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US senators have passed a sweeping tax cuts bill, paving the way for Donald Trump's first big legislative victory. The package would mark the biggest tax overhaul since the 1980s. It was passed by 51 votes to 49, after a series of amendments in a marathon session. Democrats complained it only benefited the wealthy and big business. The plan sees a sharp cut in corporation tax, but a Senate committee finding has warned it would add $1tn (£742bn) to the budget deficit. President Trump wants the measures enacted by the end of the year and he congratulated Republicans for taking the US "one step closer to delivering massive tax cuts for working families". The Senate will now have to merge its legislation with that passed last month by the House of Representatives, before it can be signed into law by the president. Reality Check: Will tax plan hurt Trump? Does the US debt of $20tn matter? How does US tax plan compare to other countries? On Saturday, a triumphant Mr Trump told supporters at a New York fundraiser: "So last night we passed in the history of the country, the largest tax cuts and reform... what we're doing is, if you look at it, we're going to grow the country, we're going to grow jobs. We're going to be growing everything." The move is as a major victory for Mr Trump, who since taking office has struggled to get major legislative movement in Congress - including fulfilling his vow to repeal and replace Obamacare. His presidency has also been dogged by an independent investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US election and possible collusion with his campaign team. On Friday, ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn became the Trump administration's most senior member to be charged in the investigation. How did we get here? Analysis: Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington The US Senate, a seemingly insurmountable roadblock for the Republican agenda for much of this year, has at last given its assent to a major piece of legislation. Perhaps unsurprisingly it was sweeping tax cuts - always beloved by conservatives - that finally brought the party together and gave President Donald Trump the opportunity to claim a landmark legislative achievement. It wasn't always pretty. Senate negotiators were handwriting amendments to the massive bill practically up until the final votes were taken. Deals within deals were cut to satisfy recalcitrant legislators. Democrats howled at the permanent cuts provided to corporations, while middle-class taxpayer benefits had sunset clauses. In the end, however, a combination of hope and fear were enough to drag a slim majority into the yes column. The hope is that a booming economy will give Republicans a chance to run on their tax policy when they stand before voters next November. The fear was that yet another failure would have led to a revolt among the party's big donors and traditional business constituencies. The House and Senate must now smooth out differences in their bills and vote on the compromise. It's not the end of the race, but the finish line is in sight. What's in the new tax bill? Presiding over the Senate, Vice-President Mike Pence declared the 51-49 victory to applause from Republicans in the early hours of Saturday morning. The final draft of the bill went through several changes in order to bring reluctant Republicans on board. Republicans have a 52-48 majority in the Senate. Random tax provisions you may have missed Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the corporate tax rate would be permanently lowered from 35% to 20%, while future foreign profits of US-based firms would be mainly exempt from tax. The measures were passed despite the non-partisan Senate Joint Committee on Taxation warning on Thursday that the bill would add significantly to the federal deficit over a decade. The committee's findings contradicted a White House claim that economic growth would compensate for the tax cuts. Most Americans across all income levels would see modest tax breaks until 2026 and the committee said after that families earning under $75,000 a year would likely face higher taxes. Some opponents highlighted a measure that would end a requirement introduced under Obamacare for most taxpayers to buy health insurance or face a fine. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, scrapping the mandate would push up insurance premiums and lead to 13 million people losing cover by 2027. There were some last minute changes, including a $10,000 property tax deduction as requested by Senator Susan Collins, one of the Republicans who had been reluctant to back the bill. How did senators react? After the vote, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said his opponents would pay the price at the ballot box in mid-term elections next year. "My Republican friends will ultimately pay consequences for this bill in 2018 and beyond. The Republican party will never again be the party of tax cuts for middle-class people," he warned. He said the measures would endanger social security and medical provision. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders was among the most vocal critics, declaring during the debate that the American treasury was "being looted". But Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who succeeded in bringing dissenting party members into line, said the legislation would prove to be "just what the country needs to get growing again". He brushed aside complaints that it was pushed through without proper scrutiny, saying: "Everybody had plenty of opportunity to see the measure. You complain about process when you're losing and that's what you heard on the floor tonight." Republican Senator Bill Cassidy also praised the bill, saying "working families and middle-income families across the nation will be better off". Democrats were angry about the last-minute revisions, complaining that they had not been given enough time to digest the nearly 500-page document, with handwritten changes to the legislation. The only Republican senator who refused to back the legislation was Bob Corker. "I am not able to cast aside my fiscal concerns and vote for legislation that... could deepen the debt burden on future generations," he said.

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Government reveals Sir Kim Darroch has formally raised concerns after US president tweeted videos posted by Britain First Britain’s ambassador to the US has conveyed to the White House the government’s concerns about Donald Trump’s promotion on Twitter of material created by the far-right group Britain First, the Guardian understands. Theresa May condemned the president’s decision on Wednesday to share propaganda videos tweeted by the deputy leader of Britain First and is expected to address the issue again in a speech in the Middle East on Thursday. But government sources revealed that Sir Kim Darroch, the ambassador to Washington, had already raised the issue formally. In Westminster, MPs lined up to condemn the president’s behaviour, and urge the government to formally cancel the state visit invitation made by May when she became the first world leader to visit the Trump White House last year. At an urgent debate on the issue in the House of Commons, the home secretary, Amber Rudd, told MPs Trump was wrong to retweet propaganda from Britain First, but told his critics to remember the “bigger picture” of the UK’s close relationship with the US. The home secretary was giving a statement in response to a question in the House of Commons tabled by Labour backbencher Stephen Doughty, about “the activities of Britain First, online hate speech and the sharing of inflammatory content online by the president of the United States, Donald Trump”. Rudd reiterated Wednesday’s comments from Downing Street, saying: “We have been clear: President Donald Trump was wrong to retweet videos posted by far-right group Britain First.” But she refused to agree with several MPs’ demands that the planned state visit be formally cancelled. Rudd said: “As home secretary I can tell the house that the importance of the relationship between our countries, the unparalleled sharing of intelligence between our countries, it has undoubtedly saved British lives. That is the bigger picture here and I would urge people to remember that,” she said. On Wednesday, Trump retweeted three Britain First videos, which May’s spokesman described as “the antithesis of the values this country respects”. Overnight Trump responded: “Theresa@theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!” Even Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader and an ally of Trump, said: “I do think these videos are very bad taste and he showed poor judgment. Of that I have no doubt at all.” Speaking of the White House’s defence, he added: “I think that was a mistake. There are times when perhaps it’s better to put your hands up and say: ‘I got this wrong’ and frankly try to move on.” When asked about the possibility of a state visit from Trump in parliament, Rudd restated the government’s long-held position that an invitation had been extended, and accepted – but no date had been set. Privately, government ministers do not expect such a visit to take place in the foreseeable future, amid concerns about the possibility of widespread protests. Chris Bryant, a senior Labour backbencher, has written to May urging her to go further, and officially ban Trump from entering the UK on the grounds he is condoning fascism and his presence is “not conducive to the public good”. Bryant, a former Foreign Office minister, said the prime minister should issue a prohibition order against the president like those that apply to other far-right figures from the US. Advertisement He cited the cases of two US far-right bloggers, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, who were banned by May in 2013 from entering the UK to take part in English Defence League rallies, as precedents for taking action against Trump. In his letter to May, he said: “I am writing to you to ask you and the home secretary to take immediate action to ban the president of the United States, Donald Trump, from entering the United Kingdom, due to his apparent support for far-right groups in this country. “In retweeting Jayda Fransen’s posts, it is absolutely clear to me that President Trump is supporting and condoning fascism and far-right activity. This activity has frequently taken the form of violence on our streets. Ms Fransen herself has a long history of racism and Islamophobia, some of it criminal. Many of the people you have rightly banned from entering the UK were guilty of less than this.” In parliament, Doughty said the president’s decision to share Britain First material showed he was “racist, unthinking or incompetent – or all three”. He asked whether the prime minister had spoken to Trump about his tweets, and whether the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, would summon the US ambassador to discuss the issue. The US president’s visit to the UK has been delayed over US fears about the potential scale of anti-Trump protests but No 10 has confirmed that the invitation still stands. The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, said Labour would “bow to no one in our affection and respect for the American people”. But she added: “The fact that the 45th president chose to retweet material from Britain First is not just offensive to British people of Muslim heritage, it is not just offensive to British people of BME heritage, it is offensive to all British people, and it is also an attack on the values of this country.” Briefing journalists on Thursday morning, the prime minister’s official spokesman said: “Firstly I should say that the overwhelming majority of Muslims in this country are law-abiding people who abhor extremism. The PM has been clear where Islamist extremism takes place it should be tackled head-on and we are working hard to do that both at home and internationally, including with our US partners.” “For an example of that I would point you to the work the PM is doing with the US president and [the French leader] President [Emmanuel] Macron and others to get terrorist content removed from the internet as quickly as possible.” David Lammy, a Labour MP, said Trump was “not welcome in my country and in my city”. But Nadhim Zahawi, a Conservative MP, wrote to Trump urging him to make time to visit diverse areas of the UK such as Manchester, Birmingham and Coventry, saying it would show him how Muslim communities are living peaceably in the UK.

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At the 2017 LA Auto Show on Wednesday, Volvo revealed a monumental new means of owning and operating their vehicles. For $600 a month, the car company will sell customers an XC40 crossover SUV. That figure includes not only the cost of the car, tax and delivery, but also insurance (regardless of your age or location) and access to Volvo's new "concierge" service. All you have to pay for is the gas you use. They're calling it Care by Volvo. "What we think is lacking today is there's ways to simplify getting your hands on a car, like getting a lease," Chief Digital Officer, Atif Rafiq, told Engadget. "But a subscription is entirely different that because it solves for a bunch of wider things in actually owning a car. It's not just getting the car, it's maintaining it, it's paying for additional things it needs like insurance. That's all that in one flat fee is something simpler but is also more transparent." You'll of course still be able to buy Volvos outright or lease them if you prefer. Gallery: Volvo XC40 This follows last week's news that the Swedish car company plans to sell "tens of thousands" of autonomous-ready XC90s to Uber between 2019 and 2021 for the ride sharer's self-driving livery vehicle service. The two companies have been working in close coordination to develop the vehicles, which are based on Volvo's Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). These vehicles will incorporate all the "safety, redundancy and core autonomous driving" hardware to make the autonomous cars street legal, according to the company's press release. Uber, for its part, will supply the self-driving software. "We met up through a connection we got a couple of years back and understood quite early that we had a mutual interest here in developing autonomous cars," Senior Vice President of Research & Development, Henrik Green, explained to Engadget. "We're developing the base car that has the redundancy, the electrical and the software architecture to drive a car that is then steered by an autonomous computer." Volvo's collaboration with Uber is not the extent of its self-driving aspirations, mind you. "We are focusing our internal resources and our skills to develop the base car for autonomous drive," Green continued. "Next to that we are working on our own autonomous drive system for consumer, private owner experience, what we call the level 4 autopilot that we aim to go to market with in the 2021 timeframe." In effect, the Uber collaboration is acting as a prototype testbed for the car company, allowing them to more quickly develop these autonomous systems. To that end, Volvo has three initiatives in the works to get there. "We have the base car that needs to be compatible with the self driving system," Green said. "We have our own development of an autonomous driver application for for retail customers." That's the software "brain" that actually directs the vehicle, a system Volvo's developed in collaboration with the company, Zenuity. "Then, thirdly, what we're talking about here is what we call the Drive Me initiative and that's a research project where the main focus is to understand how humans interact with the self-drive system," Green concluded. Despite the quickly approaching 2021 timeframe for rollout, there remain a number of technical and, perhaps more importantly, policy-based issues that must be overcome. Similar to how the first few generations of mobile phones were limited to specific coverage areas, self-driving cars might also only work in designated spaces. "When we launch the first commercial applications for the autopilot," Green said. "I believe there will be designated areas where [its use] is approved and safe, and it's all tested and the mapping is done. And those maps we grow over time -- quite rapidly, I hope."

The value of one bitcoin has gone past $10,000 (£7,493). The virtual currency reached the benchmark for the first time, just days after it passed $9,000. It caps a remarkable rise in value for the crypto-currency, which was trading below $1,000 at the start of the year. Some experts believe the asset still has far to soar, but others say it represents a speculative bubble with nothing tangible at its core that could burst any time. The total value of all the bitcoins in existence has now surpassed $167bn. What's behind the Bitcoin gold rush? New heights Bitcoin first reached $1,000 in late-2013 and then dipped significantly before starting a volatile climb to its current value. It is not entirely clear what has driven the sudden rise in value, especially because the past few weeks have been marked by action by some financial regulators to limit its use. One factor that may have helped was the US-based derivatives marketplace operator CME Group's announcement at the start of the month that it planned to launch a Bitcoin futures product before the end of 2017, which bolstered confidence in its prospects. Another was a decision to drop a controversial plan known as Segwit2x. This would have altered the way Bitcoin's underlying technology, the blockchain, worked, to help it handle more transactions. But the move risked splitting the community. Many industry watchers believe the rapid rise in value will not be sustained and expect its value to suddenly fall sharply. Bitcoins were first produced in 2009 and took a long time to become an accepted holder of monetary value that could be swapped for real-world cash. One early transaction involved using 10,000 bitcoins to buy two pizzas. The boom has led to a general rise in many other virtual currencies. One, known as Ethereum, is now worth about $480, but at the start of 2017 each one was worth only about $10. Many others are also trying to profit from the growing interest in crypto-currencies. Many malware writers are now seeking to install software on vulnerable websites that create or "mine" the coins. In addition, scammers have sent fake text messages to people's phones, claiming they own some of the digital currency, in an effort to tempt them into opening a dangerous link.

nfiniti debuts the new QX50 SUV which has a brand-new petrol engine under the hood which could be a complete diesel killer. The internal compression engine allows the petrol engine to combust much more efficiently than a typical petrol. It will be able to allow efficiency that you would typically associate with a diesel in a petrol unit. Dubbed the ‘VC-Turbo’ 2.0-litre four-cylinder which has compression ratio between 8:1 to 14.1 for ultimate efficiency. When the driver wants more power the engine can compress at 8:1 and then drop down to 14:1 for a more economical drive. What it does is alter the reach of the piston to improve the overall fuel efficiency. Infiniti claims that it could improve overall efficiency by 35 per cent compared to the old QX50 V6. "Variable compression ratio technology represents a breakthrough in powertrain development," said Infiniti VP Randy Parker. "The QX50, powered by our VC-Turbo, is the first production vehicle ever to give drivers an engine that transforms on demand, setting a new benchmark for powertrain capability and refinement." The technology is not all too dissimilar to the SKYACTIV-X engine Mazda is working on for its vehicles. “VC-Turbo technology is a step change for Infiniti,” said Roland Krueger, president of Infiniti. “It is a revolutionary next-step in optimising the efficiency of the internal combustion engine.” It also develops 264bhp and 404Nm of torque and will cost around $30,000 when it goes on sale.

here can be no final decisions on the future of the Irish border until the UK and the EU have reached a trade agreement, Liam Fox has said. The UK's international trade secretary also blamed the EU for Brexit delays. The comments came after the Irish Republic's EU commissioner said Dublin could veto Brexit trade talks. The EU has said "sufficient progress" has to be made on the Irish border before negotiations on a future relationship can begin. Downing Street has said the whole of the UK will leave both the customs union and the single market when it leaves the EU in 2019. "We don't want there to be a hard border but the UK is going to be leaving the customs union and the single market," Mr Fox told Sky News. He added: "We can't come to a final answer to the Irish question until we get an idea of the end state. And until we get into discussions with the EU on the end state that will be very difficult - so the quicker we can do that the better, and we are still in a position where the EU doesn't want to do that." Mr Fox accused the European Commission of having an "obsession" with ever-closer union between EU member states, which was delaying progress in Brexit talks. 'Play tough' Phil Hogan, the EU's agriculture commissioner, told the Observer that staying in the customs union would negate the need for a hard border - with customs posts and possible passport checks - on the island. He said Dublin would "play tough to the end" over its threat to veto trade talks until it had guarantees over the border. DUP hits out at Irish government's Brexit stance Brexit: All you need to know Six things to watch if Brexit puzzles you Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was "worried" by Mr Fox's comments, adding that Labour would not take continued membership of the single market and the customs union off the table. "I think the one thing that we don't want to do is jeopardise any movement quickly, because we need movement to enable us to get into the proper trade negotiations," Mr McDonnell told ITV's Peston on Sunday. "So I'm hoping that isn't a Downing Street-sanctioned statement that's he's made." The EU has given Prime Minister Theresa May until 4 December to come up with further proposals on issues including the border, the Brexit divorce bill and citizens' rights, if European leaders are to agree to moving on to trade talks. But Mr Hogan accused some in the British government of having what he called "blind faith" about securing a comprehensive free-trade deal after Brexit. He said it was a "very simple fact" that "if the UK or Northern Ireland remained in the EU customs union, or better still the single market, there would be no border issue". In these circumstances regulations on either side of the border would remain the same, and so a near-invisible border would be possible. The Irish government has always insisted there must not be a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar saying he must have written assurance from the UK before Brexit talks can move on. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said the UK's desire for no hard border on the island of Ireland was "aspirational". Report suggests 'low friction' Brexit border solution UK approach to Brexit 'chaotic' - leaked Irish report Brexit and the Irish border: Is all as it outwardly appears? It comes as Ireland's deputy prime minister faces a motion of no confidence over her handling of a case involving a whistle-blower alleging corruption within the police. The issue could see Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar's coalition government fall and an election held before Christmas. In her speech in Florence, this September, Mrs May restated that both the UK and EU would not accept any physical infrastructure at the border. The Democratic Unionist Party said Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK must not be different. Arlene Foster, the leader of the DUP, which is in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with the Conservative government, said she would not support "any suggestion that Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the UK, will have to mirror European regulations". Suggestions for alternate arrangements have included a new partnership that would "align" customs approaches between the UK and the EU, resulting in "no customs border at all between the UK and Ireland".

Mahindra is the only company in India currently to manufacture electric cars and though the sales might not be great, the company has been sticking it out and making it work. Currently the sale of the company reflects that we Indians are in no hurry to buy electric cars. I said that, because in the first 7 months of the current financial year, Mahindra has managed to sell 600 odd electric cars and that's quite good considering that the company manufactures 100 of them every month. But the demand is about to go up and Mahindra wants to be the first one in that segment to offer as many choices as it possibly can, which is why it announced that there'll be two electric vehicles that will be launched in India by 2019. (Mahindra e2OPlus) Dr. Pawan Goenka, Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra said, "Our first new electric car will come by 2018 and the second one will be launched by the end of 2019 and we are very excited for both." He went on to state that the two cars will be based on current models but did not give out any more details on this front. However, we got to know that the company will be investing up to ₹ 600 crore spread across three years to build these cars. We expect both the cars to be exported from India but this clearly is a step in the right direction. This will of course mean that the company will ramp up production too at its plant in Bengaluru. (The Mahindra KUV100 NXT might get an electric drivetrain as well) Currently, the company manufactures 100 EVs a day and production capacity will be ramped up to 1,000 cars per month in the next six months and Mahindra has plans to further push the production mark to 5,000 units by 2019. While it's too early to say which cars will get the electric drive, the KUV100 is a likely candidate. We might get a glimpse of the company's plan at the 2018 Auto Expo and we wait to know more. For the latest auto news and reviews, follow CarAndBike on Twitter, Facebook, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Compare Mahindra Scorpio with Immediate Rivals

In another busy week, the president feuds with LaVar Ball, defends Roy Moore, and faces ominous news in the Russia inquiry – but finds time for golf Each week, Trump seems to make more news than most presidents do in a lifetime. The Guardian is keeping track of it all in this series, every Saturday Faced with a quiet moment, Donald Trump tends to stir up a spat with a sports star or a celebrity, seemingly in order to open new fronts in America’s “culture wars” and reassure his base about which side he’s on. When it comes to sports, Trump’s targets are often African American, and he pursued a few such targets this week. Regular readers may remember that when last week the president asked China to free three UCLA basketball players accused of shoplifting, his main concern was that the players would thank him, which they did. But when LaVar Ball, the father of one of the arrested players and an inveterate attention seeker himself, questioned just how critical a role Trump actually played, it enraged the president. “I should have left them in jail!” he tweeted on Sunday, adding six hours later that he “should have gotten his son [LiAngelo Ball] out during my next trip to China instead … Very ungrateful!” Trump – whose sons Donald Jr and Eric are well-known hunters – also gave more clues about his perhaps surprisingly critical views on the US Fish and Wildlife Service plan to allow imports of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia, tweeting: “Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed to change my mind that this horror show in any way helps conservation of Elephants or any other animal.” Returning to his racially tinged offensive, Trump singled out Marshawn Lynch of the Oakland Raiders for sitting down during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner. “Great disrespect!” tweeted the president, adding another dog whistle for the base when he pointed out that Lynch had stood up “for the Mexican anthem”. Black athletes have been protesting during the national anthem since the summer, to highlight police violence and racial injustice. Tuesday Sexual misconduct accusations against the Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore are a less divisive issue, at least outside Alabama – Moore has been condemned widely, including by numerous GOP figures. But after some prevaricating Trump came down on the candidate’s side. Asked the memorable question “Is Roy Moore, [allegedly] a child molester, better than a Democrat?”, Trump pointed out that Moore denied the claims against him, one of which involves a woman who was 14 at the time, and said: “I can tell you one thing for sure: we don’t need a liberal person in there, a Democrat.” Trump has himself been accused by numerous women of sexual harassment. He denies the claims. His stance prompted a rare show of unity from New York’s fiercely rivalrous tabloids: As Thanksgiving approached, Trump took part in the tradition of pardoning a couple of turkeys, with the White House Instagram account asking beforehand: “Which turkey should President Trump pardon?” Reports that Donald Trump Jr, Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort were madly refreshing the page could not be confirmed at press time. Wednesday After getting up bright and early to resume his feuds with Ball and the kneeling NFL players, Trump informed his Twitter followers he would be “having meetings and working the phones from the Winter White House in Florida (Mar-a-Lago)”. (Donald, stop trying to make “Winter White House” happen – it’s not going to happen.) A White House spokesperson, however, was less on-message, telling press travelling with the president she expected a “low-key day”, according to the pool report shared by journalists. Within minutes, a correction arrived: “While the White House communications staff expects the press pool to have a ‘low-key day’, the president will NOT have a low-key day and has a full schedule of meetings and phone calls.” Just over an hour later, the Trump motorcade set off from Mar-a-Lago, arriving at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach at 9.26am. Various parts of the White House and Republican party had a similarly full schedule, in their case plugging various bits of Trump-related Christmas merch: Thursday Trump made a Thanksgiving visit to Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet in Florida, handing out sandwiches and asking one musclebound fellow if he could beat him at arm wrestling. He then spent four hours at his golf club, before heading back to Mar-a-Lago for a Thanksgiving meal with friends and family. The menu included “turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes w marshmallows, a variety of baked goods, local produce and cheeses, red snapper and Florida stone crab”, according to Melania’s spokeswoman. “Dessert includes various cakes and pies,” she added. But the worries of the world intruded with reports that lawyers for the former national security adviser Michael Flynn have stopped working with Trump’s team, suggesting Flynn may now be cooperating with the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election and any links to Trump’s campaign. If true, that could be a worrying sign for the president. Friday Trump returned to the golf course on Friday at just after 9am, this time in the company of the professionals Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson – and unusually, he admitted as much on Twitter, perhaps unable to resist the name-drops. The president was careful, however, to make clear he would not spend the whole day on the green. “I will be heading over to Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, to play golf (quickly) with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson,” he tweeted. “Then back to Mar-a-Lago for talks on bringing even more jobs and companies back to the USA!” He wrapped up at about 1.30pm, spending a similar amount of time there as he had the previous two days. “I play golf to relax,” Trump said in one of many tweets slamming Barack Obama’s golf habit in 2011. “My company is in great shape. @BarackObama plays golf to escape work while America goes down the drain.” Since you’re here … … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. 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