{"id":458482,"date":"2026-02-09T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458482\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:51:11","slug":"pres-trump-golfs-in-west-palm-beach-with-sens-schmitt-and-graham-as-controversy-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/458482\/","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Trump golfs in West Palm Beach with Sens. Schmitt and Graham as controversy grows"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 President Donald Trump spent his Saturday at his West Palm Beach golf course<\/a>, appearing to distance himself from the growing firestorm over his controversial social media post.<\/p>\n

The president was spotted at Trump International Golf Course alongside Republican Senators Eric Schmitt<\/a> of Missouri and Lindsey Graham<\/a> of South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Despite the mounting criticism back in Washington, the atmosphere on the course appeared relaxed.<\/p>\n

Graham took to social media<\/a>, sharing a photo of the trio and calling the President “Reagan Plus”:<\/p>\n

The backlash stems from a now-deleted<\/a> video posted to the President’s social media account on Thursday night, which depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes.<\/p>\n

The imagery has drawn swift and severe condemnation, most notably from Graham’s fellow South Carolinian, Senator Tim Scott<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scott, the lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, called the post<\/a> “the most racist thing I\u2019ve seen out of this White House.”<\/p>\n

As of Sunday, President Trump has offered no formal apology for the video. Instead, the administration has pivoted the blame toward an unnamed staffer.<\/p>\n

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On board Air Force One on Friday, the President told pool reporters<\/a> that he is “the least racist President you’ve had in a long time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 President Donald Trump spent his Saturday at his West Palm Beach golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-458482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458482","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=458482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}