President Donald Trump on Sunday bragged about winning yet another golf championship ― but not everyone is buying it.
The president wrote on his Truth Social website that he and partner Tommy Urciuoli won the member-member championship at Trump’s Bedminster golf club.
Trump has a remarkable record of success at golf, but much of that success comes on his own courses, including at least three other championships at Trump clubs this year alone.
Sportswriter Rick Reilly ― who has golfed with Trump ― has said in the past there’s a reason for that: He cheats.
Reilly told MSNBC last year that Trump cheats “like a mafia accountant” and called his championships “fake as Velveeta cheese.”
“He’s never won a championship at a course he doesn’t own and operate,” Reilly said. “He’s played in Pebble Beach, he’s played in the Tahoe one, where there are rules and judges and cameras. And in those, he’s never finished in the top half. So he wins when anybody who disagrees that he won is out of the club. That’s how he gets it.”
Trump’s critics on social media also found it hard to believe that the president won yet another championship ― and, again, on a course he owns:
