![]() ![]() Trump accused Saudi Arabia of a role in the September 11 attacks throughout his 2016 presidential run and decried the country’s abhorrent LGBTQ+ rights record during his final debate with Hillary Clinton. There was a time this marriage of convenience would have been considered improbable. “All of those golfers that remain ‘loyal’ to the very disloyal PGA, in all of its different forms, will pay a big price when the inevitable MERGER with LIV comes, and you get nothing but a big ‘thank you’ from PGA officials who are making Millions of Dollars a year,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. ![]() Trump has further leaned into sports-baron cosplay by advising golfers to side with LIV against the PGA Tour. On Thursday, he was due to take part in the Pro-Am at Bedminster alongside DeChambeau and Johnson. ![]() And there he was on Wednesday night at the LIV Golf welcome gala at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall, taking in a performance by Nelly and kibitzing with Caitlyn Jenner and a cadre of the PGA Tour defectors whose adulation he craves. In Trumpland, it was a fate worse than impeachment itself.īut the former US president is nothing if not durable. Only days after the 6 January insurrection, the PGA of America announced it was stripping Bedminster of the 2022 US PGA Championship, the supposed crowning achievement of his two decades as a golf course owner. He owned a team in the upstart United States Football League in the early 1980s, ponied up eight-figure fees to host prizefights at his Atlantic City casino before it went bankrupt, financed an American alternative to the Tour de France – the predictably named Tour de Trump – and made a splashy but failed bid for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills in the 2010s.Īs the walls closed in during the final days of his presidency, his Twitter account neutered and reputation stained for his role in inciting the US Capitol attack in 2021, Trump’s critics saw a certain poetic justice in the rejection he experienced from his favourite sport. The former US president has always placed a premium on sport as an inextricable stripe of American life and bought in accordingly. ![]()
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