Donald Trump loves golf however has a beef with the PGA Tour.
And he has by no means been one to draw back from controversy.
Add it up, and it ought to come as no shock that an LIV Golf occasion is being held this weekend at Trump Nationwide Golf Membership in Bedminster, N.J., however that the previous president additionally performed in Thursday’s pro-am upfront of the event.
“Frankly, what they’re doing for golf is so nice, what they’re doing for the gamers is so nice,” Trump informed ESPN of the Saudi-backed LIV throughout Thursday’s occasion. “The salaries are gonna go manner up. The PGA was not liked by a variety of the gamers, as you recognize, for a very long time. Now they've another and no person would’ve ever identified there was gonna be a gold rush like this.”
Trump and his son, Eric, had been teamed with LIV golfers Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau, who've performed golf with the previous president up to now. Trump wore a white polo shirt and a purple “Make America Nice Once more” cap and drove his personal cart, which was embellished with the presidential seal and carried his purple, white and blue golf bag.
He bogeyed the primary gap and was two-over after 4 holes.
Among the many crowd watching the previous president’s group had been his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner. Different celebrities participating within the occasion included Caitlyn Jenner, Charles Barkley and Lawrence Taylor.
In its first 12 months of existence, LIV Golf has been condemned by many for its ties to a Saudi authorities that has been accused of quite a few human rights violations.
Relations of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults oppose the tour. One group of 9/11 sufferer members of the family launched an advert marketing campaign criticizing Trump for internet hosting an LIV occasion so near the previous World Commerce Middle web site the place lots of them misplaced family members.
“This golf event is happening 50 miles from Floor Zero,” one man says in an advert.
“It’s disgusting,” one other lady provides.
Trump Nationwide Golf Membership was chosen to host the lads’s PGA Championship this 12 months, however the PGA of America pulled the event out of Trump’s membership days after a violent group of his supporters took half within the lethal Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump was requested Thursday by ESPN how he would reply to members of the family of 9/11 victims who oppose the occasion at his membership.
“Properly, no person’s gotten to the underside of 9/11, sadly, as to the maniacs that did that horrible factor to our metropolis, to our nation, to the world,” he mentioned. “So no person’s actually been there.”
Trump then went again to singing the praises of LIV.
“However I can inform you that there are a variety of actually nice folks which are out right here right now and we’re gonna have a variety of enjoyable and we’re going to rejoice and cash’s going to charity, some huge cash’s going to charity,” mentioned Trump, whose membership in Doral, Fla., will host an LIV occasion later this 12 months. “And you've got actually the most effective gamers on the planet, lots of the finest gamers on the planet, and shortly you’ll most likely have all of them as a result of bear in mind this, [when] there’s a merger, the those who didn’t come, they are going to by no means get something besides a thanks from those who took benefit.”
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