[스포츠]Trump, a golf fanatic with a ‘handicap of 2.5’, is ‘growling’ when it comes to basketball and American football

[앵커]

US President-elect Donald Trump owns several prestigious golf courses and is known to have great golf skills.

While I have a deep love for golf and martial arts, I have a really bad relationship with basketball and American football.

Reporter Eunji Cho took a look at President-elect Trump and sports.

[기자]

President-elect Trump and mixed martial arts and UFC are special.

The relationship began when Trump gave his hotel to the UFC, which was unable to find a venue for the event because it was too violent. Over the next 20 years, the Octagon gave strong support to the hot-tempered and macho Trump.

On the night President-elect Trump declared victory, it was perhaps natural that UFC head White stood side by side.

[다이나 화이트 / UFC 최고경영자 : 트럼프를 막을 수 없습니다. 그는 앞으로 계속 나아갑니다. 그는 멈추지 않습니다. 그는 제가 만나본 사람 가운데 가장 회복력이 좋고 열심히 일하는 사람입니다.]

It was golfer DeChambeau, born in 1993, who was an athlete who was urgently called by President-elect Trump on this stage.

The two attracted attention during a charity round last summer, and President-elect Trump showed off his sensational skills by engraving the number 47, representing the 47th president, on his red hat, in line with the election slogan at the time, MAGA.

It also differentiated him from the older President Biden.

[도널드 트럼프 / 미국 대통령 당선인 (지난 7월) : 바이든이 이렇게 칠 수 있을 것 같아요? 글쎄. 우리가 골프로 논쟁했다는 게 믿어져요?]

There are 17 golf courses that operate for handicap 2.5,

Trump is such a ‘golf fanatic’ that he was in the field four years ago when news broke about Biden’s election.

Playing rounds with celebrities is a part of his daily life, and he is also passionate about diplomacy, having had five golf meetings with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

However, it is not a honeymoon relationship with all sports.

In particular, there have been several public wars of words with basketball and American football, where black players are the majority.

A representative example is the outrageous remarks made by NFL players when they boycotted the national anthem by kneeling, saying they could not show respect to a country with racial discrimination.

[도널드 트럼프 / 미국 대통령 당선인 (지난 2017년) : 국기를 존중하지 않는다면 이렇게 말해야 합니다. XXX야, 당장 경기장에서 꺼져! 그는 해고입니다! 해고라고요!]

During his last term, he canceled an invitation to the White House from Golden State, Curry’s team that publicly opposed him, but the NBA champion visited the White House under President Biden.

Trump’s strong like-and-dislike style is not much different in the sports field.

As the 2026 North and Central American World Cup and the 2028 LA Summer Olympics will be held in the United States, President-elect Trump is expected to visit sports venues frequently.

This is Eunji Jo from YTN.

Video editing; Kim Hee-jeong

YTN Cho Eun-ji (zone4@ytn.co.kr)

※ ‘Your report becomes news’
[카카오톡] Search YTN and add channel
[전화] 02-398-8585
[메일] social@ytn.co.kr