{"id":216487,"date":"2026-04-02T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216487\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:14:12","slug":"tiger-woods-tells-deputy-he-was-talking-to-the-president-after-florida-crash-body-camera-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216487\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods tells deputy he was ‘talking to the president’ after Florida crash, body camera video shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Tiger Woods’<\/a> rollover crash in Florida last week, the golfer told a deputy that he had just gotten off the phone with “the president,” according to police body camera footage released on Thursday. <\/p>\n

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In body camera footage released by the Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office, a deputy is seen telling Woods to “just hang out here” after the crash, when his Land Rover clipped a trailer as a truck was turning into a driveway in Jupiter Island.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, I was just talking to the president,” Woods responds. <\/p>\n

In the video, Woods, who has been charged with driving under the influence, is seen holding a phone as he walks away from the deputy. There\u2019s no audio of what Woods was saying, but he could be heard saying “thank you, thank you” before ending the call. <\/p>\n

It is not immediately clear if he is referring to President Donald Trump. Last week, Trump told the New York Post<\/a> that he spoke with Woods following the incident, saying he was “doing good” but “lives a life of pain.”<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n

The golfer was arrested Friday after the crash that caused his SUV to flip. He pleaded not guilty earlier this week. <\/p>\n

An incident report said the truck sustained about $5,000 in damage to the rear left fender and the trailer’s wheel. <\/p>\n

No one was injured in the crash. <\/p>\n

In one video, Woods is seen kneeling by the road, speaking with a deputy. <\/p>\n

“I looked down at my phone and all of a sudden, boom,” he says.<\/p>\n

His SUV is still on its side in the video. The deputy told Woods that a medic would come and examine him. <\/p>\n

In another video, Woods hiccups as he sits in the back of the squad car. <\/p>\n

“Well, this is fun,” he says. <\/p>\n

“Are you cool back there?” the deputy asks. <\/p>\n

“Nope,” Woods responds, before asking how long he\u2019ll have to be at the jail. <\/p>\n

According to an incident report released by the sheriff’s office, Woods said he did not realize the truck had slowed<\/a>. The report said the deputy “observed several signs of impairment” and requested that another deputy conduct a DUI investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Tiger Woods’ rollover crash in Florida last week, the golfer told a deputy that he had just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-216487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}