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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Where is Donald Trump today? On the golf course | |
By Betsy Klein, CNN | |
Updated: | |
12:32 PM EDT, Mon September 1, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
President Donald Trump is just fine, he said in a message to followers | |
Sunday afternoon as he returned to the White House from a day at his | |
Virginia golf club. | |
“NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE,” he on Truth Social — a nod to the | |
swirl of weekend speculation about his wellbeing. | |
That capitalized missive was followed by a steady stream of social | |
media posts Sunday evening and Monday morning — on everything from | |
India tariffs, Covid vaccines and crime — before he returned to Trump | |
National Golf Club for Labor Day. | |
Trump made 26 public engagements last month — most recently, a | |
three-plus-hour Cabinet meeting last Tuesday where the president | |
fielded questions on topics from Taylor Swift’s engagement to global | |
conflicts. | |
So it was certainly unusual when, for three weekdays at the end of | |
August, Trump’s public schedule went uncharacteristically dark. | |
There were no events on his schedule last Wednesday, Thursday or | |
Friday, and the president spent his Labor Day weekend in Washington | |
also with no public appearances scheduled. The conspicuous absence lit | |
conspiratorial corners of the internet and group chats ablaze with | |
questions. | |
But on Saturday, he emerged, spotted by pool reporters in a white polo, | |
black pants, and signature red “Make America Great Again” hat on | |
the way to his Virginia golf club. Grandchildren Kai Trump and Spencer | |
Trump were also along for the ride. He returned to his club on Sunday | |
— posting an undated of himself seated in a golf cart during a | |
matchup with former football coach-turned-Barstool Sports personality | |
Jon Gruden — and again Monday. | |
The White House press office often boasts of Trump as the “most | |
accessible” president in history, tweaking his predecessor as they | |
highlight his significant engagements with the press. As questions | |
arose about the president’s activities and whereabouts, a White House | |
official said Friday he was holding standard policy and staff meetings. | |
He also sat for an hourlong interview with the conservative publication | |
Daily Caller. | |
“He’s very much alive!” Daily Caller White House correspondent | |
Reagan Reese said in a to social media previewing her interview – a | |
nod to intense conjecture amid the very online set. | |
During his first term, Trump, like his predecessors, took a summer | |
vacation. He spent extended periods at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club | |
in the month of August – 14 days in 2017, 15 in 2018, 14 in 2019, and | |
7 in 2020, during the Covid pandemic. | |
But the president has eschewed a lengthier respite this time around. He | |
has spent six weekends in Bedminster since Memorial Day, plus a weekend | |
at his Scotland golf property and 17 visits to his Northern Virginia | |
golf course, including this holiday weekend. | |
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the online rumor mill generated | |
intrigue amid broader concerns from the public about presidential | |
wellness. Trump, at 79, will be the oldest president in history at the | |
end of his term. And President Joe Biden was wracked with inquiries | |
about his fitness for office, eventually prompting his withdrawal from | |
his reelection campaign. | |
Images of Trump’s bruised hand prompted some speculation earlier this | |
week, something the president’s physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, | |
dismissed as “minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking | |
and the use of aspirin.” The White House in July that Trump had been | |
diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, after he was seen with | |
swelling in his legs. | |
Trump, Barbabella said at the time, “remains in excellent health.” | |
This story has been updated with additional details. | |
CNN’s Jenna Monnin contributed to this report. | |
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