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Racist Player in bunker with Trump after refusing to face reality

MARC Player earlier this week described his father Gary as “tone deaf” for accepting Donald Trump’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“In Denial, Wrong!” tweeted Marc of (Gary) Player’s decision to be honoured by the outgoing US President in the same week of the pro-Trump mob’s riot and attack on the US Capitol.

Player, a nine-time Major winner, and South Africa’s most celebrated professional golfer, is 85 years old, but even in these twilight years there was no seeing the bigger picture. All that mattered

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