Donald Trump hit the links with football great Brett Favre on Saturday at his golf club in

the suburban New Jersey hamlet of Bedminster.

White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere shared a photo of the US president
alongside Favre, the three-time NFL MVP who played the bulk of his career with the
Green Bay Packers and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.

The visit to marked Trump’s 10th trip to one of his golf courses in the last 29 days.
Deere said the president made the journey to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster
to attend a fundraising event at the club on Saturday night hosted by America First
Action, a Super Pac which has spent over $540,000 to host events at the Trump’s
Washington DC hotel, making it a top source of campaign revenues for the hotel and the
family’s business, according to public data and 1100 Pennsylvania, which tracks Trump
hotel events.
Favre, who played 17 seasons with the Packers before finishing with the New York Jets
and Minnesota Vikings, retired in 2010 as the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards,
passing touchdowns and quarterback wins.

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His one-year stint with the Jets brought him into the orbit of Woody Johnson, the
team’s billionaire owner who this week came under fire amid reports he was
investigated for allegations of controversial remarks and dealings in his role as Trump’s
ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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Saturday’s round was not the first time Trump has golfed with a famous athlete. The US
president has counted Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Dustin Johnson among his
coterie of playing partners since taking office. In March, four days before Major League
Baseball canceled spring training due to the coronavirus outbreak, Trump golfed with
Washington Nationals players Ryan Zimmerman, Trea Turner, Kurt Suzuki, Patrick
Corbin and Daniel Hudson.

Rory McIlroy, the PGA Tour’s current world No 2 who faced intense backlash after
playing a round of golf with Trump shortly following his inauguration in 2017, admitted
the president was “charismatic” and had an “X factor” but said he wouldn’t play with
him again if asked.
“I don’t know if he’d want to play with me again after what I just said, but I wouldn’t
[play with him again],” McIlroy said in May. “I felt I would have been making more of a
statement if I had turned it down. It was a round of golf and nothing more.”
McIlroy went on to criticize Trump’s politicization of a pandemic that had claimed more
than 85,000 American lives at the time, a figure that has nearly doubled since then.

“We’re in the midst of something that’s pretty serious right now and the fact that he’s
trying to politicize it and make it a campaign rally and say we’re administering the most
tests in world like it is a contest – there’s something that just is terrible,” McIlroy said.

He added: “It’s not the way a leader should act. There’s a sort of diplomacy that you
need to have, and I don’t think he’s showing that, especially in these times.”

Golf Digest magazine has said Trump has a “low single-digit handicap” and may be the
best golfer to occupy the White House.

But he has also been described by fellow players as “the world’s worst cheat at golf”
in Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, a 2019 book by former Sports
Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly, who has played with Trump himself.
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