when I was awarded the bobpriddy.net Peace Prize. I was not invited to the White House to celebrate that victory. But that’s fair because I haven’t invited him to the Priddy house to celebrate his gold victories.

It takes considerable strength and stamina to compile these entries each day—-and I don’t have a big airplane to take me someplace to compose them.

Strength and stamina are qualities we share in achieving these honors and accolades. He uses a golf cart.  I have a chair from which each of my fingers makes letters appear on a screen. In fact, I probably had far more key strokes than he had golf strokes, so my strength and stamina actually might be superior to his.

I differ, however, that golfing and blogging are “in a real way” like a physical examination because neither involves a prostate check.

Although I cannot match his claim that the same strength and stamina that it takes to win a golf tournament is the same kind of strength and stamina that it takes to govern because cats govern my house more than I do and often sit on my lap to supervise. He has no supervision.

He and I share the same ability to preserve our strength and stamina for the important times by maintaining an attitude that any time is a good time for a nap.

On rare occasions I have been forced to miss some days of posting, much as Mr. Trump missed the entire first day of his 2023 tournament that he won, although I think his number of missed days governing exceeds my missed days of posting.

For many years, bobpriddy.net also had a golf championship and, as is the case with Mr. Trump’s club tournament, I won every year whether it was on the glamorous Pirate’s Cove Course at the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks, or at courses in Michigan and Colorado or near Jefferson City.  Sometimes there were other competitors but club rules categorized all of them as amateurs and scoring records were not kept.

I would show you my wall of medals and my shelves of trophies but all of you know that I differ somewhat from the president by not being as prone to gratuitous displays as he seems to be. I can’t afford a ballroom. The best we can do is a walk-in shower and two walk-in closets.

I wonder if his club trophy is a new one each year or if it is a large trophy such as the Stanley Cup that is engraved with the winner’s name annually. I also wonder if it’s 24-carat gold. Mine are more modest although several are artistic creations in Lucite.

The burden of the passing years is a concern and it is hard to anticipate what will happen when this blog’s greatest inspiration exits the stage. There will be no bobpriddy.net museum and library.  I don’t think there will be room in my urn.

Nonetheless, congratulations to me for winning this important international award again. In all honesty, I could not have done it without him.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Would He Really Have Said This? 

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We wonder if he even saw it. Or read it.

He certainly didn’t write it because he only writes in the middle of the night and what he writes is semi-incoherent and dotted with numerous misspellings, usually lacking honesty, is often loaded with hateful attacks on those who dare to disagree with him, and id intended only to keep his base inflamed.

His Holy Week statement, issued on Palm Sunday, clearly was written by someone else. It is typically Trump, though, in that it reeks of faux sincerity and reverence.

Last Sunday, the day the statement was released, the White House listed his schedule for the day:

12:01 AM The President arrives Palm Beach International Airport
12:10 AM  The President departs Palm Beach International Airport en route Mar-a-Lago
12:25 AM  The President arrives Mar-a-Lago

10:26 AM  The President departs Mar-a-Lago for his golf club

10:34 AM  The President arrives at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach

5:00 PM  The President departs Mar-a-Lago enroute to Palm Beach International

5:15 PM  The President Arrives Palm Beach International

5:25 PM The President departs Palm Beach International en route Joint Base Andrews

7:30 PM  The President arrives at Joint Base Andrews

7:40 PM  The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House

7:50 PM  The President arrives at The White House.

We doubt that The President paused during his afternoon of worshiping the putter and the 5-iron and the 2-wood to have a prayer to celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection, as he promised that he would be doing.

This Holy Week, Melania and I join in prayer with Christians celebrating the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ — the living Son of God who conquered death, freed us from sin, and unlocked the gates of Heaven for all of humanity.

Beginning with Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and culminating in the Paschal Triduum, which begins on Holy Thursday with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, followed by Good Friday, and reaching its pinnacle in the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night. This week is a time of reflection for Christians to memorialize Jesus’ crucifixion—and to prepare their hearts, minds, and souls for His miraculous Resurrection from the dead.

During this sacred week, we acknowledge that the glory of Easter Sunday cannot come without the sacrifice Jesus Christ made on the cross. In His final hours on Earth, Christ willingly endured excruciating pain, torture, and execution on the cross out of a deep and abiding love for all His creation. Through His suffering, we have redemption. Through His death, we are forgiven of our sins. Through His Resurrection, we have hope of eternal life. On Easter morning, the stone is rolled away, the tomb is empty, and light prevails over darkness — signaling that death does not have the final word.

This Holy Week, my Administration renews its promise to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government. We will never waver in safeguarding the right to religious liberty, upholding the dignity of life, and protecting God in our public square.

As we focus on Christ’s redeeming sacrifice, we look to His love, humility, and obedience — even in life’s most difficult and uncertain moments. This week, we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our beloved Nation. We pray that America will remain a beacon of faith, hope, and freedom for the entire world, and we pray to achieve a future that reflects the truth, beauty, and goodness of Christ’s eternal kingdom in Heaven.

May God bless you and your family during this special time of year and may He continue to bless the United States of America.

It makes sense, doesn’t it?  The President, who proclaimed that he would “celebrate the crucifixion and resurrection” would observe Palm Sunday by playing golf all day surrounded by PALM TREES.

Now that’s a sincere Christian for you. It’s a definition of Palm Sunday most of us never considered.

We wonder if he defended the Christian faith by mentioning the Savior’s name on the golf course, perhaps when one of his shots went the wrong way.

We have read some news accounts of The President’s Palm Sunday looking for accounts of Melania joining him in this celebration and observance, as he said she would. But nobody reported her presence.  It was probably a plot by the Associated Press to ignore her presence.  Had to be. Or maybe it was CNN or CBS or ABC or NBC.

And we wonder how his prayer “that America will remain a beacon of faith, hope, and freedom for the entire world” with a future “that reflects the truth, beauty, and goodness of Christ’s eternal kingdom in Heaven” sounds to the tens of thousands of people who are targets of his revenge and his deportations.

They didn’t have time for Palm Sunday golf.  They were too busy—really praying.

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