{"id":190496,"date":"2025-10-04T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:54:10","slug":"donald-trump-delivers-four-word-response-to-team-europes-ryder-cup-taunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190496\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump delivers four-word response to Team Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup taunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump didn\u2019t stay quiet after Rory McIlroy and Team Europe aimed their Ryder Cup victory song in his direction.\" height=\"584\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/donald-trump-2025-ryder-cup-chant.jpg\"  width=\"876\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe US President didn\u2019t stay quiet after Rory McIlroy and Team Europe aimed their Ryder Cup victory song in his direction.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the pre-Ryder Cup hype was centered on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/ryder-cup\/donald-trump-visit-bethpage-security\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u2019s planned appearance at Bethpage<\/a>. His presence, some suggested, would fire up the American players and their supporters to deliver a performance Europe simply wouldn\u2019t be able to handle.<\/p>\n<p>But the reality?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/ryder-cup\/donald-trump-bethpage-black-chaos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> It never really landed<\/a>. Trump appeared ahead of the Friday afternoon fourballs session \u2013 one the USA ended up losing 2.5\u20131.5.<\/p>\n<p>A keen golf fan, Trump was always going to make his mark on proceedings \u2013 one way or another.<\/p>\n<p>And Europe weren\u2019t about to let his presence go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Rory McIlroy, the victorious European team gleefully filmed themselves singing, \u201cAre you watching, Donald Trump?\u201d as they posed with the Ryder Cup trophy.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long for Trump to fire back with a short but pointed reply on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I\u2019m watching. Congratulations!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump may not have inspired Team USA to glory in New York, but he still managed to steal a slice of the spotlight. And if there\u2019s one thing Donald Trump has always been good at, it\u2019s making sure people are, indeed, watching.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tAbout the author<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/author\/rob-mcgarr\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"about-author__image-link\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rob McGarr\" class=\"about-author__author-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759622050_567_rob-m.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contributing Editor (mainly contributing unwanted sarcasm and iffy golf takes, to be honest)<\/p>\n<p class=\"about-author__byline\">Rob has been a writer and editor for over 15 years, covering all manner of subjects, including a hefty dose of golf.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s played golf with tour pros and celebrities including Greg Norman, Charley Hull, Matt Wallace, Long Driver World Champion Joe Miller, and Rob Brydon, watched The Open with Gary Player, and had a pull-up contest with Rory McIlroy. He\u2019s interviewed countless tour pros and will always have a soft spot for Tommy Fleetwood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US President didn\u2019t stay quiet after Rory McIlroy and Team Europe aimed their Ryder Cup victory song&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496","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=190496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}