After winning the election just two weeks ago, Donald Trump is already making some controversial moves that have citizens outraged by which issues he is choosing to prioritize.
Donald Trump obviously has a strong financial interest in professional golf as he has a business relationship with Saudi-backed LIV Golf and his golf courses have hosted a number of prestigious tournaments for LIV Golf and the PGA Tour over the years. Needless to say, he has obvious reasons to want to see the two rival golf leagues unified – and it seems like he is making those unification talks a priority.
“Even as he was filling out his Cabinet selections Friday, the president-elect played a round of golf with Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, according to two people familiar with the meeting. And at a UFC event Saturday night in New York, Trump sat between Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which launched LIV Golf in 2022 to compete with the PGA Tour,” Rick Maese wrote for the Washington Post this weekend.
“While the exact nature of and details from the meetings are uncertain, multiple people familiar with the process say the PGA Tour and the Saudi Public Investment Fund continue to discuss a partnership, even though an initial deadline to agree to terms passed more than 11 months ago.”
This also comes less than two weeks after Trump insisted earlier this month that these negotiations would not be a priority for him since the country faces “much bigger problems.”
“I would say it would take me the better part of 15 minutes to get that deal done,” Trump said on the “Let’s Go!” podcast with Jim Gray and Bill Belichick earlier this month. “I’m really going to work on other things, to be honest with you. I think we have much bigger problems than that. But I do think we should have one tour and they should have the best players in that tour.”
Trump clearly either changed his mind or was not exactly truthful during that interview. Either way, it’s pretty clear that he is prioritizing a situation that is critical to him personally over the “bigger problems” he claimed the country is facing. That’s pretty horrible news for the United States, and it led to a lot of reactions in the comments of the story.
“He wants PGA golf to return to his golf courses. The man is predictable. It’s always about corruption and him getting paid,” one person wrote in the comments.
“I’m so glad president-elect Trump is laser focused on the most important issues facing the United States of America. A statesman of the finest refinement,” someone else wrote sarcastically.
“I wonder if he will find some time to work something in for the poor/middle class people who voted him in,” another person wrote.
“Gee. There’s a problem that was clearly a focus of the election,” another person added.
“Of course. The most important issues facing the new administration revolve around where to play professional golf tournaments. Glad our man has his priorities straight,” another person wrote.
“Trump focusing on the important things,” someone else added sarcastically.
“Good to know what Trump’s priorities seem to be – golf,” another person wrote.
Obviously, this is just a sample of some of the reactions from normal, everyday people. But it’s pretty clear that people are not happy with the president-elect.
