Former President Donald Trump issued a public challenge to President Joe Biden, proposing an 18-hole golf match during a speech at his rally at the Doral course in South Florida. Trump added an enticing twist to the challenge, offering to donate $1 million to a charity of Biden’s choice if he were to lose.
“I’m also officially challenging crooked Joe to an 18-hole golf match right here on Doral’s Blue Monster, considered one of the greatest tournament golf courses anywhere in the world, one of the great courses of the world,” Trump declared.
The potential spectacle
Trump claimed the match would be “among the most-watched sporting events in history. Maybe bigger than the Ryder Cup or even the Masters.” He continued, “And I will even give Joe Biden 10 strokes a side. Ten strokes, that’s a lot. That means 20 strokes, in case you don’t play golf. And if he wins, I will give the charity of his choice, any charity of his choice, $1 million. And I’ll bet you he doesn’t take the offer.”
Biden’s response: No time for antics
President Biden declined the challenge. His spokesperson, James Singer, issued a pointed statement to the New York Post, saying, “Donald Trump hasn’t been seen in public for 12 days, now he’s inviting fictional serial killers to dinner, teasing lil’ Marco Rubio, praising Project 2025 architect Tom Homan, and challenging the President of the United States to golf.”
Singer criticized Trump’s record, adding, “We’d challenge Donald Trump to create jobs, but he lost 3 million. We’d challenge Donald Trump to stand up to Putin, but he bent the knee to him. We’d challenge Donald Trump to follow the law, but he breaks it. We’d challenge Donald Trump to not destroy our country, but that’s all his Project 2025 aims to do.”
He concluded with a strong rebuke: “Joe Biden doesn’t have time for Donald Trump’s weird antics – he’s busy leading America and defending the free world. Donald Trump is a liar, a convict, and a fraud only out for himself – par for the course.”