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RandySF

(85,606 posts) Fri May 1, 2026, 10:49 PM 8 hrs ago

Trump urges PGA Tour to welcome back LIV rebels after Saudi funding dries up

Donald Trump has supported the reintroduction of LIV Golf players on to the PGA Tour after the league announced the withdrawal of funding by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).

The US president said he would love to see top golfers who defected to the LIV circuit playing regularly against the PGA Tour’s best as uncertainty engulfed the breakaway league after the PIF announcement.

Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, was asked if the PGA Tour should welcome back golfers who jumped ship to LIV, lured by massive contracts backed by PIF. “Well, I do,” he said. “I’d love to see LIV. But I do believe that all of the golfers should be playing – the great golfers – should be playing against each other. I want to see Rory [McIlroy] playing Bryson DeChambeau. I want to see big Jon Rahm play Scottie [Scheffler], who is so great.

“There’s something nice about all of the players playing together. Now they’ll all be accepted by the tour … they’ll all be back on tour and it’ll be great,” Trump added.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/01/donald-trump-urges-pga-tour-welcome-back-liv-rebels-golf

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Trump urges PGA Tour to welcome back LIV rebels after Saudi funding dries up (Original Post) RandySF 8 hrs ago OP

Probably the only thing he's spent his time thinking about dem4decades 8 hrs ago #1

DON'T forget about the ballroom vapor2 8 hrs ago #7

Chalk up another failure to tiny-T -misanthroptimist 8 hrs ago #2

I wish the PGA would say no thanks! Keep your blood money and go away!!! Choices have consequences!! Pisces 8 hrs ago #3

LIV...... Lovie777 8 hrs ago #4

He's now an actual billionaire thanks to corruption and grift. Marie Marie 7 hrs ago #11

Scabs Bmoboy 8 hrs ago #5

Of course he wants opportunists and traitors to avoid their just deserts, he sees himself in them. RockRaven 8 hrs ago #6

How long were they gone? 2 years? Bristlecone 8 hrs ago #8

who divided the pros, donny boy? rampartd 8 hrs ago #9

I have fond memories of the USFL Michigan Panthers. RandySF 8 hrs ago #10

dem4decades

(14,250 posts)

1. Probably the only thing he's spent his time thinking about

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 10:53 PM

8 hrs ago

vapor2

(4,793 posts)

7. DON'T forget about the ballroom

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #1)

Fri May 1, 2026, 10:58 PM

8 hrs ago

-misanthroptimist

(1,791 posts)

2. Chalk up another failure to tiny-T

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 10:55 PM

8 hrs ago

Pisces

(6,299 posts)

3. I wish the PGA would say no thanks! Keep your blood money and go away!!! Choices have consequences!!

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 10:55 PM

8 hrs ago

Lovie777

(23,434 posts)

4. LIV......

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 10:57 PM

8 hrs ago

Saudi funding dries up…….

Everything shithole touches turns to shit. His 1st presidency turned to shit, the 2nd one has already turned to shit and will be much more worse for the US and her people.

The dislike for him and the Republican Party is strong.

Marie Marie

(11,434 posts)

11. He's now an actual billionaire thanks to corruption and grift.

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #4)

Fri May 1, 2026, 11:35 PM

7 hrs ago

Let him pick up the tab to keep the LIV funded and functioning. The PGA should shun all the defectors and traitors who sold themselves to the Saudis for a buck.

Bmoboy

(657 posts)

5. Scabs

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 10:57 PM

8 hrs ago

Fuck them.

RockRaven

(19,659 posts)

6. Of course he wants opportunists and traitors to avoid their just deserts, he sees himself in them.

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Fri May 1, 2026, 10:57 PM

8 hrs ago

Bristlecone

(11,158 posts)

8. How long were they gone? 2 years?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 11:08 PM

8 hrs ago

They can come back after that same amount of time has expired upon the dissolution of LIV.

How’s that? Take some of their most precious commodity away. Time.

rampartd

(4,806 posts)

9. who divided the pros, donny boy?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri May 1, 2026, 11:09 PM

8 hrs ago

oh, that's right, as usual. you did.

did you get a trophy for killing the usfl as well?

RandySF

(85,606 posts)

10. I have fond memories of the USFL Michigan Panthers.

Reply to rampartd (Reply #9)

Fri May 1, 2026, 11:11 PM

8 hrs ago

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