{"id":423293,"date":"2026-04-29T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:03:08","slug":"donald-trump-interrupts-speech-to-praise-rory-mcilroys-unconquerable-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423293\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump interrupts speech to praise Rory McIlroy\u2019s \u2018unconquerable courage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump interrupted his speech during a White House banquet to ask Rory McIlroy to stand and praised the golfer for his \u201cunconquerable courage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The president was speaking during a state visit by the King and Queen and broke off to address McIlroy, who was one of those in attendance at the dinner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/donald-trump-interrupts-speech-to-praise-rory-mcilroy-s-unconquerable-courage.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump gives a speech at the State Dinner\" data-title=\"State visit to the US \u2013 Day Two\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Aaron Chown\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>President Donald Trump gives a speech at the State Dinner (Aaron Chown\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>McIlroy successfully defended his Masters title earlier in April, becoming only the fourth man to win back-to-back at Augusta, as he sealed a one-shot victory.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said: \u201cThe entire world has been uplifted by this distinct and special character we share. This unstoppable daring, this unconquerable courage. It really is, it\u2019s unconquerable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking of that, where\u2019s Rory McIlroy? Can you stand up Rory, will you, please?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777460588_265_donald-trump-interrupts-speech-to-praise-rory-mcilroy-s-unconquerable-courage.jpg\" alt=\"King Charles III and US President Donald Trump \" data-title=\"State visit to the US \u2013 Day Two\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Aaron Chown\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>King Charles III and US President Donald Trump (Aaron Chown\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was unconquerable courage. That was very good Rory. I don\u2019t know if that helps him talking about how wonderful the speech\u2026 but I had to interrupt my speech because I watched that man win a tournament that was a tough one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations, very proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump interrupted his speech during a White House banquet to ask Rory McIlroy to stand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-423293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}