By Molly Goddard
11:50am PDT, Apr 7, 2025
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While the economy is on shaky ground, Donald Trump played golf.On Saturday, April 5, the White House announced the commander-in-chief won a senior golf club championship as his newly imposed tariffs sent people on Wall Street into a frenzy.
Keep reading to get the scoop on what Trump did as people faced financial discomfort across the nation…
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According to ABC News, Donald Trump departed Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 3, for his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., where he partook in the LiV Golf Tournament.
"The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow," the White House announced in a statement.
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Donald Trump is now facing backlash for focusing on his golf game while stocks continue to plummet due to his tariffs on imported goods from around the globe."Trump is bragging about golf right now as the retirement accounts and portfolios of millions of Americans CRASH! He does not care about you whatsoever," TikTok star Harry Sisson wrote on X.
"This vile, narcissistic sociopath is bragging about his f****** golf game while his country (and the world) is falling into a recession, which he single-handedly caused," another X user lamented.
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In March, Donald Trump played in a championship at his course in Palm Beach, Fla., and alluded to pressing pause on his hobby while he focused on being the leader of the United States. However, he seems to have gone back on his word."I just won the Golf Club Championship, probably my last, at Trump International Golf Club, in Palm Beach County, Florida. Such a great honor! The Awards dinner is tonight, at the Club," he wrote on Truth Social on March 5.
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Despite Americans bracing for a possible recession, Donald Trump boasted about the new tariffs on Truth Social on Saturday, April 6, while slamming former President Joe Biden."They are already in effect and a beautiful thing to behold. The Surplus with these Countries has grown during the 'Presidency' of Sleepy Joe Biden," he wrote. "We are going to reverse it and reverse it QUICKLY. Some day people will realize that Tariffs, for the United States of America, are a very beautiful thing!"
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While Donald Trump may be confident about the duties, his former supporter Bill Ackman warned how his regulations could put the U.S. in an "economic nuclear winter.""The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress — are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for," Ackman wrote on X. "Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter and we should start hunkering down."
