{"id":172444,"date":"2025-10-01T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172444\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:14:15","slug":"rory-mcilroy-received-text-from-trump-moments-before-viral-ryder-cup-video-golf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172444\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy received text from Trump moments before viral Ryder Cup video | Golf | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has emerged that Rory McIlroy<\/a> received a text from Donald Trump moments after clinching victory, which sparked the now-infamous viral video of Team Europe teasing the US President.<\/p>\n

In the midst of the jubilations following Europe’s 15-13 triumph over Team USA, the Ryder Cup<\/a> team, spearheaded by Rory McIlroy, posted a video chanting ‘Are you watching, Donald Trump<\/a>?’.<\/p>\n

The US President<\/a>, who was present on the first day of the Ryder Cup, took the video in stride and promptly shared it on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I’m watching. Congratulations!” Trump responded. European captain Luke Donald has since disclosed that the video was only made because the US President had sent a text to Rory McIlroy.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC<\/a> Sport, he revealed, “We were just in our dressing room after our press conference, just having a moment together with the team, and Rory was there, and he got a text from the President, while we were in there.<\/p>\n

“He read it out, and we thought, for a little bit of banter, we’ll send a friendly video of the chant that was going around that Ryder Cup. I’m glad he liked it and glad he enjoyed it.”<\/p>\n

USA captain Keegan Bradley welcomed Trump on Friday with a bow, and he hasn’t been reticent about expressing his political views. “It was great,” Bradley reminisced.<\/p>\n

“That was genuinely a brilliant experience. Witnessing a sitting President at the grounds of a Ryder Cup or at a golf tournament, what an incredible moment. The Air Force One flyover, I’ll never forget that for the rest of my life.”<\/p>\n

Bradley, however, was less than pleased after the weekend’s events, reports the Irish Mirror<\/a>. “This is no one’s fault but mine,” the American confessed.<\/p>\n

“When you are the leader of the team and you’re the coach, the captain – whatever you want to call it – and you lose, you have to take the blame.<\/p>\n

“This is no one else’s fault. Sometimes in sports, you go up against an opponent that sometimes beats you; they play better. And they [Europe] played better than us. We gave it a great fight, that’s for sure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has emerged that Rory McIlroy received a text from Donald Trump moments after clinching victory, which sparked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[141,5904,2623,6547,101,10823,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-172444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports","tag-team-europe","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172444","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=172444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}