A new video of President Donald Trump’s golf swing has gone viral, just hours after he claimed to be a near-scratch player with 38 ‘legitimate’ championships
22:49 ET, 29 Nov 2025Updated 22:56 ET, 29 Nov 2025
Donald Trump has shared a fresh video of himself golfing(Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Fresh footage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s golf swing has sparked ridicule on social media after emerging on Saturday.
Trump posted the clip — with a caption that read, “Winning is always nice!” — just a couple of days after declaring himself a near scratch golfer with 38 “legitimate” club championship victories on Thanksgiving. Filmed at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, the video shows the president wearing a white polo shirt and his signature red cap, hunched over a chip shot near the green.
The ball bounces once, stops, and rolls straight into the hole. Trump turns and strolls away like someone who’s nailed the shot countless times, and the footage racked up over 116,000 views within a day.
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However, social media users raised eyebrows, particularly after Trump was likened to a “toddler” regarding how he reportedly manages his tournaments.
Trump publicly stated he’s now secured 38 club championships, a figure that keeps climbing whenever he discusses his golfing achievements. Veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly, author of Commander in Cheat, has dedicated considerable effort to documenting what he considers to be Trump’s golf narratives.
The president claimed he’d defeated a 27-year-old in a club championship “with no practice” and maintained every victory was “legitimate.”
Reilly fired back on X with a dig at the president and rejected all of his titles. “Ha! Trump adds about 10 every time he brings this up. Problem is, he hasn’t actually won any,” Reilly wrote.
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“You beat Trump, he throws you out of the club. It’s like when you let your toddler beat you in a foot race. He thinks it’s real.”
Reilly has previously backed up longstanding celebrity claims that Trump’s caddies strategically position balls in more favorable spots, allow him do-overs on messy putts, or retrieve his ball from the rough back onto the green. Samuel L.
Jackson, Mike Tirico, Alice Cooper, Oscar De La Hoya, and multiple others have all said they’ve witnessed it themselves.
According to Roll Call, Trump’s Saturday itinerary featured a complete round of golf in the morning, followed by a return to Mar-a-Lago in the afternoon, with the White House calling a “full lid” just one day after he posted about the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.
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Trump faced backlash for his response to the tragedy before pivoting back to unrelated matters. The White House confirmed Trump received a briefing on the attack while he was at his golf course.
Amid all of Trump’s golf-related commentary, the U.S. president’s approval rating keeps dropping, with a recent poll showing it has hit its second-lowest level since the beginning of his first term, comparable to the period following the Capitol Riot.
The drop encompasses Democrats, Republicans, and registered Independents.
