Rick Reilly is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to his claim that Donald Trump is a golf cheat.
Reilly, who wrote a book titled, “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump,” reshared a post on X on Monday from Daily Beast reporter Leigh Kimmins McManus.
“I asked the White House to comment on accusations of Trump cheating at golf, using @ReillyRick’s analysis as an example,” McManus wrote. “Comms director Steven Cheung went nuclear: ‘Reilly is a washed up, pathetic loser who has beclowned himself with lies and cheating throughout his career which is why nobody takes him seriously. In fact, he suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his golf ball sized brain and can’t stand the countless championships President Trump has won.
“He’s right, though,” Reilly responded. “Trump does have ‘countless’ championships. You can’t count them, since they’re all fake. Try to find one at a course he DOESN’T own .”
Reilly returned to X five hours later with the challenge for the president.
“White House spokesman Steven Cheung says I’m lying about Trump cheating to win his (expletive) ‘championships,’” Reilly wrote. “So, for the next one, let me film Trump the whole way.
“If he wins without cheating, I’ll give him $100,000.”
Trump has yet to respond to the challenge.
Reilly has been fired up on social media since Trump recently claimed another title — the Bedminster Senior Club Championship and it was his Aug. 7 X post that prompted McManus’ question at the White House.
“Number of ‘championships’ he said he had last time: 24,” Reilly wrote while resharing a video that Trump shared of himself making a put and claiming 36 club championships. “Number he says he suddenly has now: 36. Number that his twisted ego just skipped: 11. Number of ‘actual’ championships he’s won: 0. “
There is no evidence that Trump cheated, but he did, in fact, claim the win at his own club once more during the recent tournament at Bedminster. The White House shared the scorecard from the event showing that the president finished atop the field with a gross score of 69.
It continues an impressive streak — provided the naysayers are not correct about the president fudging things out there — of winning his own club titles for the president.
Reilly wasn’t buying it, though.
“So a chubby 79-year-old with the yips whose caddies have to throw it out of bunkers and rough just shot a 69 to win by 10?” he wrote on X. “Sure.”
Heading into the event Riley posted on X, “Hey Trump, Tomorrow is the Senior Champ at Bedminster. Are you shameless enough to pretend you won it? Even after the whole planet saw you cheat in Scotland? Is your ego that sick?”
Reilly returned to that post on the day of the tournament and wrote, “Guess we got our answer. What a child.”
Reilly later shared a video on X that reportedly showed Trump’s caddy dropping a ball on the course for him at Bedminster during the tournament.
“So you know, it’s NEVER legal for your caddy to drop a ball,” Reilly wrote. “YOU can drop one, but never on a green. And since this was a full-score event, it’s not legal for Trump to drag the ball into the hole. No, no, never. Our president is a (expletive) golf cheat.”
He also shared another photo of the scorecard shared by the White House and wrote, “The 4 guys in Trump’s group finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th. Trump has a magic pencil.”
It was not just Reilly going after Trump with claims that he cheats on X.
All of this came after Trump was accused of cheating at golf while in Scotland recently.
Video reportedly of the president playing at his Turnberry Course appeared to show his caddy walking ahead of him, leaning down, and dropping a ball before continued to walk on.
Was it cheating? Well, folks on social media seem to think the clip catches the president in the act.
“Trump caught cheating at golf,” Molly Ploofkins wrote on X along with the clip. “Watch the guy in the red vest toss a ball behind him.”
Reilly reshared that post and wrote, “Well I’m just personally very disappointed in him.”
Another person shared the clip and wrote, “There was a thing in Rick Reilly’s book that said his dad heard Trump say he had lower handicap than Jack Nicklaus.”
Reilly responded to that, “That’s right. Jack’s handicap is 10 now and Trump continues to fluff up his BS handy to a 2.8, even though he hasn’t reported a score in years. Everybody from Tiger to Annikah to DJ to Ernie Els to Brad Faxon say he’s about ‘a 10 or 11.’ That doesn’t win club championships.”
The Meidas Touch account shared the video and just wrote, “Busted.”
“Amazing how Trump’s ball he hit into the deep rough just magically pops out of his caddie’s pocket and they all just play it off like Trump just hit it there,” Ron Filipkowski wrote on X. “29 time Club Champion!”
Or 36 time club champion.
Whatever the case, the president loves golf and competiting, and there’s now an interesting challenge on the table.
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