Donald Trump goes off on extraordinary golf rant during Thanksgiving call

A routine Thanksgiving call with U.S. troops quickly veered into the bunker on Thursday as President Donald Trump launched into an extended rant about his golfing greatness.

Speaking to service members stationed around the world during a livestreamed call, Trump, 79, confirmed he's a "scratch golfer or maybe even better" after he recently beat a plus-3 golfer. He also then went into another blistering attack on Joe Biden’s game.

Trump, a close friend of LIV Golf superstar Bryson DeChambeau, insisted he had invited former US President Biden to play but that he “never showed up.”

Watch Trump's comments in full here: 

“I know a lot about golf. I’ve won 38 club championships, and I don’t get to practice much. I won one last year,” Trump said. 

“I won a club championship at a big club, beating a 27-year-old kid. I said, ‘You know, I’m decades older than you.’ But I said, ‘The fairway doesn’t know how old you are as you walk up the middle and he’s in the rough.’ And, uh, I’ve been a good golfer over the years.”

Trump added: “I'm a very low handicap, and I've won 38… everyone legitimately. So I guess I got to be around scratch or better. I beat a plus three.”

His sharpest jabs were reserved for Biden, as Trump revisited their 2024 debate exchanges about handicaps.

He said: “A lot of people talk, but they can’t play, like Biden. Biden can’t hit a ball 30 yards. I’m telling you, I looked at his swing. He cannot hit a ball 30 yards. He said he was a 6-handicapped. He said—that was the only thing that made me angry during the debate with him—he said he was a 6. I said, ‘You’re not a 6.’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m an 8.’ I said, ‘That was quick. I picked up 2.’ But he’s not 100.”

Trump also discussed his recent appearance on DeChambeau's Break 50 video, which you can watch below.