I love golfing and talking.

Some in my circle would say I’m OK at the former and that I excel at the latter.

And yet even I do not love to play golf with a chattering non-golfer sitting in the cart beside me. I don’t even want to play golf with a chattering golfer sitting in the cart beside me. The only thing I want to discuss when I am playing golf is…my golf. And on that topic I am voluble, particularly when I reach the green and my putt is not worth describing.

I am not the only golfer who feels this way. Very few people who truly love the sport want to spend a round learning about how their companion’s kids are doing in fifth grade, who they are sleeping with, who their spouse is sleeping with, and so on. But there are people who feel that a round of golf is the moment to unload their personal problems. Not only is the chat distracting, typically, the chatterers are the ones who stand over their ball for hours, taking 9 practice swings…meanwhile I am already wondering how quickly we can finish and what’s for dinner.

Donald Trump is a very good golfer. And by reputation he is also a very fast golfer. (I am still waiting for my invitation to experience this first-hand but I do know many people who have played with him.)

So, when I heard from the disgruntled Trump groupies down at Mar-a-Lago that Elon Musk is NOT actually golfing with Trump (per the headlines), no he is now riding around in Trump’s golf cart, chatting with Trump while Trump golfs…I thought…

Read on at Vicky Ward Investigates