{"id":112656,"date":"2025-09-02T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112656\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:34:08","slug":"presidents-golf-trip-quashes-speculation-over-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112656\/","title":{"rendered":"President’s golf trip quashes speculation over health"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump is just fine, he said in a message to followers, as he returned to the White House from a day at his Virginia golf club last weekend.<\/p>\n

“NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE,” he wrote on Truth Social \u2014 a nod to the swirl of weekend speculation about his wellbeing.<\/p>\n

That capitalised missive was followed by a steady stream of social media posts on Sunday evening and Monday morning \u2014 on everything from India tariffs, COVID-19 vaccines and crime \u2014 before he returned to Trump National Golf Club for the Labor Day public holiday.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/US President Donald Trump, right, walks with his granddaughter Kai Trump at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia on Saturday. (AP)<\/p>\n

Trump made 26 public engagements last month \u2014 most recently, a three-plus-hour cabinet meeting last Tuesday where the president fielded questions on topics from Taylor Swift’s engagement to global conflicts.<\/p>\n

So it was certainly unusual when, for three weekdays at the end of August, Trump’s public schedule went uncharacteristically dark.<\/p>\n

There were no events on his schedule last Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, and the president spent his Labor Day weekend in Washington also with no public appearances scheduled.<\/p>\n

The conspicuous absence lit conspiratorial corners of the internet and group chats ablaze with questions.<\/p>\n

But on Saturday, he emerged, spotted by pool reporters in a white polo, black pants, and signature red “Make America Great Again” hat on the way to his Virginia golf club. <\/p>\n

Grandchildren Kai Trump and Spencer Trump were also along for the ride.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/US President Donald Trump waves as he leaves from the Trump National Golf Club in the presidential limousine in Sterling, Virginia, on Monday. (AP)<\/p>\n

He returned to his club on Sunday \u2014 posting an undated photo of himself seated in a golf cart during a matchup with former NFL coach and media personality Jon Gruden \u2014 and again on Monday.<\/p>\n

The White House press office often boasts of Trump as the “most accessible” president in history, tweaking his predecessor as they highlight his significant engagements with the press.<\/p>\n

As questions arose about the president’s activities and whereabouts, a White House official said on Friday he was holding standard policy and staff meetings. <\/p>\n

He also sat for an hour-long interview with the conservative publication Daily Caller.<\/p>\n

“He’s very much alive!” Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese said in a post to social media previewing her interview \u2013 a nod to intense conjecture amid the very online set.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the online rumour mill generated intrigue amid broader concerns from the public about presidential wellness. <\/p>\n

Trump, at 79, will be the oldest US president in history at the end of his term. <\/p>\n

And former president Joe Biden was wracked with inquiries about his fitness for office, eventually prompting his withdrawal from his reelection campaign.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Earlier this year, the White House addressed bruising seen on the hands of President Donald Trump. (AP)<\/p>\n

Images of Trump’s bruised hand prompted some speculation last month, something the president’s physician, Sean Barbabella, dismissed as “minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin”.<\/p>\n

The White House announced in July that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, after he was seen with swelling in his legs.<\/p>\n

Trump, Barbabella said at the time, “remains in excellent health”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump is just fine, he said in a message to followers, as he returned to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-112656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}