'The president and the putt': NYT shares 'simplistic' analogy that explains Trump

President Donald Trump gave the game away with a "simplistic" analogy when pressed by reporters on why he is taking a $400 million luxury plane from the Qatari government, wrote Shawn McCreesh for The New York Times on Monday — a gift far above and beyond anything a president has accepted from a foreign nation in modern history, and that even has some of Trump's most ardent supporters complaining smells rotten.

Specifically, he said, Trump offered up a parable that might be called "the...