But on second viewing, the 14-second clip appeared genuine enough. AI content, surely, is not yet at the point where it could generate all 12 members of the European team and its captain Luke Donald<\/a> singing in unison, let alone the little details from Donald lifting up the Ryder Cup to the camera to Matthew Fitzpatrick holding a Gatorade bottle in the background. <\/p>\n The suspicion, though, came from the source. After a major sporting event like the Ryder Cup, social media feeds become a hive of behind-the-scenes clips and videos from the celebrating team, captured through a lens that is usually soaked in champagne. Late into the night at Bethpage Black<\/a>, the Team Europe accounts went into overdrive, feeding their hungry followers as much Shane Lowry content as possible. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Rory McIlroy is sprayed with champagne following Europe\u2019s Ryder Cup victory in New York (Getty)<\/p>\n But the video of McIlroy leading a playfully taunting chant towards the US president, after securing a rare victory on American soil, did not come from the Team Europe accounts. Instead, it emerged from Trump himself, posted on his Truth Social account<\/a> along with the caption, \u201cYes, I\u2019m watching. Congratulations!\u201d <\/p>\n Given the behaviour of the American crowd at Bethpage Black<\/a>, this was perhaps one of the more magnanimous actions from an American fan this week. Trump, who attended Bethpage Black on Friday, may not have congratulated Joe Biden when he finally conceded the presidential election in 2021, but he was more gracious when it came to sporting competition. <\/p>\n Or he appeared to have been gracious, at least. After all, Trump has a history of posting AI-generated content, from \u201cTrump Gaza\u201d<\/a>, to literally the day after the Ryder Cup <\/a>as he targeted Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer over reports of a government shutdown. <\/p>\n But it turns out that this was real, with McIlroy behind it all. After receiving a text from Trump after Europe survived a frantic comeback from the hosts to win the Ryder Cup, McIlroy picked up a chant that had been sung by the European fans on the stands around the 18th green where Lowry had drained the winning putt. \u201cAre you watching Donald Trump?\u201d they sang. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Trump appeared at the Ryder Cup on Friday (AFP or licensors)<\/p>\n \u201cThe story is that we were in the dressing room and Rory got a text from the president while we were in there,\u201d Europe\u2019s captain Donald revealed. \u201cRory read it out to us and he was like, \u2018Let\u2019s do a video of us doing the funny chant the fans have been doing and send it back to him\u2019. <\/p>\n \u201cWe read it out and thought [we\u2019d have] a little bit of banter [with him],\u201d Donald added to the BBC. \u201cHe seemed to take it in good spirits.”<\/p>\n That was the idea, anyway. McIlroy perhaps had not anticipated that Trump would take that playful bit of banter and send it out to the world. Trolling the US president would appear to be a bold move, unless you\u2019re the Masters champion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-170703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rory](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2237951227.jpeg\")
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