Retired skilled golfer Jack Nicklaus presents Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump with the 2024 Trump Worldwide Golf Membership Most Improved Participant award on March 24, 2024, in West Palm Seashore, Florida.
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President Joe Biden trolled Donald Trump late Sunday after his Republican challenger bragged about profitable not one however two “membership championship” trophies at his personal Florida golf membership.
“Congratulations, Donald. Fairly the accomplishment,” Biden tweeted.
The sharp jab on the golf-obsessed former president rapidly went viral after it was posted on Biden’s private X account. By Monday morning, it had garnered greater than 13 million views and counting.
The Democrat’s social media crew has been fast this election cycle to zing Trump as they put together for a rematch of the 2020 election.
Different social media customers already roasted Trump for his boast on Reality Social, which mentioned, “It’s my nice honor to be at Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore tonight, AWARDS NIGHT, to obtain THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY & THE SENIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY.”
“I WON BOTH!,” wrote Trump.
“A big and {golfing} gifted membership, a GREAT and troublesome course, made the play very thrilling. The qualifying and match play was superb,” he wrote.
Tim O’Brien, a senior government at Bloomberg Opinion, replied to Biden’s clap-back, writing, “He is too good to notice that Trump is a infamous cheater at golf.”
Others on X referenced sports activities author Rick Reilly’s 2019 guide “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.”
One consumer tweeted Sunday a video of Reilly in an interview recounting how Trump “tried to cheat” the legendary golfer Tiger Woods.
“Tiger freaking Woods,” mentioned Reilly.
He described how Trump “chokes one,” sending his ball into the water with a swing, after which “says to his companion, throw me one other one, they did not see,” Reilly recalled.
The author additionally recounted how Trump can be “telling people who he gained membership championships that he did not even play in. After which he gained at the least six or seven occasions tournaments the place he was the one man enjoying within the match.”
Trump’s alleged {golfing} victories over the weekend might have served as a excessive observe for the previous president in an in any other case worrying interval.
Trump has till Monday to submit an attraction bond to safe a civil enterprise fraud judgment in opposition to him of greater than $450 million. If he can not submit the bond, Trump faces the prospect of New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James probably shifting to grab his actual property and different property to fulfill the injury award.
Shortly after midnight Sunday evening, Trump wrote a Reality Social submit asking why the decide in his case ought to “be allowed to remove, and dump, very profitable properties and property that took me years to zone, construct and nurture into a number of the better of their sort wherever within the World – WHEN I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG!”