{"id":44460,"date":"2025-07-29T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44460\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:35:12","slug":"donald-trump-caught-up-in-bizarre-cheating-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44460\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump caught up in bizarre &#8216;cheating&#8217; incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump's Turnberry caddie was caught helping him on the Scottish links.\" height=\"584\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/donald-trump-cheating-storm-turnberry.jpg\"  width=\"876\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tAs Donald Trump prepares to open the new links at his Aberdeen resort, a small incident at Turnberry that has caught the attention of eagle-eyed viewers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has had quite the couple of weeks. (We\u2019re talking strictly golf here, folks.)<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the US president claimed another title of his own.\u00a0Boasting on his social media platform, Truth, Trump\u00a0said he won the member-member championship at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/course-news\/donald-trump-golf-courses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his New Jersey resort<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn between meetings and phone calls, it was a great honor to win the member-member championship, at\u00a0Trump National, Bedminster (gross, no strokes) with Tommy Urciuoli as my partner,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe many other competitors were not only great golfers, but also terrific people!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It adds to his incredible legacy of club tournament victories at his own courses. His most recent title is his fifth of the year after his inauguration on January 20.<\/p>\n<p>Among them, he supposedly partnered with Finnish president Alexander Stubb to win the men\u2019s member-guest tournament at\u00a0Trump\u00a0International at West Palm Beach in March, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/general-news\/president-donald-trump-wins-club-championship-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claiming victory in the senior club championship<\/a> at\u00a0Trump\u00a0National in Jupiter a week later.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u00a0has also previously won a club championship despite not teeing it up in the first round and claimed a senior club championship triumph without anyone actually seeing him play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you make of his claims,\u00a0Trump\u2019s brashness and commitment to the game can\u2019t be questioned.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdidtrumpgolftoday.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Calex.perry%40bauermedia.co.uk%7C8c9a1bfa3bc844bbeb9a08ddc3a7abcf%7C0e79f3f34eeb48ed815e2876c379e863%7C0%7C0%7C638881847205601528%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2BelILtkGRkplDM8z7M7j%2FZ3nUKxCYyFY6QFg8j3YD5s%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Did Trump Golf Today?<\/a>, the man himself has played golf 45 days out of 190 since taking office for the second time, with an estimated cost of $63 million to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>And the latest of those has embroiled him in another cheating scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old is currently in Scotland as he prepares to open his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/course-news\/we-ve-played-donald-trump-s-new-scottish-links-course-and-it-s-incredible\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new course at Trump International Golf Links<\/a>, near Aberdeen.<\/p>\n<p>But while playing a few holes at his other Scottish resort, Turnberry, Trump\u2019s caddie was caught on camera giving him a little helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>See if you can spot it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, social media has had a field day. But in fairness to Trump, this is hardly a surprising play.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the man has had a bestselling book on this very subject written all about him\u2026<\/p>\n<p b-gxm1oiwja2=\"\" class=\"product-card__summary\">            By bestselling author Rick Reilly        <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s member-member title in Bedminster was followed by another awkward incident at the soccer Club World Cup final at New Jersey\u2019s MetLife Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino presented Chelsea with the trophy following the English team\u2019s 3-0 win over European champions Paris Saint-Germain, but while Infantino left the stage to let the players enjoy their moment,\u00a0Trump\u00a0decided to linger and become part of the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea captain Reece James looked confused as to what was going on before hoisting aloft the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer, who scored two of Chelsea\u2019s goals and assisted the other, was asked for his thoughts on the bizarre scene in his post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew he was going to be here, but I didn\u2019t know he was going to be on the stand when we lifted the trophy,\u201d Palmer admitted. \u201cI was a bit confused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Golfer\u2019s news editor Alex Perry contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tAbout the author<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/author\/\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"about-author__image-link\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Wright\" class=\"about-author__author-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/awheadshot.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Golf writer and wannabe darts player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"about-author__byline\">Andrew Wright is a freelance journalist specializing in golf. He lives in Ayrshire with his partner and daughter and is a scratch golfer at Royal Troon. Away from golf, he follows darts, snooker and soccer &#8211; but he is a Manchester United and Rangers fan, so doesn&#8217;t want to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Donald Trump prepares to open the new links at his Aberdeen resort, a small incident at Turnberry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-44460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}