President Joe Biden couldn’t resist paying a sardonic praise to his 2024 election rival Donald Trump on Sunday after the Republican bragged about being awarded not one however two trophies at his personal Florida golf membership.
The previous president excitedly introduced on his Reality Social platform that he’d “WON BOTH” the Membership Championship Trophy and Senior Membership Championship Trophy on the Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore. “Congratulations, Donald,” Biden wrote in an X publish alongside a screengrab of his political opponent’s brag. “Fairly the accomplishment.”
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Trump’s publish about his beautiful achievement on the par 72 course additionally famous the standard of his competitors. “A big and {golfing} gifted membership, a GREAT and tough course, made the play very thrilling,” he wrote. “The qualifying and match play was wonderful.” He added that it was his “nice honor” to obtain the trophies at an awards ceremony on the membership, the place a “massive and distinguished group” can be in attendance. “Very thrilling, thanks!!!” Trump added.
Biden was not alone in mocking Trump’s gloating, with others likening it to former North Korean dictator’s Kim Jong Il’s purported spherical at a Pyongyang course that included a mind-blowing 5 holes-in-one, whereas others questioned the chance of a 77-year-old pretty profitable the particular trophies handed to Trump.
The previous president has beforehand boasted of comparable triumphs at his different golf equipment. “I’m happy to report, for those who care, that I simply received the Senior Membership Championship (should be over 50 years previous!) at Bedminster (Trump Nationwide Golf Membership), capturing a spherical of 67,” he wrote in on Reality Social final August. Acknowledging that some folks may suppose his rating “sounds low,” he assured skeptics that many “folks watch, plus I’m surrounded by Secret Service Brokers.” “Not a lot you are able to do even in case you wished to, and I don’t,” he wrote, presumably referring to dishonest. “For some cause, I’m only a good golfer/athlete – I’ve received many Membership Championships, and it’s at all times an awesome honor!”
Trump’s rating in that spherical, as Mediaite highlighted on the time, was eight strokes higher than six-time main winner Phil Mickelson managed on the identical course simply two weeks earlier, an astonishing achievement even when—because the report famous—it was seemingly that Trump had not been enjoying from the identical tees as Mickelson and different course adjustments could have made it simpler “for the on a regular basis gamers.”
The presumptive Republican nominee, undoubtedly a robust golfer who was criticized for spending a lot of his presidency on fairways, has confronted a number of accusations of outright dishonest by others who’ve performed with him.
He’s been accused of faking his rating throughout a spherical with Tiger Woods, mendacity in regards to the variety of membership championships he’s received, and usually having his ball moved into higher positions by caddies and even Secret Service brokers, based on the Related Press.
Boxer Oscar De La Hoya stated he caught Trump participating in “unbelievable” dishonest throughout a spherical on the Trump Nationwide Golf Membership in Los Angeles. Rock Star Alice Cooper, discussing the “worst movie star golf cheat” in a 2012 interview, answered: “I performed with Donald Trump one time. That’s all I’m going to say,” based on The Washington Put up. Trump denied having ever performed with Cooper, including: “That’s a horrible factor to say about folks, particularly me.”
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