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USA Today
15-07-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Trump claims to have won a fifth golf championship since his inauguration 10 weeks ago
The end of the golf season in South Florida does not mean the end of Donald Trump's claims on the course. The President has shifted his golf game from Trump International West Palm Beach to his course in Bedminster, New Jersey. But the change in scenery apparently has not slowed down the 79-year-old when it comes to declaring himself a champion. Trump boasted on his Truth Social website on Sunday that he won the member-member championship at Bedminster with partner Tommy Urciuoli. "In between meetings and phone calls, it was a Great Honor to win the Member-Member Championship, at Trump National, Bedminster (Gross, no strokes), with Tommy Urciuoli as my partner. The Many other competitors were not only great Golfers, but also terrific people!" Trump wrote. Trump has taken at least 8 Florida golf trips in last 10 weeks Trump has worked diligently on his golf game since starting his second term. In the first 10 weeks since the Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump had at least eight golf outings to his courses in Palm Beach County, Florida. And his boasts now have become legendary. Trump, who never loses an event at one of his tournaments, once said he: Trump now is claiming five championships this year, including teaming with Finnish President Alexander Stubb to win the Men's Member-Guest tournament in late March at Trump International West Palm Beach. He also was declared the winner at the Senior Club Championship at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter one week later. In March, while posting he won the Club Championship at Trump International West Palm Beach, Trump added it would "probably" be his last. He's up to three more claims since then. Trump was asked about his handicap in March while aboard Air Force One. "Very low," he said. "I've a very low handicap." That was after he announced he had won the Senior Club Championship at his course outside of West Palm Beach. "Very good," when asked how the golf tournament was. "Because I won. It's good to win. You heard I won, right? Did you hear I won? I like to win." In his 2023 post about carding a 67 at Bedminster, Trump said: "For some reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete − I have won many Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!" Tom D'Angelo is a senior sports columnist and reporter for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today network. He can be reached at tdangelo@
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump claims to have won another golf championship, his fifth this year, at his New Jersey club
The end of the golf season in South Florida does not mean the end of Donald Trump's claims on the course. The President has shifted his golf game from Trump International West Palm Beach to his course in Bedminster, N.J. Advertisement But the change in scenery apparently has not slowed down the 79-year-old when it comes to declaring himself a champion. Trump boasted on his Truth Social website on Sunday, July 13, that he won the member-member championship at Bedminster with partner Tommy Urciuoli. "In between meetings and phone calls, it was a Great Honor to win the Member-Member Championship, at Trump National, Bedminster (Gross, no strokes), with Tommy Urciuoli as my partner. The Many other competitors were not only great Golfers, but also terrific people!" Trump wrote. President Donald Trump waves to supporters who gathered across the street from his Trump International Golf Club to celebrate President's Day in West Palm Beach, Florida on February 17, 2025. Trump has worked diligently on his golf game since starting his second term. In the first 10 weeks since the Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump had at least eight golf outings to his courses in Palm Beach County, Florida. Advertisement And his boasts now have become legendary. Trump, who never loses an event at one of his tournaments, once said he won a club championship when he didn't play the first round, crowned himself winner of a Senior Club Championship when nobody saw him play and said he won an event at Bedminster shooting a 67 on a course in which LIV Golf held a tournament and of the 144 rounds, only six LIV golfers shot 67 or lower. Trump now is claiming five championships this year, including teaming with Finnish President Alexander Stubb to win the Men's Member-Guest tournament in late March at Trump International West Palm Beach. He also was declared the winner at the Senior Club Championship at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter one week later. In March, while posting he won the Club Championship at Trump International West Palm Beach, Trump added it would "probably" be his last. He's up to three more claims since then. Advertisement Trump was asked about his handicap in March while aboard Air Force One. "Very low," he said. "I've a very low handicap." That was after he announced he had won the Senior Club Championship at his course outside of West Palm Beach. "Very good," when asked how the golf tournament was. "Because I won. It's good to win. You heard I won, right? Did you hear I won? I like to win." In his 2023 post about carding a 67 at Bedminster, Trump said: "For some reason, I am just a good golfer/athlete − I have won many Club Championships, and it is always a great honor!" Tom D'Angelo is a senior sports columnist and reporter for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at tdangelo@ This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Trump and golf: Another self-proclaimed victory at his New Jersey club
Business Insider
01-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Trump's NJ golf courses can sell liquor for 6 more months, but he can't pocket the cash just yet
The Champagne will keep flowing for another six months at two of President Donald Trump's New Jersey golf courses, despite his felony conviction. For now, though, the Trump Organization is barred from touching the proceeds. Officials with the New Jersey Attorney General's Office said Tuesday that they have issued temporary, half-year extensions for the liquor licenses at the Trump National Golf Club in Colts Neck and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster. The last-minute extensions were necessary to keep the drinks flowing while state officials continue to review Trump's application to renew the licenses for the coming year. Without the extension, the licenses at the Colts Neck and Bedminster clubs would have expired outright on Monday, June 30. But the extensions come with heavy strings attached — including that Trump, as a convicted felon, and any other corporate members of the clubs' LLCs must keep their hands out of the bar tills at the two clubs indefinitely. The attorney general's Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control is requiring that proceeds from the two clubs' liquor licenses be held in untouched accounts kept separate from those for the clubs' other income. It's a constraint that Peter Rhodes — a lawyer who's specialized for 30 years in New Jersey liquor licensing — says he's never seen imposed. Usually, when a license owner or beneficiary becomes a felon, they are simply given time to walk away from the license, Rhodes said, usually by selling or transferring their interest to a non-felon. "One might infer that the ABC is struggling with how to handle this issue — with how to deprive a felon of the proceeds of their license," he told BI. "In short, I find it peculiar," said Rhodes, whose Haddonfield-based firm, Cahill, Wilinski, Rhodes & Joyce, has served for 50 years as counsel to the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association. "What they don't say is what happens to that money if, in fact, they find that he is disqualified," Rhodes added. "They can't just confiscate it." A spokesperson for New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin told Business Insider that the special conditions "are consistent with the division's obligation to ensure that all liquor licensees comply with the law." "New Jersey statutes state that profiting from a liquor license is a privilege, not a right granted by law," the spokesperson said in a statement. It was soon after Trump's May 30, 2024, conviction that New Jersey officials first said that the two golf club licenses were under review. In June of 2024, they announced that they did not intend to renew the licenses due to Trump's new status as a felon. Both the Bedminster and Colts Neck licenses are in the name of Donald Trump, Jr., the president's son, but the state AG's office ruled at the time that Trump himself is the primary beneficiary of the clubs' liquor sales. A license-revocation hearing — at which Trump would bear the burden of proving he was qualified to be a license beneficiary — was initially set for July 2024, only to be repeatedly canceled. A new hearing date has yet to be announced. New Jersey law requires liquor licenses be revoked if their owner or primary beneficiary is sentenced for a crime of moral turpitude, a category which includes felony falsifying business records. That's the state charge Trump was sentenced to in Manhattan in January, nine days before his inauguration. This week's license extension further requires that by September 30, the Trump Organization provide the alcoholic beverage control officials with details of "the corporate structure, ownership, and beneficiary interests" behind the licenses. Trump's third New Jersey golf club is the Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia, which is 45 minutes from that city in Pine Hill. The town, not the state, regulates that license, which was also due to expire June 30. Officials in Pine Hill and a food and beverage manager at the golf club there did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The chief legal officer of the Trump Organization also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the license renewals and the required special conditions.
RTÉ News
19-06-2025
- Business
- RTÉ News
Edward Walsh sworn in as US ambassador to Ireland
American businessman Edward Walsh has been sworn in as the new US ambassador to Ireland. The ceremony took place in the Oval Office with US President Donald Trump this evening, Mr Walsh is the founder and president of a New Jersey-based construction and project management company. Mr Walsh is a member of Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, one of Mr Trump's golf resorts, where he has won the club championship. He will move to the US ambassador's residence in Phoenix Park in Dublin soon. Ed Walsh is officially sworn in as Ambassador to Ireland 🇮🇪 — Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) June 19, 2025 Announcing the nomination in a post on Truth Social last December, Mr Trump described him as a great philanthropist in his local community, who had previously served as the Chairman of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority Board. He was confirmed by the US senate at the beginning of the month with lawmakers 57 to 38 in his favour. Edward 'Ed' Walsh was introduced as a very close friend of the US president during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last May. "To our friends in Ireland, you're getting one of the closest friends President Trump has and that will benefit you because when Ed picks up the phone President Trump will answer," said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster responds to health violations
BEDMINSTER – Trump National Golf Club has improved its food safety grade after it received the lowest grade since late March given by the Somerset County Health Department in a May 6 inspection. The country club and occasional residence of President Donald Trump received a grade of 32 out of a possible 100 in the initial inspection on May 6. But in a re-inspection on June 4, the club received a grade of 86. Trump is expected to visit his club this weekend. Because of the 32 score, the club, where the Wall Street Journal has estimated the initiation fee is more than $100,000, was given a Conditional C rating. Only two other establishments inspected by the Somerset County Health Department during the same period received scores lower than 40 – Hunan Wok in Middlesex Borough and Ponch Suizo in North Plainfield. More: Effort to reimburse NJ airports when airspace restricted during President Trump's visits The June 4 reinspection score of 86 raised Trump National's rating to Satisfactory B. In the initial inspection, according to county records, officials found nine "critical" violations and nine "non-critical violations." Among the violations were: Milk with an expired date in the refrigerator. Sliced lime, lemon and orange stored in cups at room temperature on the bar. The items, according to the report, must be maintained in a refrigerator at 41 degrees. Salted butter left on a counter at 80 degrees for an hour. Food boxes stored directly on the floor in walk-in freezer. Mop left in bucket and hand wash sign missing at the hand wash sink in the bar area. Low temperature (170 degrees) in the dishwasher final rinse when code requires 180 degrees. Raw meat stored above cheese container in refrigerator. Code requires raw food items must be stored separately or below ready-to-eat food to avoid cross-contamination. The "person-in-charge" failed to demonstrate knowledge of food safety and did not have manager-level certification. Hand wash sink at bar and halfway area not supplied with soap or paper towels. The r-inspection found only two "critical" violations and four "non-critical" violations. Among the violations were: Mops left in mop buckets. Mops must be hung to air dry when not in use. Wet wiping cloths were not stored in sanitizing solution. Milk and coffee creamers stored at 50 degrees when the items should be maintained at 41 degrees. Condiment containers not labelled. All food items not in their original containers must be labelled. Michael McCarty, deputy director of health for Somerset County, said reinspections are common and usually occur within two to four weeks of an initial inspection. The Bedminster club's reception desk and chef did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Somerset County Health Department conducts inspections in Bedminster, Bound Brook, Far Hills, Franklin, Manville, Middlesex Borough, North Plainfield, Raritan, Somerville and South Bound Brook. Zachary Schermele of USA Today contributed to this article. Email: mdeak@ This article originally appeared on Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster NJ responds to health violations
