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From July 11 to July 13, 2025, President Donald Trump channeled the Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week” work ethic, weaving diplomacy, leisure, and sports into a packed weekend. He announced a new trade agreement with the United Kingdom, golfed at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, and attended the FIFA Club World Cup final at MetLife Stadium.
By his bold leadership, President Trump significantly reduced the primary outside threat to America’s security when he ordered the neutering of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
This edition of Golf with THE Chuck, brought to you by the American Free News Network (AFNN), dives into a weekend that paired military precision with golfing greatness, all while saluting our armed forces.
President Donald Trump’s weekend of June 6–8, 2025, showcased his ability to seamlessly blend leisure with high-stakes leadership, turning a getaway at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, into a platform for significant policy and business advancements.
This past weekend, May 30 to June 1, 2025, Trump was at it again, blending high-stakes public appearances with strategic leisure in his signature style. Let’s slice through the facts, pin down the wins, and extract business lessons to make you a mogul in the making.
Leader selection and assessment is a critical leader task. Unfortunately, it is often based on technical skills or dominated by an HR process that may have little to do with virtue and leadership.
Is leadership a process? Processes have inputs and actions/activities that produce outputs. In virtue-based leadership, the inputs are Virtue, Competency, and Candor. The outputs are Integrity, Truth, and Trust.
While there are similarities and crossovers between morality, ethics, and virtue, they are not the same. For me, at least, morality is essentially based on operant conditioning—reward and punishment. Ethics are based on rules and systems. Both are mutable and will vary
Welcome to the first installment of Golf with The Chuck, where we dissect the business savvy behind President Donald Trump’s weekend activities, often tied to his time on the golf course.
Abstract: We live in a society and time that seems very fluid regarding moral and ethical standards and conduct. This is especially true for people on the polar extremes of the left/right divide, but affects all of us. To make the situation even more complex, most of us think we highly morally evolved. Those …
Discernment is perhaps one of the most important, but least studied and written about leadership skills. It is especially important for virtue-based leadership, which requires leaders to consider moral aspects of decisions.
Abstract: During my doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations at Vanderbilt, there were a few readings and discussions over whether there is even such a thing as a “leader” or “leadership”. This is related to the discussion over whether leaders are born—they have innate characteristics and capabilities—or made—they are developed, trained and educated. The …
Let’s be honest: sometimes President Trump gives the Left exactly what they want—a soundbite to twist, a moment of unfiltered bravado that distracts from his actual accomplishments.
The old president gave one of his finest speeches days before handing over the reins to a new president.
From time to time, I ruminate on the topic of who are the greatest men who ever lived, with key criteria considered being these:
Who had the greatest and most lasting impact on the most people?
Who overcame the greatest adversities to achieve his greatest accomplishments?
And lastly, who literally changed the world?
King Leonidas of Sparta, born around 540 BC, became one of the most legendary figures in Greek history through his leadership at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.
In the chaos of combat, a leader’s role is not just to guide their team to victory but to control the fury and aggression that battle demands.
There are three people who, more than anyone else, influenced my life and helped make me a success: my parents and my first platoon sergeant when I was a second lieutenant fresh out of West Point.
The saying “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” rings especially true today. Throughout history, great nations and empires have crumbled under the weight of their own internal issues.
This is Part 1 of a series on accountability and responsibility. As the graphic shows, the two should work together. But often the two are divorced, or at least separated.