Donald Trump was clearly very invested in this year’s Ryder Cup tournament. He visited it on Long Island on its first day, while touting his friendships with some of the American golfers. He even touted that he had “saved” the tournament by intervening in a potential railroad strike.
But after the European team defeated the United States in the tournament, the winning Europeans held the trophy aloft and taunted the golf-loving president.
Team Europe trolling Trump directly 🤣💀 #RyderCup pic.twitter.com/9waj4d1tgz
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) September 29, 2025
“The European Ryder Cup team taunted Donald Trump after sealing victory over the United States on a weekend of acrimony at the prestigious golf tournament,” Politico reported Friday.
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“Trump posted a video clip to his Truth Social account of European players, led by Northern Irish star Rory McIlroy, chanting “Are you watching? Are you watching? Are you watching, Donald Trump?” while holding the iconic golden trophy,” the report said.
Trump, somewhat uncharacteristically, posted the video to Truth Social, where he congratulated the Europeans.
“Yes, I’m watching. Congratulations!,” the president posted.
Per a Guardian article, the other big story of the tournament was reports of bad fan behavior on the course.
“Until the thrilling denouement, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly backdrop: galleries that drifted from partisan into venomous and the organizers who let the line slide until it snapped,” the Guardian piece said.
“It didn’t happen all at once. For the first day and a half of golf’s most intense rivalry, it was New York-loud without being unruly. Then Saturday afternoon arrived and the tenor shifted. Rory McIlroy, the visiting lightning rod, kept stepping off shots as volleys of abuse landed in the quiet of his pre-shot routine. Shane Lowry played teammate and minder. Justin Thomas, not exactly a shrinking violet, began shushing his own end of the grandstand so his opponents could putt.”
The piece went on to associate that behavior with what American has become in Trump’s America.
EMBARRASSING: European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families.
This is what America under Trump looks like to the rest of the world: https://t.co/BgvySrMZfr pic.twitter.com/QVZG1a6ekE— Lincoln Square (@LincolnSquareHQ) September 29, 2025
“Add the optics of Donald Trump’s fly-in on Friday – fist bumps, photo-ops, galleries dotted with Maga hats and a certain politics of humiliation playing to its base – and the swagger slid easily into license. That doesn’t make the Ryder Cup a referendum. It does explain how quickly the rope line starts to feel like a boundary you’re invited to test.”
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