Trump heads to golf course as US coronavirus death toll nears 100,000

Donald Trump has visited a golf course for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic struck - a day after a top physician said at White House briefing anyone playing should observe social distancing rules.

As coronavirus infections in the country reached 1.6m and the number of deaths passed 96,000, the president made his way to the Trump National Golf Club, at Sterling, Virginia.

The pool of White House press reporters who follow him say he was seen wearing a white cap and white polo shirt. One longtime correspondent said it was the president’s “185th golf outing spanning all or part of 247 days”.

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