President-elect Donald Trump roared off his Florida golf course on Friday proudly wearing a “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING” cap, one day after he was named Time magazine’s 2024 “Person of the Year.”
The incoming president was photographed waving to the onlookers from inside his motorcade while displaying the bold message, as he exited the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Trump, 78, had trekked to Manhattan on Thursday to ring the New York Stock Exchange bell and open the trading floor — an honor that coincided with Time’s influential award.
In the weeks since his 2024 election landslide win, however, he’s been spotted almost “every lunchtime” playing golf at his eponymous course — but usually dons his red “Make America Great Again” hat instead.
The soon-to-be 47th president took a break from his favorite sport in the final weeks of his campaign after he was targeted in an assassination attempt at the same club.
Ryan Wesley Routh lay in wait for hours in the bushes on the fenceline of the course on Sept. 15 with a loaded SKS semiautomatic rifle and camera set up to supposedly film the near-slaying.
Routh, 58, pointed the barrel of his firearm out of the makeshift sniper’s nest while Trump was at a nearby hole, but a Secret Service agent was able to spot him in time and fired off five rounds that caused the gunman to split.
He was later apprehended and indicted for the attempted assassination.
Trump hasn’t let the incident deter him from improving his swing, which he boasted to a President Biden during their June 27 debate had won him “two club championships.”
“You don’t want to ever be curtailed because of the crazy people out there,” Trump said of his golf obsession while at a Bitcoin bar in New York three days after the near-tragedy. “We’d let the Secret Service determine it.”
Secret Service agents — with the help of new technology — are constantly sweeping the club and his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort for threats.
In his post-win period, Trump has also been videotaped interacting warmly with patrons and their children at the club and hitting the links with his friends.
The once and future president even invited a girl to take a picture with him in his golf cart in November, complementing her on her hair.
Trump has also been snapped playing golf with his 18-year-old son Barron Trump and is known to challenge his granddaughter Kai Trump to highly competitive rounds as well.
