Talk about bad optics.  Donald Trump was on the golf course today.  It’s the 210th golf outing of his presidency.  According to the White House pool report, Trump was on the links at 10:30 this morning at his course in Sterling, Va.

Meanwhile, many victims of Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle don’t have food, water or electricity.

The situation on the ground in the Florida Panhandle is grim.  The Daily Beast reports from Panama City, Florida that residents are angry:

Down the street, Barbara Sanders stood outside her daughter’s unit, where she had come to stay during the hurricane.

“We’re not getting any help,” she said. “We need food. It’s just crazy.”

Sanders said that not a single relief agency had come by to check on them. Only the police had come and it was to tell everyone to leave. “They told us there’s nothing they can do and it’s gonna take a long time to rebuild,” Sanders said.

The western part of Florida’s Panhandle is traditionally the most conservative part of the state. Trump’s response to this storm though could have an impact on some voters there. Try telling that to Trump. No doubt he will give himself an A when he grades his response to storm victims (and everything else).

It’s just a little over three weeks before we know if this Trump election strategy has worked.  It is a strategy of one.  Trump alone thinks he can win the midterms for the GOP.  It’s why he’s suddenly been available to the media that was only yesterday “fake.”  Funny how that works.

But there’s a problem.  Take the campaign rallies, please!  They’ve become predictable and boring.  The hallmarks of the 2016 Trump campaign are now just freewheeling, unscripted lie-fests, where exaggeration knows no bounds.