The visit is also bringing worldwide publicity to a course that Trump bought in 2014, after its former owners had struggled to turn a profit…losing more than $1 million every year from 2014 to 2017, according to Irish corporate records.

“We’re going to be staying at Doonbeg in Ireland because it’s convenient and it’s a great place. But it’s convenient,” Trump said Sunday before leaving Washington, seemingly assuming no one listening had ever seen a map of Europe. (Incidentally, Trump spent most of the 1980s and early 1990s making up stories about Charles and Diana buying apartments at Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago memberships in a sad attempt to drum up publicity for his properties.)

Doonbeg, obviously, is far from the only business Trump has promoted during his time in office. He’s essentially used Mar-a-Lago as his home base, visits to which have cost taxpayers $1 million a day. Ironically, in an application to the Irish planning authorities, the Trump Organization argued that its future fortunes rest on being able to build a sea wall to stop the Atlantic from eroding Doonbeg’s course due to climate change, that thing the president has insisted does not exist.

Elsewhere in Trump’s visit to the Emerald Isle, he said during his sit-down with Varadkar that Ireland should build a wall on its border post-Brexit because, like his golf course, his brain is nearly completely eroded. “I think one thing we want to avoid, of course, is a wall or border between us,” Varadkar replied.

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White House inches closer to slapping tariffs on Mexico

Negotiators met Wednesday in the hopes of hashing out a deal days before Trump’s “disastrous” 5 percent tariffs on all Mexican imports are set to kick in but, according to CNBC, have thus far failed to come to an agreement. Last week, the president threatened to impose the duties until Mexico stopped the tide of undocumented immigrants crossing the border into the U.S., in a move experts say will have the exact opposite effect of what was intended, not to mention cost U.S. companies and consumers dearly. Also on Wednesday, Trump called Senator Chuck Schumer a “creep” for suggesting President Twitter was bluffing about imposing tariffs on one our our largest trading partners and neighbors. “No bluff!” the leader of the free world wrote.

Goldman Sachs sued for discrimination

The allegations do not paint the bank in the best of lights: