Trump’s Caddy Will Put You in a Chokehold If You Criticize His Boss What the president’s staffers can learn from the ex-Marine who carries his golf clubs and another former caddy in Trump’s orbit. By RICK REILLY
March 21, 2019 Rick Reilly is a sportswriter with work in Sports Illustrated and ESPN. He is also a screenwriter and the author, most recently, of Commander-in-Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, from which this is excerpted.President Donald Trump’s two most loyal employees aren’t politicians or fixers or publicity flacks. They’re caddies.
He has a regular outdoor caddy—a 60-something ex-Marine named A.J.—who loops for him faithfully at Trump National Golf Club Washington in Northern Virginia.
And then he has a kind of indoor caddy—Dan Scavino, Trump’s social media director, and one of the very few staffers who’s remained in Trump’s orbit from the start of the campaign—who actually met Trump caddying for him when he was a teenager.
In a way, A.J. and Scavino are the same guy. They’re both mostly unknown, yet they know all the president’s secrets. Both do the same job, and it’s a fairly simple one: They give their man the right club to take shots with. These two work for a human flamethrower and yet somehow haven’t been torched. Cabinet members, attorneys general, chiefs of staff come and go like the Wendy’s drive-thru and yet they stay employed.
What do A.J. and Scavino know about keeping the most powerful man in the world happy that others don’t?
Take A.J. first.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/21/donald-trump-golf-caddy-225885
