A new Donald Trump golf clip surfaced one day after he bragged about winning 38 club championships, causing his critics to revive a long-standing debate about how many of those wins are real
22:34 ET, 29 Nov 2025Updated 22:44 ET, 29 Nov 2025
New Donald Trump golf footage has the sport talking
The latest peek at U.S. President Donald Trump’s golf swing became the butt of jokes thanks to a new clip that hit social media on Saturday.
Trump posted the footage himself on Truth Social — captioning it, “Winning is always nice!” — hours after he spent Thanksgiving telling the world that he’s a near scratch player with 38 “legitimate” club championship wins. The video filmed at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach shows the president dressed in a white polo and his trademark red hat, leaning over a chip shot just off the green.
The ball hops once, checks, and drops cleanly into the cup. Trump turns and walks away like a man who’s been making the shot for decades, and within 24 hours, the clip already crossed 116,000 views.
But the internet had questions, especially after Trump was compared to a toddler for the way he allegedly handles his tournaments.
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Trump went on record claiming he has now won 38 club championships, a number that continues to grow every time he revisits his golf accolades. Longtime sportswriter Rick Reilly and author of Commander in Cheat, has built an entire catalog tracking what he believes to be Trump’s golf story lines.
The president said that he had beaten a 27-year-old in a club championship “with no practice” and insisted every win was “legitimate.” Reilly responded on X with an insult to the president and dismissed each of his titles.
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“Ha! Trump adds about 10 every time he brings this up. Problem is, he hasn’t actually won any,” Reilly wrote. “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 previously agreed with old celebrity accusations that Trump’s caddies placed balls in better lies, re-place messy putts back to him, or get him back on the green if he launches one into the rough. Samuel L. Jackson, Mike Tirico, Alice Cooper, Oscar De La Hoya, and others have all claimed to have seen it firsthand.
Trump claims 38 club championships(Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
According to Roll Call, Trump’s Saturday schedule included a full round of golf in the morning, a return to Mar-a-Lago in the afternoon, and a “full lid” called by the White House one day after he posted about the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.
Trump was criticized for his approach toward the tragedy before shifting back to unrelated topics. According to the White House, Trump was briefed on the attack while at his golf course.
Trump is expericing record low approval ratings(Image: Twitter/X/LindseyGrahamSC)
Throughout all of Trump’s golf talk, the U.S. president’s approval rating continues to decline, and a recent poll indicates it has reached its second-lowest point since the start of his first term, around the time of the Capitol Riot.
The decline includes Democrats, Republicans, and registered Independents.
