Sometimes when President Donald Trump is requested to weigh in on one thing horrible that may implicate his involvement, he waves it off by claiming he doesn’t “know much” about it. However, apparently, he simply made an exception to that rule.
Throughout a White Home press convention within the Oval Workplace Monday, a reporter requested Trump what he thinks about MAGA’s new ick, er, “it couple,” Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump, per a video published by The Associated Press.
Vanessa Trump is the ex-wife of the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. The previous couple tied the knot in 2005 and share 5 kids. In 2018, she filed for divorce.
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In response to the very urgent query about Woods becoming a member of Trump’s prolonged household, the president appeared happy that the legendary golfer was becoming a member of his clan.
He additionally revealed he knew about their relationship properly earlier than the couple made it official on Instagram late final month.
“They broke up fairly some time in the past, which to me was very unhappy as a result of I feel they’re each nice,” Trump mentioned of Vanessa Trump and his son. “Tiger really referred to as me a couple of months in the past… and he informed me about it. And I mentioned, ‘Tiger that’s good. That’s good.’ I’m very pleased for each. Allow them to each be pleased.”
Trump additionally couldn’t assist however point out that he has a “particular, superb relationship with Tiger,” whom Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019.
“I’ve performed golf with him a few instances over the previous month,” Trump mentioned. “And he’s a unbelievable man and a unbelievable athlete.”
However a love of golf isn’t the one factor Trump and Woods may bond over — they might additionally gush about their love of dishonest on their companions.
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Trump’s infidelity is fairly properly documented, being that it was on the heart of his hush money trial. Woods was uncovered as a serial cheater in 2009, after he crashed his SUV into a fireplace hydrant close to his Orlando house, and his ex-wife, Elin Nordegren, ran to the SUV with a golf membership and bashed in one of many car’s home windows.
At first it was assumed Nordegren inflicted additional harm to her husband’s automotive with a purpose to save him, however her motivations have been seemingly very totally different on reflection.
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After the accident, it was reported that Woods had an affair with a girl named Jaimee Grubbs. After Grubbs very candidly confirmed she had a sexual relationship with Woods, six different girls got here ahead as properly, prompting Woods to admit publicly about his infidelities. Because of this, Woods’ golf profession was stilted for fairly some time, and he and Nordegren received a divorce in 2010.
