Former President Donald Trump spent Thursday playing in the LIV Golf pro-am at his Trump National Doral Golf Club and afterward he took some time to throw a shot at the PGA Tour over the way they “mishandled” the situation.
“The Tour mishandled it so badly,” Trump said of the PGA’s decision not to partner with LIV and instead to suspend any golfers who played in LIV events. “The people at the top … something should happen with them. They mishandled it so badly. They not only had an advantage, they are dealing with very good people with unlimited money. They’re good people with unlimited money. And something could have been worked out very easily.”
It’s worth noting that the “unlimited money” has also been referred to as “blood money” considering the human rights violations of the Saudi government which uses its Public Investment Fund to finance LIV. Trump and his family are also extremely cozy with the Saudi government.
Trump says PGA Tour should have negotiated with LIV Golf, that Saudi backers are "great people with unlimited money.'' https://t.co/KuXjP7jz9K
— Bob Harig (@BobHarig) October 27, 2022
“The Tour decided to go, as Richard Nixon said, to stonewall it. That didn’t work out too well for them. As we said before, what they did is bad for golf. They could have had something so incredible. And now they’ve punched into the pension fund in order to lift up prize money. And the players are not happy with that, the pension fund. So it’s going to be very interesting.
Sporting his controversial red MAGA hat, Trump also made sure to get some shots in at current President Joe Biden, who defeated him in the 2022 U.S. election. Because of course, he did.
[SI.com]
