Retired professional golfer Jack Nicklaus presents Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump with the 2024 Trump International Golf Club Most Improved Player Award March 24, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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President Joe Biden trolled Donald Trump Sunday night after his Republican challenger bragged about winning not one but two “club championship” trophies at his own Florida golf club.
“Congratulations, Donald. Quite an accomplishment,” Biden tweeted.
The jab at the golf-obsessed former president quickly went viral after being posted on Biden’s personal X account. As of Monday morning, it had garnered more than 13 million views and counting.
The Democrat’s social media team has been quick to criticize Trump this election cycle as it prepares for a rematch of the 2020 election.
Other social media users have already criticized Trump for his boast on Truth Social, which said: “It is a great honor to be at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach tonight, AWARDS NIGHT, to receive THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY AND THE SENIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP. TROPHY.”
“I WON BOTH!” Trump wrote.
“A large and talented field, a BIG and difficult course, made the game very exciting. The qualifiers and match play were incredible,” he wrote.
Tim O’Brien, a senior executive at Bloomberg Opinion, responded to Biden’s response by writing: “He’s too nice to notice that Trump is a notorious golf cheat.”
Others on X referenced sports writer Rick Reilly’s 2019 book “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.”
A user tweeted a video Sunday of Reilly in an interview talking about how Trump “tried to trick” legendary golfer Tiger Woods.
“Tiger freaking Woods,” Reilly said.
He described how Trump “smothers one,” knocking his ball into the water with a swing, then “tells his partner, throw me another one, they didn’t see,” Reilly recalled.
The writer also recounted how Trump “will tell people that he won club championships that he didn’t even play in. And then he won at least six or seven times tournaments where he was the only one to play in the tournament.
Trump’s supposed golf victories over the weekend may have served as a positive note for the former president in an otherwise stressful time.
Trump has until Monday to post bond on appeal to obtain a civil judgment for business fraud against him in the amount of more than $450 million. If he cannot post bail, Trump risks having New York Attorney General Letitia James attempt to seize his real estate and other assets to satisfy damages.
Shortly after midnight Sunday night, Trump wrote an article on Truth Social asking why the judge in his case should “be allowed to take away and sell very successful properties and assets that it took me years to zone, build and maintain in some of the best of its kind in the world – WHEN I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG!”
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