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Donald Trump Claps Back at Samuel L. Jackson for Calling Him a Golf Cheat

Actor Samuel L. Jackson attends 2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at TAO Downtown on January 4, 2016 in New York City.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson attends 2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at TAO Downtown on January 4, 2016 in New York City.

*Donald Trump fired back at Samuel L. Jackson on Tuesday, after the actor suggested that Trump cheats at golf.

The GOP front-runner tweeted that Jackson did “too many TV commercials” and that he was “not a fan” of the actor – apparently in response to Jackson’s recent interview in United Airlines’ Rhapsody magazine, in which Jackson complained that one of Trump’s golf clubs had charged him without his knowledge.

“I’ve golfed with him,” Jackson told the magazine for its latest issue.

“But it’s funny — last week or so, I actually got a bill from Trump National Golf Club,” he continued. “And I haven’t been there in four or five years, so I had my assistant call. They said it was for membership dues. And I said, ‘I’m not a member,’ and they said, ‘Yeah, you are — you have a member number.’ Apparently he’d made me a member of one of his golf clubs, and I didn’t even know it!”

Jackson also said Trump was an “interesting character” and “more P.T. Barnum than politician.”

Jackson was asked whether he was a better golfer than Trump.

“I am, for sure,” he replied, reportedly smiling as he added: “I don’t cheat.”

But Trump wrote Tuesday that “to the best of my knowledge” he had never played golf with the actor:

I don’t know @SamuelLJackson, to best of my knowledge haven’t played golf w/him & think he does too many TV commercials—boring. Not a fan.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2016

This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of cheating on the links.  Last September, The Washington Post quoted three people, including rock musician Alice Cooper, accusing him of cheating.

Trump similarly denied having ever played golf with Cooper. He also denied knowing another of his accusers, Mark Mulvoy, the former managing editor of Sports Illustrated.

As for his third accuser, sportswriter Rick Reilly, Trump made it clear that he was not a fan of Reilly’s work.

“I always thought he was a terrible writer,” Trump told The Post. “I absolutely killed him, and he wrote very inaccurately. I would say that he’s a very dishonest writer.”

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