{"id":638231,"date":"2026-04-29T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638231\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:22:12","slug":"huge-golden-donald-trump-statue-appears-at-trump-doral-ahead-of-cadillac-championship-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/638231\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge golden Donald Trump statue appears at Trump Doral ahead of Cadillac Championship \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought \u201cGold Boy\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefriedegg.com\/podcasts\/questions-about-gold-boy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the short-lived mascot<\/a> of the Players Championship who made his glimmering bow at TPC Sawgrass in 2022, was cringe and controversial, ba-ba-ba-baby, you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is a new Gold Man on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@pgatour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpDoral?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TrumpDoral<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ucR4FbO9Vz\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ucR4FbO9Vz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schupak (@AdamSchupak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchupak\/status\/2049138757350179127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Terminator51514\/status\/2049159967765070093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Terminator51514\/status\/2049159967765070093<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/pro-golfer-offers-his-services-as-scramble-team-partner-on-facebook-marketplace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro golfer offers his services as \u2018scramble team partner\u2019 on Facebook Marketplace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is what greeted players, staff, fans and media as they arrived at Trump Doral for the Cadillac Championship this week. The new signature event marks the first time in a decade the PGA Tour has returned to the Donald Trump-badged course, and they received a bright (some might say blinding) welcome from the 15-foot-tall statue of the current president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s perfectly reasonable to assume that Trump commissioned the tribute to himself, it was in fact the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/factpostnews\/status\/2018762463643066440\" rel=\"nofollow\">long-running project of Patriot Token<\/a>, a right-wing crypto coin that is hoping the statue will encourage the buy-in of big-money investors.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The PATRIOT Statue of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> was successfully installed last night at Trump National Doral in preparation for the PGA\u2019s Cadillac Championship. We\u2019ve heard the PGA players will arrive soon to start practicing!!!<\/p>\n<p>We couldn\u2019t contain this beast it\u2019s already been published\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sf3eGEHi72\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Sf3eGEHi72<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patriot Token (@Patriot_Erc20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patriot_Erc20\/status\/2047681323507294360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies currently in freefall (BTC and ETH are down 33.39 percent and 44.81 percent, respectively, over the past six months), Patriot Token has an uphill climb ahead of them, especially with a giant statue of a 79-year-old man strapped to their back. Even golf fans on X, which skews broadly right due to the influence of Trump benefactor and owner Elon Musk, were split on the gaudy totem.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">this is disgusting.  I think many more players should cancel their appearance<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Perfecto Cortez (@perfectocortez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/perfectocortez\/status\/2049146194178535576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What I like about it is that it\u2019s subtle<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scotty Holdridge (@holdridge_scott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holdridge_scott\/status\/2049151771835265472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The pigeons are smiling!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl Koch (@KarlKoc21102064) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlKoc21102064\/status\/2049168284046835927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s looking fantastic. A movement called patriot built this for the best president ever<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 R\u014dnin (@TheDeFiRonin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDeFiRonin\/status\/2049146598840586543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagagicianTX\/status\/2049163618168574217\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MagagicianTX\/status\/2049163618168574217<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No one better ever remove it<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 paula wilson (@pwilsondtf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwilsondtf\/status\/2049162734000820605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loathe it or love it, the statue represents one of the primary reasons the PGA Tour stepped away from Trump Doral in the first place: politicisation. The statue is a partisan statement designed to raise capital for an unaffiliated investment group. It\u2019s hard to imagine tour leadership, nor its various financial partners, will be thrilled with the appearance of the literal and figurative lightning rod, but here\u2019s hoping it won\u2019t cast too long a shadow on golf\u2019s much-anticipated return to the Blue Monster.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought \u201cGold Boy\u201d, the short-lived mascot of the Players Championship who made his glimmering bow at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,309022,309023,2490,755,138747,44,309024,1747,85,63272,309025],"class_list":["post-638231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blue-monster","tag-cadillac-championship","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-news","tag-patriot-token","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports","tag-statue","tag-trump-doral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638231","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=638231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}